Diah Mutiara Sukmawati Sukarnoputri was born on 26 October 1951 and is the third daughter of Indonesia's founding president Sukarno and his wife Fatmawati.
14 Facts About Sukmawati Sukarnoputri
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On November 13,2008, Sukmawati Sukarnoputri was named as a suspect in a fake diploma used as a requirement for the 2009 Indonesian legislative election candidacy of a Member of the House of Representatives candidate from PNI Marhaenisme for the electoral district of Bali.
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Sukmawati Sukarnoputri used a photocopy of a diploma from SMA 3 Jakarta graduated in 1970, but it was not legalised.
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The school refused to legalise it because it stated that Sukmawati Sukarnoputri only attended school until second grade and did not attend school after marriage.
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Sukmawati Sukarnoputri was only named as a suspect and not detained in this discontinued case.
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In 2011, Sukmawati Sukarnoputri wrote a memoir about the 15 years she lived at the Merdeka Palace, called Creeping Coup d'Etat Mayjen Suharto.
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Sukmawati Sukarnoputri believes Suharto and other members of the military conducted a coup against Sukarno by using the Order of March 11,1966.
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Sukmawati Sukarnoputri said she cannot forgive Suharto for human rights violations that occurred in the aftermath of the coup.
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Sukmawati Sukarnoputri was married to Prince Sujiwa Kusuma of the Mangkenegara royal family of Solo, Central Java.
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Sukmawati Sukarnoputri defined the process as going back to her roots and described being influenced by her grandmother who was a Hindu.
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Sukmawati Sukarnoputri fled Indonesia in May 2017 when named a suspect in a pornography case.
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On 28 March 2018, Sukmawati Sukarnoputri recited a poem deemed offensive and blasphemous by some Muslims.
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Denny, who had in 2012 been jailed for extortion, claimed Sukmawati Sukarnoputri had belittled God by saying Mother Indonesia's ballad was more soothing than the Islamic call to prayer.
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Sukmawati Sukarnoputri converted to Hinduism from Islam on 2021 October 12 in a ritual called 'Sudhi Wadani'.