President Wahid' s administration proved a disaster. He was accused of arbitrarily reshuffling his cabinet, not sharing his authority with he vice president, not responding adequately to the separatist demand in Aceh and Irian Jaya and failing to contain the violence in the Molucas.
Defiant Wahid led the MPR to organize the meeting on July 21, 2001 to impeach him. His response was to block the MPR 's action by declaring a state of emergency. The Supreme Court ruled that none of Wahid's decreed had legal validity.
On July 23 , 2001 an emergency session of the MPR vote unanimously for the impeachment and for the elevation of vice president Sukarnoputri to be the president.