Diah Permata Megawati Setiawati Sukarnoputri (help·info) (born 23 January 1947), also known simply as Megawati, is an Indonesian politician, and leader of opposition party PDI-P.

Amien Rais (search), former head of Muhammadiyah, Indonesia's second-largest Islamic organization, had 14 percent. Hamzah Haz, who has served as Megawati's vice president, had 3 percent.

In a rare interview, Megawati Sukarnoputri, said she had advised the influential finance minister and her own party PDI-P's five ministers to stay put or risk destabilising the country.

JAKARTA: "If you run, you are shot. If you don't, you are beaten," a 20-year-old Acehnese man said about life in the region, ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Megawati Sukarnoputri, General Chairperson of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), has sharply criticized the conduct of the 2024 regional elections, asserting that ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia, July 4 -- Indonesians vote Monday in their first direct presidential election, with polls showing incumbent Megawati Sukarnoputri in danger of failing to make an expected ...

The international press endorsed the dismissal of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid and the investiture of Megawati Sukarnoputri, daughter of modern Indonesia’s founding leader Sukarno, as ...

The selection of Megawati Sukarnoputri as Indonesia's president offers hope for stability in the world's fourth-largest nation, a land racked by economic chaos and a constitutional crisis.

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- President Megawati Sukarnoputri, leader of the world's most populous Muslim country, stood before thousands of worshipers at the country's largest mosque last month and read ...

Indonesia’s Rachmawati Sukarnoputri in 2004, two years after entering politics as a rival of her sister, Megawati Sukarnoputri, who had been elected president. Bay Ismoya/Agence France-Presse ...