Megawati Sukarnoputri

Megawati Sukarnoputri
Official portrait, 2001
5th President of Indonesia
In office 23 July 2001 – 20 October 2004
Vice President	Hamzah Haz
Preceded by	Abdurrahman Wahid
Succeeded by	Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
8th Vice President of Indonesia
In office 21 October 1999 – 23 July 2001
President	Abdurrahman Wahid
Preceded by	B. J. Habibie
Succeeded by	Hamzah Haz
Member of the People's Representative Council
In office 1 October 1999 – 21 October 1999
Succeeded by	Dwi Ria Latifa
Constituency	West Java
In office 1 October 1987 – 30 September 1997
Constituency	Central Java
1st Chairperson of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 February 1999
Preceded by	Political party established
5th Chairperson of the Indonesian Democratic Party
In office 22 January 1993 – 27 July 1996
Preceded by	Suryadi
Succeeded by	Suryadi
Government offices 1st Chairperson of BRIN Steering Committee Incumbent Assumed office 5 May 2021 Preceded by Position established 1st Chairperson of BPIP Steering Committee Incumbent Assumed office 28 February 2018 Preceded by Herself (as Head of UKP-PIP)
Personal details
Born	Diah Permata Megawati Setiawati Sukarnoputri (1947-01-23) 23 January 1947 (age 77) Djokjakarta, Indonesia
Political party	PDI-P
Other political affiliations	PDI (1986–1996)
Height	158 cm (5 ft 2 in)[2]
Spouses	Surindro Supjarso ​ ​ (m. 1968; died 1970)​ Hassan Gamal Ahmad Hassan ​ ​ (m. 1972; ann. 1972)​ Taufiq Kiemas ​ ​ (m. 1973; died 2013)​
Children	3, including Puan Maharani
Parents	Sukarno (father) Fatmawati (mother)
Relatives	Rukmini Sukarno (half-sister) Franklin Kline (brother-in-law)
Alma mater	Padjadjaran University (unfinished) University of Indonesia (unfinished) Mokpo National University (honorary doctorate)[1]
Occupation	Politician legislator
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Diah Permata Megawati Setiawati Sukarnoputri (Indonesian: [meɡawati sukarnɔputri] ^ⓘ; born 23 January 1947) is an Indonesian politician who served as the fifth president of Indonesia from 2001 to 2004. She previously served as the eighth vice president from 1999 to 2001.

Megawati Sukarnoputri is Indonesia's first and to date only female president^[3] and the fifth woman to lead a Muslim-majority country. She is also the first Indonesian president and as of 2023 the only vice president to be born after Indonesia proclaimed its independence in 1945. After serving as vice president to Abdurrahman Wahid, Megawati Sukarnoputri became president when Wahid was removed from office in 2001. She ran for re-election in the 2004 presidential election, but was defeated by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. She ran again in the 2009 presidential election, but Yudhoyono defeated her for a second time.

Megawati Sukarnoputri was instrumental in creating the Corruption Eradication Commission, an agency task to combatting corruption in Indonesia. She also set up a general election system for the first time, in which the Indonesian people can directly elect the president and vice president, in addition to electing candidates for the legislature. As a result, she was given the title "Mother of Upholding the Constitution".^[4]

She is the first and current leader of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), one of Indonesia's largest political parties. She is the eldest daughter of Indonesia's first president, Sukarno.