Former first lady Ani Yudhoyono treated for blood cancer - Jakarta Post

Tender loving care: Former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono accompanies his wife Ani Yudhoyono as the latter undergoes intensive medical treatment for blood cancer in a hospital in Singapore on Tuesday.(Courtesy of Anung Anindito/HO)When it became known on Saturday that former first lady Kristiani Herrawati — better known as Ani Yudhoyono — had been admitted to a hospital in Singapore, it was surmised that it was as a result of exhaustion after accompanying her husband, Democratic Party chairman and former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, on a political tour of North Sumatra and Aceh.

Four days later, however, Yudhoyono himself broke the bad news that in fact his wife was suffering from an as yet undetermined type of blood cancer.

In a recorded statement released on Wednesday, he revealed that Ani had been receiving intensive medical care at the National Universit...