Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Former Women Empowerment Minister Hj Tuty Alawiyah passed away here on Wednesday morning at the age of 74. She was undergoing treatment at the Metropolitan Medical Center, Kuningan, Jakarta.

"Our mother Hj Tutty Alawiyah died at 07.15 a.m. Western Indonesia Standard Time (WIB) on Wednesday. Kindly forgive her if she happened to have made any mistake," one of her children H Dailami Firdaus said here on Wednesday.

According to Dailami, his mothers funeral would be conducted at a cemetery near her home in Jakarta later in the day.

Hj Tuty Alawiyah, who was born in Jakarta on March 30, 1942, served as the Minister for Women Empowerment from 1998 to 1999.(*)

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