INDONESIAN FIRST LADY AT A GLANCE

Kristiani Herrawati Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is also known as Ani Bambang Yudhoyono. She has been the first lady of Indonesia since her husband, Dr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono became President of the Republic of Indonesia on October 20th 2004 and he has been reelected for a second term from 2009 until 2014.

She was born in Jogjakarta on July 6th, 1952 as the third child of seven in the family of General Sarwo Edhie Wibowo and Mrs. Sunarti Sri Hadiyah. She married Mr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on July 30, 1976 and thus has been living in the military environment for three generations: her father was an army General, her beloved husband is an army General and her oldest son is an army Captain

She is a mother of two sons. The oldest son is Captain Inf. Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, M.Sc. who was born in Bandung, August 10th, 1978.. He is married to Annisa Larasati Pohan and has a Masters degree in Strategic Defense from Nanyang University in Singapore, and a Masters degree in Public Administration from the prestigious Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Her second son is Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono, M.Sc. who was born in Bandung, November 24, 1980. He graduated with a Masters degree in International Political Economic from Nanyang University in Singapore and holds a Bachelors’ Degree in Commerce from Curtin Institute of Technology, Perth, Western Australia.

Ani is a Moslem by birth and has once performed the hajj and the umroh several times. She raised her family with the strong Islamic values of hardworking, discipline and honesty (“do the best and let Allah do the rest”).

EDUCATION and LANGUAGE SPOKEN:

Ani studied at the Medical School of Christian University of Indonesia (UKI) because she once dreamed to be a medical doctor. But then she had to leave in her third year to go to South Korea in order to accompany her father who was assigned to be the Indonesian Ambassador for South Korea.

However she later on continued her studies and in 1998 she graduated with a degree in Political Science from Open University in Indonesia (Universitas Terbuka). She speaks, writes and reads English well and has a passive understanding of Korean.

ORGANIZATION and ACTIVITIES:

As Indonesia’s First Lady she founded a social organization called SIKIB (Solidarity of the Wives of the United Indonesian Cabinet). Its main mission is to support the government’s social programs to achieve goals as outlined in the Millenium Development Goals. Under the umbrella of Indonesia Sejahtera or Indonesia Prosperous, SIKIB carries out programs in education, health, environment, creative economy, entrepreneurship and others. The programs are called Indonesia Pintar or Indonesia Smart (Smart Cars, Smart Motorcycles, Smart Houses, Smart Ships and Book Drops), Indonesia Sehat or Indonesia Healthy, Indonesia Hijau or Indonesia Green, Indonesia Kreatif or Indonesia Creative, and Indonesia Peduli or Indonesia Cares.

Indonesia Pintar or Indonesia Smart is a program aimed at educating and reaching out to people in the remote areas through effective learning methods and education facilities (e.g. books, audio visuals, educational play tools and computers). These methods are facilitated through the use of Mobil Pintar, Motor Pintar, Rumah Pintar and Kapal Pintar (Smart Cars, Smart Motor Bikes, Smart Houses, and Smart Ships).

Indonesia Sehat or Indonesia Healthy is aimed at socializing the importance of a healthy lifestyle by informing the public about the dangers of the rapidly spreading HIV/AIDS disease, and other epidemic illnesses such as malaria, dengue fever, and bird flu. This is done through the Mobil Sehat or Healthy Car program which was launched in 2008.

Indonesia Hijau or Indonesia Green is a program designed to minimize the effects of global warming through local wisdom. This program of planting and nurturing trees was initiated in December 2007. SIKIB has also held a National Conference on the “Role of Woman in Global Warming”.

Kreatif Indonesia or Indonesia Creative is a program supporting the government’s policies to increase job opportunities by creating labor intensive home industries. Examples are handicraft making, precious gems art and craft creations, and also food and culinary business activities.

Indonesia Peduli or Indonesia Cares is a social program aimed at providing assistance to people in need such as victims of natural disasters in Aceh, Yogyakarta, and other parts of Indonesia. It is also active in organizing social activities.

These programs show that the First Lady has a strong interest in the social welfare of the Indonesian people. She is also concerned with the problems that currently confront the people of the world today, especially women. She addresses these challenges through her active participation in a number of social organizations. In addition to her active role in SIKIB, she is the national patron of Indonesia Reading Foundation (MANCA), Women International Club (WIC) Jakarta, National Crafts Agency (DEKRANAS) and the White Ribbon Alliance Indonesia. She is also the main patron of the Family Welfare Movement (PKK), Mutumanikam Nusantara, Indonesia Zoo, and Kebaya Designers' Association (IPKI) (in 2009). The First Lady is also the honorary chairperson for the Association for the Eradication of Tuberculosis Indonesia (PPTI).

She is also a National Ambassador for HIV/AIDS, National Breastfeeding Campaign and Indonesian Child Protection Committee (KPAI), First Lady Cares for Autism and Thallassaemia Indonesia Icon (2010).

The First Lady’s social programs have been internationally recognized. She has spoken at UNESCO in 2010 about the Indonesia Sejahtera or Indonesia Prosperous program. As an active advocate for education and literacy, she was invited to speak at the UNESCO Regional Conference in Support of Global Literacy in Beijing (2007). As an avid environmentalist, she initiated the Indonesian Women’s Movement to Plant and Nurture Ten Million Trees with seven Indonesian women organizations on 1 December 2007. For this effort she was rewarded with a Certificate of Global Leadership from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). She has also given several keynote speeches on the role of women in climate change and entrepreneurship such as “Woman as the Driving Force to Fight Climate Change” in a side event at the UNFCCC in Bali, December 2007 and “ASEAN Women Green Entrepreneurship: The Role of Women in Economic Empowerment Towards ASEAN Inter-Community Development” at a side event of the 19th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits in Bali, November 2011.

The First Lady has also received a gold pin from Muhammad Yunus (Nobel laureate and founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh) at the Regional Microcredit Summit 2008 for her efforts in developing small and medium enterprises as well as Indonesian microcredit programs through PERKASSA program and Indonesia Creative.

Her hobbies are photography and gardening.

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