Legal provisions for optional referendums at national level

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/74258274/Direct-Democracy-in-Asia

http://www.kas.de/wf/doc/kas_21147-1522-1-30.pdf?110815050450

Direct Democracyin Asia: A ReferenceGuide to the Legislation and Practice (2005), page 93 on Indonesia: There is no mechanism for direct democracyin Indonesia current legislation. Indonesia practiced two referendums on WestPapua in 1969 on its joining Indonesia and on 1999 on the Independence of EastTimor.

Constitutionalism in SoutheastAsia (KAS, 2008)

... the 1983 MPR referendumdecree was then confirmed by Law No. 5 of 1985 on Referendum. Although thisstatute seemed to allow the possibility of amending the 1945 Constitution, itsvery difficult requirements, paradoxically, made amendment almost impossible.

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To reform the 1945 Constitution,therefore, in 1998, the People Consulative Assembly revoked the decree onreferendum. Pursuant to the current provision, Article 37 of the 2002Constitution, the mechanisms to amend the Constitution are: A proposal to amendthe Constitution may be placed on the agenda of a session of the PeopleConsultative Assembly...