Fatmawati : a National Hero of Indonesia
Fatmawati Fatmawati is a National Hero of Indonesia (Indonesian: Pahlawan Nasional Indonesia). As the 1st Indonesian First Lady, She was the 3rd wife of Sukarno, the 1st president of Indonesia, and the mother of Indonesia's 1st female president, Megawati Sukarnoputri. She constructed the 1st flag flown by Indonesia. Fatmawati was born on 5 February 1923 in Bengkulu to Hasan Din and Chadijah. One of her ancestors was a princess of a Minangkabau kingdom, Sultanate of Inderapura. When she met Sukarno she was a teenager and he was married to a 53-year-old woman named Inggit. Unsurprisingly, Sukarno's wife was unwilling to release her husband but, after two years, Inggit agreed to a divorce. Sukarno rationalised the need for his new wife by stating his desire to have a child to carry on his name. In 1943 Fatmawati became the 3rd wife of Sukarno and the following year gave birth to his 1st child, a son. Sukarno named his child Guntur meaning thunder. In 1945 she was his wife whe...