She is also the first Indonesian leader to be born after independence.
No one can be certain what the ailing, 76-year-old Indonesian leader will do if his family decides to fight.
But privately, many doubt that, no matter what the Indonesian leader does, they can afford to take the risk of cutting him off.
"He is not like other Indonesian leaders who prepared themselves for world exposure," the scholar and former student dissenter said.
Most Indonesian leaders obliged either by becoming 'neutral observers' or by actively cooperating.
The Indonesian leader seemed to acknowledge, however, that a problem exists.
Indonesian military leaders have been saying that the leftist threat is still real, and that Soviet-bloc agents may be behind it.
He had alerted Indonesian leaders that terrorists were at work, and could strike at anytime.
She was one of the wives of the late Indonesian leader Sukarno.
She was the country's first female President, and the first Indonesian leader born after independence.