The Indonesian Federal Problem
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2847778 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lawrence S Finkelstein (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1951 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 284 |
| Publication date | 1951-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2753729 |
| OpenAlex | W2313194910 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
pRESSING day-to-day issues have submerged longer-range questions of form and structure of government since Indonesia's unitarian structure was instituted in August i950; yet, after a year of experience with the new system, the prospect of efforts at constitutional reform seems more likely. National elections, looking to the creation of a Constituent Assembly,' are being prepared,2 although they probably cannot be held before i952. Under the constitution, the Constituent Assembly, together with the Government, is to replace the existing provisional constitution with a permanent one. Although one might forecast the main directions of possible constitutional change, the present article will not attempt to do so. Indonesian leaders, by and large, have not given sufficient thought to the problems to provide any solid basis for advancing beyond what might be termed, at best, educated guesses. The following discussion will, therefore, be confined to a description and analysis of what the author considers to be the major constitutional and administrative problem facing the new government, namely, the problem of central-local relationships. Even with this limited objective, a word of caution is in order. For an outsider, it is no easy task to decide what are the standards by which Indonesian institutions should be measured. Should governmental forms be gauged only in terms of the existing stage of Indonesia's revolutionary struggle and the limited governmental experience of Indonesia's past? Are there, in short, any valid indigenous norms? Or should judgments be based on the constitutional and administrative experience of the older Western states? Indonesia, after all, professes to have a Western-style government. Its constitution and other institutions of government at the national level and, in large measure
Indonesian · Linguistics · Political science · Asian Studies and History · Indonesian Election Politics and Participation · Legal Studies and Policies · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1955 - 2003 (49) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |