Achmed Sukarno, who was the historic president of Indonesia, and who carries the popular title of ‘poorest president in the world’, begins to distance himself from that legend that weighed on his figure, accusing him of being the owner of a fortune of more than fifty tons of the precious golden metal.
As reported for a time the news circulated that he had about 57 tons of gold stored in a bank located in Switzerland. The aforementioned media has analyzed whether it was real and whether it was a loan that he requested from the president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, in 1963. But the reality is a little different from the rumors.
According to the information to which the aforementioned edition of the American network has had access, Sukarno did not have that much wealth and historical facts indicate that he suffered great difficulties. In fact, his salary was about 220 US dollars and he did not have a house or land.
“I had no land or house, much less…”
“Is there any Head of State who is as poor as me and who often borrows money from his assistants?” Sukarno said in 1964 in an interview with Cindy Adams.
His first son, Guntur Sukarnoputra, said in 2020 that he was “the poorest president in the world.” “I had no land or house, much less precious metals, as people have been saying all this time,” he noted.
Indonesian historian Ong Hok Ham has also denied that the story could be real and analysis has concluded that it was a false rumor. “The story of the gold bullion treasure of Indonesia’s first president, which was long believed, was false,” they detail.
