TV celebrity Dewi Sukarno, the Tokyo-born widow of the first president of Indonesia, will run in the Upper House election this summer on an animal welfare platform.

Suharto seized power from Sukarno in 1965-66 and ruled with an iron fist for another three decades. "I don't want to lash out at a dead man but I cannot forgive Suharto," Ratna Sari Dewi Sukarno ...

There, at the round table, was President Sukarno, glaring nervously around him. There was his charming young Japanese-born wife, Ratna Sari Dewi, the hostess with the mostest in Indonesia.