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...other two best known are Fatmawati, whom he met in Sumatra in 1938, and Mme. Martini Suwondo, a young divorcee whom he married in 1954. Indonesians were scandalized by his marriage to Hartini, which, although legal under Islamic laws, defied the nation's custom of monogamy. They never accepted her as their First Lady, forcing Sukarno to send her to live in his summer palace at Bogor. Fatmawati, whom he has never divorced, lives quietly in a Djakarta suburb, rarely sees...
...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...
...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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