Seminar on 'Nawaksara'

Seminar on 'Nawaksara'

From Jayakarta

On March 31, 1997, the city media published a news item that
Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Hayono Isman was planning to
hold a seminar on Nawaksara, a speech delivered by Bung Karno in
April 1966, as an accountability of his government, which was
rejected by the Provisional People's Consultative Assembly.

The seminar would also be attended by Minister of Public
Housing Akbar Tandjung, Chairman of the Arief Rahman Hakim Group
Djusril Djusman and other 1966 exponents who were against Bung
Karno.

It is my hope that the seminar will benefit society and will
be constitutional in nature. I also suggest that the seminar be
attended by experts of various disciplines such as lawyers,
politicians, economists and other relevant scholars, so that they
can give an explanation to why Bung Karno's Nawaksara speech was
rejected by the Assembly.

What seems clear to me is that, at the time, people
intentionally tried to find fault in Bung Karno, and then was
placed under house arrest until he died. Was such an action
constitutional?

I hope that the seminar will help clarify Bung Karno's
activities as President, the father of our nation, the proclaimer
of independence, the founder of the state philosophy Pancasila,
and the uniting force of the Indonesian people.

MAS SOEBANDI

Jakarta