Sukarno Heir Plans Return to Presidential Palace

From: The Washington Post | Date: February 4, 1999| Author: Keith B. Richburg | Copyright information

Megawati Sukarnoputri says she was in grade school when she realized that she lived a privileged life in the presidential palace -- as the daughter of Sukarno, Indonesia's founding father and first president.

"I knew only since elementary school exactly who I am," she recalled recently. "I knew I had a big house -- I didn't know it was a palace."

She remembers other children telling her she lived in the palace and running home to ask family members, "Where is the palace?" They re...

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