REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - The final departure of Taufiq Kiemas, Chairman of Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), leaves a number of stories and memories for people who have been present during his lifetime.

Among the most memorable stories, there's a story with his wife, the former President of Indonesia, Megawati Soekarno Putri, who was also the daughter of the late first president, Soekarno. Dusi, Kiemas' sister, said that his brother wanted to marry Megawati since sixth grade at elementary school.

"I remember, when he said, 'I want to marry Megawati'. He was still at sixth grade at that time," Dusi said in Kiemas' funeral at Heroes Cemetery of Kalibata in Jakarta on Sunday.

Days, months and years go by. Kiemas and Megawati finally met in July 1971 in a visit to Soekarno's grave, Megawati's father, in Blitar, East Java.