Strengthening the Highest Authority of People's Consultative Assembly Determined In The 1945 Constitution of The Republic of Indonesia In Order to Strengthen The Constitutional Check and Balances System

Abstract

. The People's Consultative Assembly is one of the representative institutions that functions to determine and revise the 1945 constitution as well as to the structure and to lay off the president (post amendment) of the 1945 constitution. Regarding with the authority of the People's Consultative Assembly, then the Check and Balances System is the requirement of the presence of balance within the government system. The research used is Normative Juridical Law. Normative law research is a literary research towards secondary data with the analysis used in this research is qualitative analysis. The research result shows the reason causing the needs of adjustment towards the arrangement, position and the authority of the People's Consultative Assembly into an institution representing the people with two chambers (bicameral). One of them is the need for Indonesia today to start applying a check and balance system in order to improve the constitutional lives and to encourage democratization. With the existence of two chambered people's representative institutions, it is expected that this institution would be able to run its legislative and control functions better.