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Instability

The first years of parliamentary democracy proved to be very unstable for Indonesia. Cabinets fell in rapid succession due to the sharp differences between the various political parties within the newly appointed parliament (Dewan Perwakilan Rakjat /DPR). There were severe disagreements concerning the future path of the Indonesian state, between nationalists who wanted a Secular state (led by Partai Nasional Indonesia first established by Sukarno), Islamists who wanted an Islamic state (led by the Masyumi Party), and communists who wanted a Communist state (led by the PKI, which only in 1951 again became allowed to operate). On the economic front, there was severe dissatisfaction with continuing economic domination by large Dutch corporations and the ethnic Chinese.