TOTAL the story of Bung Karno’s wife is written in a book. Among others, Inggit, Kuantar To the Gate; Fatmawati, Small Notes with Bung Karno; Haryatie, Soekarno The Hidden Story; Hartini, Biography of Hartini Soekarno; Ratna Sari Dewi, Sakura in the Midst of Tempest; Yurike Sanger, Bung Karno’s Love Story with High School Children; Heldy Djafar, Heldy, Bung Karno’s Last Love.
In addition, the story of Bung Karno’s wife was also written in the book Flowers in Soekarno’s Heart Park, Bung Karno’s Love Story with his 9 Wives, written by Haris Priyatna. There is also Total Bung Karno by Roso Daras.
President Sukarno or Bung Karno was recorded to have 9 wives. Soekarno’s nine wives included Oetari, Inggit Garnasih, Fatmawati, Hartini, Ratna Sari Dewi, Haryati, Yurike Sanger, Kartini Manoppo and Heldy Djafar.
Of Bung Karno’s nine wives, six of them ended in divorce; Siti Oetari, Inggit Garnasih, Kartini Manoppo, Haryati, Yurike Sanger and Heldy Djafar.
When he was studying in Surabaya, Sukarno took a boarding house at HOS Cokroaminoto’s house. Siti Oetari, is there the eldest daughter of HOS Tjokroaminoto? Sukarno married Oetari in 1921 at the age of 21. While Oeru is 16 years old. Oetari recently lost her mother.
It turned out that Soekarno did not love Oetari. Oetari didn’t love him either. They don’t love each other. Their marriage is only for Corn. Soekarno finally divorced Oetari shortly after studying in Bandung.
“If I need to marry Oetari to lighten the burden of the person I worship (Tjokroaminoto), I will,” said Sukarno in Cindy Adams’ Bung Karno: People’s Tongue Connector.
Roso Daras, author of Total Bung Karno said, “The term is that they married hanging.”
Inggit Ganarsih was Bung Karno’s second wife. Sukarno and Inggit met in the city of Bandung. Sukarno moved to Bandung to study at the Technische Hoogeschool te Bandoeng (now the Bandung Institute of Technology/ITB) in 1921.
Inggit is also 13 years older, with the status of someone else’s wife (H Sanusi, Sarekat Islam politician). At a boarding house in Bandung owned by Inggit, love blossomed. They decided to marry on March 24, 1923.
Sukarno divorced Oetari and Inggit divorced H Sanusi.
They sailed the household ark for almost 20 years, finally separated in 1943 because Inggit did not want to be married because she had no children. They divorced with a divorce agreement, Sukarno bought a house in Bandung and provide for life.
“(But) Inggit never once asked, let alone demanded something that Sukarno promised in the divorce agreement, which was also witnessed and signed by Moh Hatta, Ki Hadjar Dewantara and KH Mas Mansoer in 1942,” wrote Ramadhan KH in Soekarno: Ku Antar to the Gate.
After divorcing from Inggit in 1943, Bung Karno knew Fatmawati who was also his adopted son while in Bengkulu. Fatma then married. Fatma is a young girl who is 22 years younger than Bung Karno. Bung Karno is 42 years old.
Fatmawati is Soekarno’s most famous wife, because she contributed to sewing the red and white Sang Saka flag for the implementation of the Proclamation.
Soekarno from Fatmawati has children, five children. They are Guntur Soekarnoputra, Megawati, Rachmawati Soekarnoputri, Sukmawati Soekarnoputri and Guruh Soekarnoputra.
Hartini’s fourth wife. They met at Prambanan Temple. They married in 1953. Hartini was 29 years old and a widow with five children.
From Soekarno, Hartini had two children, namely Taufan Soekarnoputra and Bayu Soekarnoputra. Hartini, a woman from Ponorogo who was born in 1924, first met Bung Karno in 1952 in her hometown, Salatiga, Central Java.
“Father immediately stated that he was very interested in me.” In fact, when they were told that they already had five children, a spontaneous comment appeared, “Really, you have five children and are still as beautiful as this?”
Love at first sight appeared instantly, and Bung Karno said, “I fell in love with him. And our love story was so romantic that people could write a separate book about it.”
At that time, Bung Karno was still married to Fatmawati, while Hartini was a housewife with five children.
In July 1953, Bung Karno married Hartini at the Cipanas Palace. Because Bung Karno could not attend, he acted as the marriage representative for the commander of the President’s personal guard, Mangil Martowidjojo.
“Hartini was one of Soekarno’s wives who remained faithful until Bung Karno’s death arrived. In Hartini’s lap, Bung Karno breathed his last at Gatot Subroto Hospital,” said Roso.
Bung Karno then married Haryati in Jakarta. Haryati is a dancer who is also a staff of the State Secretariat for the Arts. Sukarno then married the 23-year-old girl on May 21, 1963 with a simple celebration.
Haryati said in the book A Little Note with Bung Karno; Haryatie, that Bung Karno thought, was very wise if this marriage did not need to be announced to the general public.
“We both love each other, but face various difficulties. Besides, you already have three wives and he is now 63 years old, while I am only 23 years old.”
Sukarno chose to divorce her in 1966. “My divorce from you is because we don’t seem to be ‘fit’ for each other,” Sukarno wrote in his divorce letter quoted by Reni Nuryanti in Women in Sukarno’s Life.
Bung Karno’s next wife was Ratnasari Dewi. In the book My Friend the Dictator, he said, “I was introduced to you at the Imperial Hotel Tokyo by business associates from Japan”. The first meeting made a deep impression. Not long after, Bung Karno invited him to Jakarta, for a two-week excursion.
The visit ended with a marriage in early March 1962, after Naoko Nemoto changed his religion and Bung Karno chose the name, Ratnasari Dewi.
But the marriage took its toll. Naoko’s mother, a widow, is shocked and immediately dies when she hears that her daughter is marrying a foreigner. Only 26 hours later, Yaso, Naoko’s brother, committed suicide. “And I was so alone. I had lost my whole family.”
“Given the unfavorable situation, taking a stranger as a new wife, then for some time our marriage was hidden. I felt very tormented, having to always be alone and hiding at home. The only joy, you are very attentive to all kinds of my needs. my cigarettes, Father faithfully brought fruit,” he explained.
Bung Karno’s adventure is not over. He fell in love with a model and former flight attendant. Her name is Kartini Manoppo from Bolaang Mongondow, North Sulawesi, who is one of the models for Basoeki Abdullah’s painting. After being asked who the model was and the address, Sukarno approached Kartini.
“Kartini, who became a flight attendant for Garuda, was then asked to fly with President Sukarno every time President Sukarno went abroad,” said Peter Kasenda in Bung Karno: Commander of the Revolution. Deadly seduction.
They married not officially, but only in an unregistered marriage in 1959.
“The family doesn’t approve. It is forbidden for a respected family to have his favorite daughter become the fifth wife even though he is a president. That’s why I’m not officially married to Bung Karno,” Kartini recalled in Bung Karno’s book! The Gone of a Lover, My Husband and My Pride.
However, after the change in the political situation after the 1965 tragedy, Sukarno asked Kartini to “save” herself to Europe. “Kartini was asked to go to Europe for their safety. Bung Karno didn’t want Kartini, who was pregnant, something had happened in Indonesia,” said Roso.
In Nurnberg, Germany on August 17, 1966, Kartini gave birth to a son named Bung Karno, Totok Surjawan. Two years later the two decided to separate.
Then Bung Karno’s love story with high school students, Bung Karno knew Yurike when the girl was still a member of the Bhinneka Tunggal Ika Front, at a state event in 1963. He fell in love, and decided to marry on August 6, 1964.
Yurike had an increasingly difficult time meeting her husband after the 1965 tragedy. Especially after Bung Karno started to get sick. One day Yurike was able to visit her husband at Wisma Yaso, Bung Karno made a request that pierced his heart. Yurike was asked to divorce for Yurike’s own future. The request was initially refused by the young wife.
“I was forced to comply with his request. We divorced amicably (in 1967). It’s really touching because we still love each other. We separated when we were in a united meeting,” recalls Yurike in Bung Karno’s Love with High School Children: A Biography of President Sukarno’s Love with Yurike Sanger by Kadjat Adra’i.
Bung Karno’s last wife or the 9th was Heldy Djafar. He is a member of the Bhinneka Tunggal Ika Front, which raises the heritage flag. Bung Karno proposed to her and married her on June 11, 1966 at the Palace, at Wisma Negara to be exact.
Their marriage only lasted two years. Apart from being impeached, Bung Karno began to get sick. To be able to meet, you have to be at Yurike’s house, on Jalan Cipinang Cempedak, Polonia, East Jakarta.
Until one day, Heldy asked permission to stay away from Sukarno. “Mas, I’m sorry, if I may stay away from Mas to escape. The current conditions and atmosphere really hurt me. Can’t go on like this. You have to meet at someone else’s house,” she whispered in Heldy: Bung Karno’s Last Love by Ully Hermono and Peter Kasenda.
Those words imply Heldy asking for a divorce. However, Sukarno refused, who did not want to separate. Over time, their status is increasingly unclear. It is said that the wife is difficult, not even divorced. Finally, Heldy accepted Gusti Soeriansjah’s proposal on June 19, 1968.
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