Ani Yudhoyono, Indonesia’s former first lady, dies aged 66 after being treated for cancer

Singapore’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the wife of former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono died at National University Hospital, where she had been treated since February.

“She has left us forever in peace and the family has sincerely let her go,” Hatta Radjasa, a representative of the family, told reporters. He said that Yudhoyono had been at his wife’s bedside throughout her treatment.

Radjasa, the father-in-law of Yudhoyono’s second son, said Indonesia’s government had ordered a state funeral at Jakarta’s Kalibata heroes cemetery for the former first lady, whose body is expected to be returned to Jakarta on Sunday morning.

“I call on Indonesians to pray together for her, may she have the best place by God and may the family that left behind have patience,” Widodo said.