JUNE is Bung Karno month—an opportunity for us to reflect on things, both big and small, in the life of this national figure.

There is an event in his biography as told to Cindy Adams: when Bung Karno married for the first time, when he was Utari’s bridegroom. Utari was the daughter of H.O.S. Tjokroaminoto, the leader of Sarekat Islam who housed Sukarno in Surabaya from when he arrived age 14 as a student from Blitar to attend the Dutch juni