The People's Consultative Assembly, the bicameral legislature of Indonesia, passed a series of resolutions of the People's Consultative Assembly () or TAP MPR throughout the 1960s, to the very last issued in 2003.
As between 1960 and 1971 no election for the MPR members happened, the assembly were formed in a provisional measure, known as the Provisional People's Consultative Assembly (), which issued TAP MPRs, though there were no difference between the resolutions issued by either by MPRS or MPR.
The beginning of Sukarno's Guided Democracy were marked with the return to the 1945 Constitution, replacing the parliamentary 1950 Provisional Constitution. With it came the formation of Provisional People's Consultative Assembly, which the 1945 constitution prescribed that it consisted of deputies of the House of Representatives, regional representatives (), and sectoral representatives (). Prior to this, in 1955, Indonesia held its first legislative election, and thus the 1955âÂÂ1960 members of the DPR were popularly elected (which at this point they were considered transitional in nature, until next election). While the PPCA at large served as the primary parliament of the Republic, the House of Representatives was to serve as Presdium of the same in the absence of the Assembly and acting in the fulfillment of the Assembly's legislative powers when it is in recess or not in session.
In March 1960, the DPR unexpectedly rejected President Sukarno's government budget plan. He then proceeded to dissolve the said House and replaced it with the Mutual Assistance House of Representatives (), Its members were no longer the previously elected deputies from 1955, but rather the president's appointees, who could be appointed or dismissed by the president's will.
The DPR-GR's deputies would form part of the PPCA when it officially met for its first session days in Bandung in November-December 1960 and began issuing Resolutions with the force of law.
On 3 July 1971, Indonesian government managed to hold a long-delayed legislative election which had been planned to follow the first election in 1955.
Two years after the election, between 12âÂÂ24 March 1973, the 920 members of the People's Consultative Assembly, which were composed of members of the People's Representative Council, representatives of the armed forces, as well as regional representatives, were able to held the first general session of the MPR in Jakarta, which proceeded to formally elect Suharto as President of Indonesia and Hamengkubuwono IX as Vice President of Indonesia. As the Speaker of the MPR for this session is Idham Chalid, by this time he also served as concurrent Speaker of the DPR. In total, eleven Resolutions were enacted during 1973 General Session.
The next MPR met in session was during the 1978 General Session of the MPR, formed as result of the 1977 election. Since then, MPR met at least once in every five years, with the speaker of the DPR also serving as the speaker of the MPR.
Sectoral representation to the Assembly was restored in 1984.
Under Resolution number I/MPR/2003, every MPR and MPRS resolutions enacted prior to this were reviewed in its material value and legal status. The MPR then grouped all 139 remaining resolutions into six categories, as follows:
Meanwhile under the following Resolution number II/MPR/2003 on the fifth amendment of the 1999 MPR Rules of Procedure, the assembly renounced its authority to issue further Resolutions and Broad Outlines of State Policy, and limited its authority on seven items, as follows:
On the 2004 General Session, the MPR heard its last presidential accountability speech. From 2004 onward, president and vice president were directly elected in a general election, and thus MPR lost its power to elect president and vice president, or to decide on a president's accountability. In addition, MPR lost its supremacy over other state institutions and its right as the sole executor of the people's sovereignty, and is also on equal footing as other state institutions, i.e. the President and the Supreme Court.
Under Article 2 and 3 of the Constitution and the 2014 Legislatures Act (), which later amended in 2014, 2018, and 2019, and supplemented by various other laws, authority of the MPR is limited to:
Meanwhile, the remaining MPR Resolution were still included within the official Indonesian hierarchy of legislations, only below the Constitution, but above Acts and Government Regulations in-lieu-of Acts.