Asas tunggal Pancasila

[nb 1] On the speech delivered before the MPR RI plenary session on 16 August 1982, President Soeharto emphasised that all social and political forces must declare Pancasila as their only ideological basis.

II/MPR/1983 elucidating State Policy Guidelines (Garis-garis Besar Haluan Negara) which stated that political parties and the "Functional Groups" (official term for Golkar Party) must be the formidable political and social might that have Pancasila as their one and only ideology maintain and preserve the national ideology.

[3][nb 2] Two political parties at the time (PPP and PDI) as well as the Functional Groups became the first institution with an obligation to adhere to the single principle basis, per Law No.

Furthermore, at the NU Congress in 1984, the organisation issued a resolution affirming the final status of Pancasila, which they said merely a philosophical value and will not replace the religion, and the 1945 Constitution.

Abu Bakar Baasyir left Indonesia and stayed in Malaysia in a self-imposed exile for 17 years after being arrested for his rejection to the policy.