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IL News 014/2013

Institut Leimena held a round table discussion on “Strategy For Citizens’s Engagement in Legislative Process” at the Institut Leimena’s headquarter in Jakarta, on September 20, 2013. The main theme in the discussion was the urgent need, along with the challenges and opportunities, for citizens’s involvement in the legislative process to produce high quality public policies that are consistent with the people’s aspiration and the principles of Pancasila (“Five Principles”, Indonesia’s ideology). Participants in the discussion include Leimena President Jakob Tobing, Parliamentary Legislative Body’s Chairman Ignatius Mulyono, Parliamentary Financial Committee Vice Chairman Yasonna Laoly, Trisakti University’s Constitutional and Laws Center’s Chairman Pataniari Siahaan, former Constitutional Court Judge Maruarar Siahaan, Pentacostal Churches Fellowship’s President Rev. Pudjo Abednego, and Leimena Chairman Viveka Nanda Leimena.

Citizens’s participation in the 2014 General Election and Presidential Election should be viewed as a way to build a mature and better quality democratic system and political life, and also to uphold rule of law. The aim shouldn’t be limited upon searching for a leadership figure per se. Leimena President Jakob Tobing raised this in his address on the roles of Indonesian Chinese churches as part of the Indonesia in facing the 2014 Elections, in the Retreat for the Executive Council of the Fellowship of Chinese Churches in Indonesia, at Seruni Hotel (Cisarua), on September 27, 2013.