Word: fatmawati
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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Actually she was his third. Soekarno divorced wife No. 1 for childlessness, which Indonesian women agreed was good and sufficient cause. Then in 1942 he married a charming 18-year-old named Fatmawati, who bore him two boys and two girls. But last week the emancipated clubwomen of Indonesia learned of wife No. 3. Perwari, Indonesia's leading women's organization, sent out the word to other women's clubs: President Soekarno had secretly married a 3 2-year-old divorcee with five children last June; his wife Fatmawati had not even been consulted, as Moslem custom...