Indonesian Government

==1950–present==
The Republic of Indonesia or commonly known as Indonesia is a democratic country that applies a presidential system and Pancasila is the soul of Indonesian democracy. Pancasila is the philosophic fundamentals of the state. Pancasila consists of five principles that are interrelated and inseparable, namely:
Pancasila (First Base).svg|1. The belief in one God (represented by a star).
Pancasila (Second Base).svg|2. A just and civilized humanism (represented by a chain).
Pancasila (Third Base).svg|3. Unity of Indonesia (represented by a Banyan tree).
Pancasila (Fourth Base).svg|4. Democratic citizenship lead by wise guidance born of representative consultation (represented by a head of Bull).
Pancasila (Fifth Base).svg|5. Social justice for the entire people of Indonesia (represented by rice grain/paddy and cotton).
Garuda, the disciple's carrier or vehicle (vahana) of Lord Vishnu, appears in many ancient Hindu-Buddhist temples of ancient Indonesia. Garuda symbolizes the virtue of knowledge, power, bravery, loyalty, and discipline. The Garuda clutches in its talons a scroll bearing the National Motto of Indonesia which is an Old Javanese stanza of the epic poem "Sutasoma" attributed to the 14th-century poet sage of the Javanese Majapahit Empire, Empu Tantular. The National Motto is Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, which means Unity in Diversity.
When Indonesia declared its independence on 17 August 1945, the country still used the coat of arms of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which used when the country was still called the Dutch East Indies from 1800 until the formation of the United States of Indonesia in 1949. Garuda Pancasila was designed by Sultan Hamid II from Pontianak, supervised by Sukarno, and was adopted as the national emblem on 11 February 1950.
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