BIOGRAPHY ofSOEKARNO

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Sukarno (June 6, 1901 June 21, 1970) was the irst !resident o "ndonesia# $e hel%ed the &ountry win its inde%enden&e rom the 'etherlands and was !resident rom 19() to 1967, %residin* with mi+ed su&&ess o,er the &ountry-s tur.ulent transition to inde%enden&e# Sukarno was or&ed out o %ower .y one o his *enerals, Suharto, who ormally .e&ame !resident in /ar&h 1967

Background
0he son o a Ja,anese %rimary s&hool tea&her, an aristo&rat named 1aden Soekemi Sosrodihard2o and his Balinese wi e named "da 3yu 'yoman 1ai rom Bulelen* re*en&y, Sukarno was .orn as 4usno Sosrodihard2o in Blitar, 5ast Ja,a in the 6ut&h 5ast "ndies (now "ndonesia)# 7ollowin* Ja,anese &ustom, he was renamed a ter a &hildhood illness# $e was admitted into a 6ut&h8run s&hool as a &hild# 9hen his ather sent him to Sura.aya in 1916 to attend a se&ondary s&hool, he met 02okroaminoto, a uture nationalist# "n 1921 he .e*an to study at the Technische Hogeschool (0e&hni&al "nstitute) in Bandun*# $e studied &i,il en*ineerin* and o&used on ar&hite&ture#

3ty%i&ally, e,en amon* the &olony-s small edu&ated elite, Sukarno was luent in se,eral lan*ua*es# "n addition to the Ja,anese lan*ua*e o his &hildhood, he was a master o Sundanese and o "ndonesian, and es%e&ially stron* in 6ut&h# $e was also :uite &om orta.le in ;erman, 5n*lish, and 7ren&h, all o whi&h were tau*ht at his $BS# Sukarno on&e remarked that when he was studyin* in Sura.aya, he o ten sat .ehind the s&reen in mo,ie theaters readin* the 6ut&h su.titles in re,erse .e&ause the ront seats were only or elite 6ut&h %eo%le#

"n his studies, Sukarno was <intensely modern,= .oth in ar&hite&ture and in %oliti&s# Sukarno inter%reted these ideas in his dress, in his ur.an %lannin* or the &a%ital (e,entually Jakarta), and in his so&ialist %oliti&s, thou*h he did not e+tend his taste or modern art to %o% musi&> he had 4oes !lus im%risoned or their alle*edly de&adent lyri&s des%ite his re%utation or womanisin*# 7or Sukarno, modernity was .lind to ra&e, neat and 9estern in style, and anti8im%erialist#

Family

Sukarno o i&ially married ei*ht wi,es? #'amely @etari, "n**it ;arnasih, 7atmawati, $artini, 1atna Sari 6ewi Soekarno, $aryati, Aurike San*er, and 4artini /ano%%o # /e*awati Sukarno%utri, who ser,ed as the i th %resident o "ndonesia, is his dau*hter .y his wi e 7atmawati# $er youn*er .rother ;uruh Soekarno%utra (.orn 19)B) has inherited Sukarno-s artisti& .ent and is a *i ted &horeo*ra%her and son*writer, who made a mo,ie Untukmu, Indonesiaku (7or Aou, /y "ndonesia) a.out "ndonesian &ulture# $e is also a mem.er o the "ndonesian !arliament or /e*awati-s !6"8! %arty# $is si.lin*s ;untur Soekarno%utra, 1a&hmawati Soekarno%utri and Sukmawati Soekarno%utri ha,e all .een a&ti,e in %oliti&s#

Sukarno had a dau*hter named 4artika .y 6ewi Sukarno# "n 2006 4artika Sukarno married 7rits See*ers, the 'etherlands8.orn &hie e+e&uti,e o i&er o the Bar&lays ;lo.al 1etail and Commer&ial Bank#@ther o s%rin* in&lude 0au an and Bayu .y his wi e $artini, and a son named 0oto Suryawan Soekarno%utra (.orn 1967, in ;ermany), .y his wi e 4artini /ano%%o# !o%ular ladiesma*aDines su&h as Femina and Kartini re*ularly run eatures a.out newly dis&o,ered lookalike sons and dau*hters throu*hout the ar&hi%ela*o, who o ten mira&ulously disa%%ear when %ressed to take a 6'3 test .y the o i&ial Sukarno &hildren #

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