Jokowi in Singapore for son's graduation: Other leaders whose children studied ...

SINGAPORE - Indonesian President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo flew to Singapore on Friday, to attend his youngest son's graduation ceremony.

Kaesang Pangarep, 19, who completed his international baccalaureate, studied at ACS International Singapore.

Mr Joko's elder son Gibran Rakabuming, 27, also spent some years at the Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS).

He now runs a catering and wedding planning business in their hometown Solo.

Mr Joko is not the only Indonesian leader to have sent his children to study here.

Here are some of leaders whose children went to Singapore schools.

1. Both of former Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's sons attended graduate school at the National Technological University (NTU).

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) president Bertil Andersson (left) presenting Major Augus Harimurti Yudhoyono (centre) with the Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni award on 12 Oct 2013. With them is Mr Lawrence Wong, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth and Second Minister for Communications and Information. -- ST FILE PHOTO: NG SOR LUAN

His elder son, Major Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, 36, graduated from the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies with a master's degree in strategic studies in 2006.

Major Agus is the chief of operations at the Army Strategic Reserve Command's (Kostrad) 17th Airborne Brigade, and helped start the Indonesian Defence University.

Mr Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono son of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, was among the graduates at Nanyang Technological University's convocation on 23 July 2007. His mother, Mrs Ani Yudhoyono, was with him. -- ST FILE PHOTO: ASHLEIGH SIM

His brother and politician Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono, 33, also graduated from NTU with a master's of science in International Political Economy in 2007.

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe (second from right) left Raffles City Convention Centre a proud father, after attending the graduation of his only daughter, Bona (centre), with his wife Grace (right) in Nov 2013. -- ST FILE PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG

2. Bona, 25, daughter of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, graduated last year with a master's degree after completing the MDIS-University of Wales programme.

Her 90-year-old father, who has ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist since 1980, attended Bona's graduation with his wife Grace.

Mr Loro Horta (left), son of then Timor Leste Prime Minister, and Mr Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, son of then Indonesian President receiving their scrolls at the NTU convocation ceremony in July 2006. -- ST FILE PHOTO: JOYCE FANG

3. Loro Horta, son of East Timor's second Prime Minister, topped his Strategic Studies class in 2006 and received a gold medal from the then Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies. The school was renamed the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in 2007. He also received a book prize for best dissertation.

His father, Nobel Peace laureate Jose Ramos-Horta, was Prime Minister of East Timor from 2006 to 2012.

4. In that same 2006 cohort was Nguyen Minh An, 33, son of Vietnam's then President Nguyen Minh Triet. He graduated with a master's in business administration. Mr Nguyen Minh Triet was president of Vietnam from 2006 to 2011.

5. Some royalty have also attended Singapore schools.

Prince Azim (left), the second son of the Sultan of Brunei, met Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Teo Chee Hean on 15 November 2011, at the start of a four-day visit. The prince was here to share ideas and learn about youth development programmes. -- PHOTO: ZAOBAO FILE

Prince Haji Abdul Azim, 32, second son of Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, is an alumnus of Raffles Institution and Rosyth Primary School. He is third in line to the throne.

Meanwhile, Prince Sisowath Chivannariddh of Cambodia, grandson of King Norodom Sihanouk, graduated from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in 2004, according to a school publication.

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