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Indonesia The Supreme Advisory Council and the State Audit Board
Two other constitutionally mandated quasi-independent
bodies
exist to support the executive and the government. The
Supreme
Advisory Council is mandated by Article 16 of the
constitution. A
forty-five-member group nominated by the DPR and appointed
by the
president, the council responds to any presidential
question
regarding affairs of state. It is organized into four
permanent
committees: political; economic, financial, and
industrial;
people's welfare; and defense and security. The council
was
chaired from 1988 to 1992 by General Mardean Panggabean, a
former
ABRI commander. The State Audit Board is specified in
Article 23
of the constitution to conduct official examinations of
the
government's finances. It reports to the DPR, which
approves the
government's budget requests. The chairman of the State
Audit
Board during the Fifth Development Cabinet was General
Muhammad
Jusuf, another former ABRI commander.
Data as of November 1992
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