Quick questions on Liberal democracy and its breakdown in Indonesia 1949-1957: HSC Modern History National Study

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What is unstable cabinets, 1950 to 1955?

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The defining feature of the liberal years was cabinet instability. No party held anything like a majority, so every government was a coalition that a single defection or scandal could topple. Seven cabinets governed in seven years:

What are the 1955 elections?

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After repeated delays, Indonesia held its first national elections in 1955: on 29 September for the parliament (DPR) and on 15 December for the Constituent Assembly (Konstituante) that was to write a permanent constitution. Turnout was high and the conduct broadly free and orderly - a genuine democratic achievement for a five-year-old state.

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