1. Diah Permana Rachmawati Sukarnoputri was an Indonesian politician.
13 Facts About Rachmawati Sukarnoputri
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Rachmawati Sukarnoputri's father was Indonesia's founding president Sukarno and her elder sister is Megawati Sukarnoputri, who was Indonesia's fifth president.
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Rachmawati Sukarnoputri was largely raised by a foster mother from Surakarta.
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Rachmawati Sukarnoputri initially studied at Cikini, and completed her secondary education at St Ursula Catholic School.
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Rachmawati Sukarnoputri had intended to become a doctor but when she enrolled at the University of Indonesia in 1969 she opted to study law, and did not complete her degree.
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Rachmawati Sukarnoputri founded Universitas Bung Karno in 1983, as a follow-up to an initiative by the Sukarno Education Foundation she had founded in 1981.
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Rachmawati Sukarnoputri founded the Pioneers' Party in 2002, and the party contested the 2004 Indonesian legislative election, winning just 1 percent of votes and gaining three seats in the People's Representative Council.
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Rachmawati Sukarnoputri joined the Nasdem Party in 2012 and led its advisory board between 2013 and 2014, when she was removed due to her endorsement of Prabowo Subianto in the 2014 Indonesian presidential election.
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Rachmawati Sukarnoputri became a noted and aggressive critic of Joko Widodo's government.
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Rachmawati Sukarnoputri was arrested on 2 December 2016 for alleged treason, being accused of "intending to incite people to overthrow the legitimate government" during the December 2016 Jakarta protests.
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Rachmawati Sukarnoputri married her first husband, Martomo Pariaman Marzuki, her senior at Cikini, in 1969; they later divorced.
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Rachmawati Sukarnoputri died on 3 July 2021 at Jakarta's Gatot Soebroto Army Hospital, where she had been receiving treatment for COVID-19.
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Rachmawati Sukarnoputri was buried following COVID-19 protocols at Karet Bivak Cemetery.