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Chairman of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR)  Bambang Soesatyo  provided five reasons for the creation of the “Forum for World Consultative Assembly” during an international conference in Bandung, West Java, on Tuesday.



"There are five reasons for the creation of the ‘Forum for World Consultative Assembly’ or other name we will agree upon," he said in his opening address at the congress at Merdeka Building in Bandung.



The congress is being held from October 24 to 26 2022



First, people's consultative assemblies, law-making assemblies or the like, and legislative institutions, which have great potential have not specifically been represented in the Parliamentary Union of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Member States (PUIC) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).



Meanwhile, Arab and African countries have a similar forum called the “Association of Senates, Shoora and Equivalent Councils in Africa and the Arab World (ASSECAA).”



Hence, after conducting a study and holding consultations and receiving support from many sides, MPR has taken the initiative to set up the forum whose name will be finalized during the international conference.



If the forum is agreed upon at the conference, MPR is ready to host the secretariat of the forum, he said.



He said humanitarian problems that occur in a country have the potential to affect other countries, directly or indirectly.



Moreover, the solidarity among OIC and PUIC member states is so strong that they need several channels to accommodate aspirations, not merely from existing institutions, in accordance with the characteristics of problems and the authority of the institutions, he said.



Second, every issue needs to be approached through the institutional cooperation formula, in accordance with the issues and characteristics or authority of institutions, including parliamentary institutions.



It is impossible for an institution to respond to and deal with all issues because each institution has limited capacity, he said.



The spectrum of humanitarian issues in OIC member states and other countries requires many more institutional elements, including parliaments, to cooperate and make the maximum use of their potential and authority.



That way they can contribute to resolving existing issues and collaborate to take maximum advantage of goodness for mankind, he said.



Third, cooperation among institutions at the international forum or institution must produce a strong institution for the institution's internal interests.



Cooperation within an international organization, which comprises state institutions, will eventually strengthen the institution.




"So, the establishment of the forum we are initiating—'Forum for World Consultative Assembly,’ law-making assembly or the like is part of efforts to become a partner or strengthen the function and role of PUIC," he said.



Fourth, cooperation among institutions within the international forum or institution will hopefully produce strategic recommendations that the institution or partner can follow up on in accordance with the function and duty of the institution in each member country.



Fifth, cooperation among institutions within the international forum or institution will hopefully strengthen the contribution of the long-standing international institution to resolving humanitarian problems in particular and global issues in general. (antaranews)