INDONESIA: That Woman of Solo

And if ye are apprehensive that ye shall not deal fairly with orphans, then, of other women, who seem good in your eyes, marry but two, or three, or four, and if ye still fear that ye shall not act equitably, then one only. —Mohammed, in the Koran

The men of Indonesia might worry about the final count in the new recent nip-and-tuck election: the women were far more exercised about "that woman of Solo."

"That woman" is Heriati Hartini Suwondo, the lissome divorcee that President Soekarno secretly married over a year ago....

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