The Authority of the People’s Consultative Assembly and the Discourse of the Limited Amendment of the Constitution

Indonesia is a state of law and is based on popular sovereignty based on the 1945 Constitution, as determined in Article 1 paragraph (2) and paragraph (3). The People's Consultative Assembly is the executor of people's sovereignty. The shifting of the position of this institution from the highest institution to a higher institution also had an impact on the position of other institutions. This research aims to analyze the concept of limited changes in the Basic Law related to re-entering the State Outlines into the authority of the People's Consultative Assembly and its implications. This study uses a doctrinal (normative) legal approach. Primary legal material, namely the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia, Law Number 12 of 2011 as amended by Law Number 15 of 2019 concerning Formation of Legislation. Based on anasilis and discussion of the problem, the results of this study can be stated, namely: First, the conception of limited changes to the Constitution. Second, the consequence of the re-inclusion of the concept of compiling Outlines of State Policy as the territory of the People's Consultative Assembly's authority