KESEIMBANGAN KEKUASAAN PRESIDEN DENGAN DEWAN PERWAKILAN RAKYAT DI INDONESIA

The President's extensive and dominant power in the State of the Republic Indonesia under the 1945 Constitution system requires the functioning of DPR (Peoples's Representatives Council) as a balancing institution and that of good application of its controlling function. Legally and constitutionally, the 1945 Constitution has placed the principle of balanced power between the President and the OPR in the framework of to perform government operation in Indonesia. although it has given the President more extensive power and fuJI responsibility. This is related with the application the principle of modern stale which emphasizes the government's function as operator towards welfare stale Therefore, in the framework of the existing s)'s!crn it is the DPR's role which is expected to perfonn as a balancing institution to represent and protect people's interest. Democratic government system requires the application of balanced power principle in the effon to protect people's right