By 1957, President Sukarno had begun to introduce the concept of Guided Democracy to his rhetoric in response to his disenchantment with the Parliamentary Democracy approach which Indonesia had adopted since November 1945.
År 1957, hade president Sukarno börjat införa begreppet vägledd demokrati i sin retorik som svar på hans besvikelse över den parlamentarisk demokrati-strategi som Indonesien hade tillämpat sedan november 1945.