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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said, there are five four times the change in the nature of the Act of 1945 as the state constitution.

"First, reducing presidential powers, both tenure and other powers who had much to do unilaterally," Yudhoyono said at the ceremony today at the House Constitution Birthday MPR / DPR, Senayan, Jakarta, Thursday, August 18, 2011

Yudhoyono said the president's powers undergone many changes in the '45 amendment to the Constitution. "There is a correction, ie streamline, disarm, and reduce the power of the President," he said.

Secondly, Yudhoyono said, the purpose of the amendment want to turn the checks and balances which he said affects the spirits of democracy.

"Third, develop a new state completeness. As a result, emerging of new institutions that had not been there, "said SBY.

The nature of the fourth, SBY continued, strengthening the rights of the people, especially related to Human Rights. "There are at least 10 articles about it," said SBY

Fifth, said SBY, '45 Constitution changes made ​​to clarify the provisions that supposedly can be interpreted differently. "There should not be articles that are multiple interpretations," he added.

Yudhoyono noted, the 1945 has four times the change. "We've adopted the Constitution of RIS, the Constitution while, then through a Presidential Decree dated July 5, 1959, we returned to the 1945 Constitution," he said. A few decades later, he said, when Indonesia experienced a dramatic change in the form of national reform, "These people go back to change the 1945 Constitution.