Talk:Regional Representative Council

Insignia has the wrong color
Just found out from DPD website, the insignia has the wrong color. So I made the new one with the proper color. The file is already in commons. Changing it now. barkahyusuf (talk) 23:28, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

on the statement "a third chamber"
In the article there is a statement Together with the People's Representative Council, it makes up a third chamber, the People's Consultative Assembly

According to the 1945 Consitution (3rd Amendment), Article 2, MPR (People's Consultative Assembly) is simply a collective body of DPR and DPD, not a third chamber.

Pasal 2 Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat terdiri atas anggota Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat dan Anggota Dewan Perwakilan Daerah yang dipilih melalui pemilihan umum dan diatur lebih lanjut dengan undang-undang.

more or less tranlated as

Article 2 People's Consultative Assembly consists of members of People's Representative Council and members of Regional Representative Council which are elected through General Election and further regulated through Acts.

I think the statement (and the other one at the section Powers and Structure) should be amended. Logically speaking, if MPR is a third chamber, then the Legislative body of Indonesia would tricameral (three chambers), and it is not. By analogy, the United States Congress is the collective body of US Senate and US House of Representatives: the Senate is a chamber and the House is another chamber. Therefore, the US Congress is called bicameral (two chambers). The US Congress is not a third chamber, and the MPR (People's Consultative Assembly) is not either. The main difference in the leadership is that MPR members (i.e. members of both DPR and DPD) as collective body elect leadership of the the MPR (a chairperson and vice-chairpersons), aside from the leadership of each of the chambers; while US Congress members do not elect collective leadership.

Voters don't know the DPD candidates
Analysis at Bancki (talk) 14:38, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
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Membership
Membership section should be updated ("although many candidates in the April 2004 election had links to the parties represented in the People's Representative Council") — Preceding unsigned comment added by 36.81.49.252 (talk) 02:45, 14 July 2019 (UTC)