Dewi Sukarno

Dewi Sukarno (デヴィ・スカルノ, Devi Sukaruno), complete name Ratna Sari Dewi Sukarno (ラトナ・サリ・デヴィ・スカルノ, Ratona Sari Devi Sukaruno), born Naoko Nemoto (根本 七保子, Nemoto Naoko, born February 6, 1940), is a Japanese socialite and one of the wives of former Indonesian leader Sukarno. Naoko Nemoto first met the 57-year-old Sukarno in Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, when she was 19, during the then-Indonesian president was on a state visit to Japan. Prior to becoming Sukarno's wife, she was an art student and entertainer. There were rumors of her having worked as a bar hostess, but she has repeatedly denied this. Naoko married Sukarno in Indonesia in 1962, then Sukarno gave Naoko her Indonesian name Ratna Sari Dewi Soekarno; derived from Javanese-Sanskrit which...