Megawati Brief Biography

Megawati is Soekarno's second child, the first President of the Republic of Indonesia, from Soekarno's wife, Fatmawati. Megawati herself grew up in a palace atmosphere because at that time Soekarno was serving as President of the Republic of Indonesia. Megawati, whose full name is Megawati Soekarno Putri, was born in Yogyakarta on Thursday, January 23, 1947. Megawati studied at Padjadjaran University, Bandung, West Java, majoring in Agriculture and at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Indonesia, although she did not graduated.

Mega's first husband was an Air Force Pilot named Surindro Supjarso who died in a plane crash. Surindro leaves two young children. Then Mega married a man from Egypt who apparently didn't last long. Only then did Mega marry Taufiq Kiemas, who lasted until Taufiq died. Since becoming a student, Mega has been involved in politics through GMNI. In 1986, Mega became the deputy of the PDI Central Jakarta Branch, in 1993, he was elected general chairman of the PDI.

The PDI congress in Medan in 1996 decided to replace Mega with Soerjadi as PDI general chairman. Mega himself acknowledged the results. In fact, until the 27 July incident that killed several Megawati supporters when Soerjadi's supporters tried to seize the PDI DPP office on Jl. Diponegoro from the hands of Mega supporters. Not only that, several activists were also detained and imprisoned because of the riots.

The attack was brought to justice by Mega although the attempt failed in court. Eventually, the PDI split into two, between Mega's and Soerjadi's camps. In 1999, Mega's PDI camp changed its name to PDI-P, which won the general election. The 1999 general assembly finally decided Gus dur as President and Mega as his deputy. Two years later, July 23, 2001, the mandate of the MPR RI that decided Gus Dur as President of the Republic of Indonesia was revoked, Mega finally stepped forward to replace Gus Dur as President. Mega's reign had to end in 2004 when elections were held again. At that time, Susili Bambang Yudhoyono, a former Coordinating Minister during the Megawati administration, was finally elected President of the Republic of Indonesia.

Career

President of the Republic for the period 2001-2004

Deputy Chairman of the PDI Central Jakarta branch, 1986

Chairman of the PDI, 1993

Awards

Priyardarshni Award from Priyadarshni Academy Institute, Mumbai, India

Doctor Honoris Causa from Waseda University.

Reference

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