Child of the Revolution
Megawati was born and grew up in a time of great tension, an introvert who has begun to open up.
June 30, 2009
SHE tries to cast her memories back to an era 60 years ago, when she was still 2 years old and lived at Kali Code in Yogyakarta. But her memories only go so far. Megawati Soekarnoputri has only incomplete stories about that period in her past. It was in February 1949, when Sukarno, Megawati’s father, was exiled to remote Bangka Island by the Dutch. Together with her mother Fatmawati, Megawati lived in a cramped house with a door and broken wind
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