Word: hartini
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...Sukarno seemed to be treating his latest dilemma as airily as those of the past. He chucked schoolgirls under the chin, pursed his lips over the prophecies of his latest favorite soothsayer ("A great bomb will drop in August! There will be trouble everywhere"). His wife, Hartini, gave birth to a son at the presidential summer palace 35 miles south of Djakarta, making Sukarno a father for the seventh time. Because his own Nationalist Party was rapidly losing touch with the masses, Sukarno has leaned increasingly on the Communists. He admires their dynamic ability to organize monster demonstrations with...
...That woman" is Heriati Hartini Suwondo, the lissome divorcee that President Soekarno secretly married over a year ago. The women had not minded when Soekarno divorced his first wife for cause-childlessness-and took a new wife, Fatmawati, in 1942. Fatmawati bore him two boys and two girls, and took her place as the nation's First Lady. But Hartini was something else again...
Soekarno met Hartini in 1953 during a ceremonial visit to Solo, in Central Java. Long before, according to the outraged ladies, Hartini had been only intermittently attentive to her husband and five children. In the months that followed, Hartini was rarely at home, and Indonesian society clattered with talk of the President's clandestine romance. A year ago, a leading women's organization circulated a letter to women's clubs charging that Soekarno had married his girl. Only then did Soekarno admit that he had taken Hartini as a second wife in June 1954, and claimed that...
Even then the women might have subsided if Hartini had been content to accept the modest status of second wife. But she briskly moved her whole Solo household and her five children into Bogor Palace, began to entertain old friends, receive officials and carry on for all the world like Indonesia's First Lady, while Fatmawati shrank into the background. Whenever Soekarno traveled, Hartini traveled with...
...protest, the women organized deliberate snubs. During the recent election campaign, the women sent delegations to greet Soekarno. But when Hartini stepped down from the plane, the delegation would turn and march off. They waited on officials, demanding that they snub her. To one irate delegation, Premier Harahap explained that on one occasion he had intended only to shake hands with the President. But Hartini determinedly went up to him with outstretched hand. "What could I do but accept her hand!" bleated Harahap...