Do you know the first Indonesian 'First Lady'? And do you know the person who sewed the Flag of Indonesia for the first time?? She is Ibu Fatmawati (Miss Fatmawati). Here they are the brief Biography of Miss Fatmawati. Hope you Enjoy it!!
Fatmawati (5 February 1923 – 14 May 1980)is a National Hero of Indonesia (Indonesian:
Pahlawan Nasional Indonesia). As the first Indonesian First Lady, She was the third wife of Sukarno, the first president of Indonesia, and the mother of Indonesia's first female president, Megawati Sukarnoputri. She constructed the first flag flown by Indonesia.
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| Fatmawati with her 5 children |
Fatmawati was born on 5 February 1923 in Bengkulu to Hasan Din and Chadijah.
One of her ancestors was a princess of a Minangkabau kingdom, Sultanate of Inderapura.
When she met Sukarno she was a teenager and he was married to a
53-year-old woman named Inggit. Unsurprisingly, Sukarno's wife was
unwilling to release her husband but, after two years, Inggit agreed to a
divorce. Sukarno rationalised the need for his new wife by stating his
desire to have a child to carry on his name.
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| Bengkulu City in Sumatra, Indonesia |
In 1943 Fatmawati became the third wife of Sukarno and the following year gave birth to his first child, a son. Sukarno named his child Guntur
meaning thunder. In 1945 she was his wife when Indonesia declared
independence. The flag of the new country was sewn by Fatmawati, and the same flag was re-flown every year until 1967. She was not his
first wife, as he had married several times before. However all the
previous wives had been divorced in line with State law. Fatmawati was
therefore his only wife at that.
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| Karet Bivak Cemetery, Jakarta |
Fatmawati died of a heart attack on 14 May 1980 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on her way back to Jakarta from an umra in Mecca.She is buried in Karet Bivak Cemetery, Central Jakarta.
Source :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatmawati
Hopefully there forever peace for you, Miss Fatmawati
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| Quotes from Mr. Soekarno with Miss Fatmawati |
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