Sukmawati Soekarnoputri

Diah Mutiara Sukmawati Sukarnoputri (born 26 October 1951) is the third daughter of Indonesia’s founding president Sukarno and his wife Fatmawati. Sukmawati is the younger sister of former Indonesian president Megawati Sukarnoputri and politician Rachmawati Sukarnoputri. Education Sukmawati attended elementary and junior high school at Sekolah Rakyat (SR) Cikini in Jakarta, graduating in 1967. In 1969, she graduated from State Senior High School 3 Teladan. She attended the Dance Academy of the Jakarta Arts Education Institute (LPKJ) from 1970–1974. In 2003, she enrolled as a student of the Department of International Relations (HI) in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (Fisip) at Jakarta’s Bung Karno University. Political career In 1998, following the fall of Suharto, she revived the Indonesian National Party (PNI), which was renamed PNI Supeni (or Soepeni) and competed in Indonesia’s 1999 general election, winning only 0.36% of the vote. Being ineligible to contest future elections because of its poor performance, the party changed its name to PNI Marhaenisme in 2002 and Sukmawati was appointed chairwoman. The party received 0.81% of votes in the 2004 general election, winning just one seat in parliament. In the 2009 election, the party won just 0.3% and lost its only seat.