Wednesday 25 September 2013

Guruh Sukarnoputra

Guruh Sukarnoputra

Guruh Sukarnoputra
Guruh Sukarnoputra
Muhammad Guruh Irianto Sukarnoputra is a member of Indonesia's People's Representative Council and an artist. He is the youngest son of Indonesia's 1st president, Sukarno with his 3rd wife, Fatmawati.
Guruh attended elementary and high school in Jakarta. He then studied at the Archeology Faculty at the University of Amsterdam, graduating in 1976. Rather than following in his sister Megawati Sukarnoputri's footsteps into politics, he chose a career in the arts, and to date has produced over one hundred choreographic works and written popular Indonesian songs. In 1991 he was awarded the Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.
He recorded an album
Chrisye.		called Guruh Gipsy in 1977 with
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He entered politics in 1992, becoming a member of the Indonesian legislature, the People's Representative Council, representing the Indonesian Democratic Party. When the PDI split following the 1996 party congress in Medan, he joined the breakaway Indonesian Democratic Party â€" Struggle. He was reelected under the banner of the new party in the 1999 Indonesian legislative election and was again re-elected in 2004. He currently represents the regency of Blitar, East Java.
He has continued to apply his arts by producing artistic performances, such as the opening ceremony of the 2000 Indonesian National Games in Surabaya.
He married an Uzbekistani-born Azeri, Guseynova Sabina Padmavati, 26 years his junior, on 20 September 2002 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

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