UN General Assembly
1957

181. The experience of other countries vividly teaches us that a first or second secret ballot as the attribute of parliamentary democracy does not by itself necessarily constitute the establishment of a democracy serving the interest of all the people. Parliamentary government must succeed in fully satisfying the needs of the people, lest it succumb to the attraction of dictatorship, in whatever form. This is a lesson we have taken to heart. And before it was too late, the Indonesian people themselves gave the impetus for correcting the existing shortcomings in order to safeguard the democratic system to which we had pledged our adherence as one of the principal instruments of our national life.