In 1967, after her husband’s death, President Sukarno’s mother, Siti Oetari, moved to live in Indonesia. Sukarno had been deposed in a military coup the year before, and his mother had been living in exile in Beijing. Siti Oetari decided to move back to Indonesia to be with her son, who was living in a remote area of Java.
Sukarno’s mother was an important figure in his life. She had raised him after his father died, and she had always …