Journal of Indonesian Legal Studies
Vol 1 No 1 (2016): The Establishment of Indonesian Legal Concept

Role of the Regional Representatives Council on Bicameral Parliament System

Alkadri, Riska (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
15 Aug 2017

Abstract

After third amendment of the Constitution of 1945 (UUD 1945), the Regional Representatives Council (DPD) has been formulated. The amendment directly changed the parliamentary system in Indonesia, from unicameral into bicameral. The authorities of DPD in bicameral system still not clear enough. Although it is stipulated on Article 22D of UUD 1945, the authorities is still limited if compared with House of Representatives (DPR). This paper would discuss and examine the role of regional representative council as a second chamber from representative board in Indonesian. The paper would distinguish beside the authorities also the mechanism applied by DPD and DPR.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jils

Publisher

Subject

Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice

Description

LEGAL scholars have been discussing two important roles of law: social control and social engineering. As a social control, law is designed and introduced to control the behaviours of society members in accordance with particular values and norms agreed upon by the community. In this context, the ...