Megawati visits father's grave

Megawati visits father's grave

JAKARTA: President Megawati Soekarnoputri visited on Thursday
the grave of her father, the late president Sukarno, in Blitar
regency, East Java.

Along with her husband, Taufik Kiemas, and their children, M
Ramadhana and Puan Maharani, Megawati laid flowers on the grave.
A 45-minute prayer followed.

The first family's visit to the grave was closed to
journalists.

It was a private visit, Blitar Mayor Djarot Syaiful Hidayat
explained to reporters.

"The visit is nothing out of the usual," he said.

Megawati visited her father's grave three months ago, several
days after the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) named her as
president, replacing Abdurrahman Wahid.

Making a devotional visit to the graves of family members is a
tradition in predominantly Muslim Indonesia, prior to the fasting
month of Ramadhan.--Antara