Constitutional Assembly of Indonesia

Constitutional Assembly

*Konstituante*
Constitutional Assembly ; Konstituante
Type
Type	Constituent assembly
History
Established	9 November 1956
Disbanded	5 July 1959
Leadership
Speaker	Wilopo (PNI)
Deputy Speaker	Prawoto Mangkusasmito (Masyumi)
Deputy Speaker	Johannes Leimena (Parkindo)
Deputy Speaker	Fathurrahman Kafrawi (NU)
Deputy Speaker	Sakirman (PKI)
Deputy Speaker	Ratu Aminah Hidayat (IPKI)
Elections
First election	15 December 1955
Meeting place
	Constitutional Assembly Building, Bandung

The Constitutional Assembly (Indonesian: Konstituante) was a body elected in 1955 to draw up a permanent constitution for the Republic of Indonesia. It sat between 10 November 1956 and 2 July 1959. It was dissolved by then President Sukarno in a decree issued on 5 July 1959 which reimposed the 1945 Constitution.