Word: heriati
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...years following the Revolution." Enjoys painting, good conversation, the company of pretty women. Divorced his first wife in 1942 for childlessness and married pretty, 18-year-old Fatmawati, who bore him two boys, three girls. In 1954 he took to wife lissome, 32-year-old Divorcée Heriati, and Indonesian women who had adored Sukarno turned away in outrage. Though Mohammedans are permitted four wives, emancipation-bound Indonesian women call Sukarno a "bigamist," sniff at Heriati as "That Woman," idolize patient Wife No. 2 (who is suing for divorce...
...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...
...organizations jammed into a Jakarta living room to argue for four hours about what was to be done. They finally decided to write letters to the Cabinet and Parliament. As for 53-year-old President Soekarno, he merely issued a statement confirming his marriage to his new wife, Heriati Hartini Suwondo. Soekarno kept her prudently out of sight, though those who knew said she was a brown-eyed, black-haired Javanese beauty...
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