Gusti Kanjeng Ratu Hemas

Queen Hemas of Yogyakarta (born 31 October 1952) is Queen of the Yogyakarta Sultanate as the wife of Sultan Hamengkubuwono X. She has also served as a senator of the Indonesian Regional Representative Council (DPD) from Yogyakarta since 2004 and Deputy Speaker of the DPD in 2024–2029 period. She served as a Deputy Speaker of the DPD from 2009 to 2017.

Early life Sultan Hamengkubuwono X's coronation Ratu Hemas, born as Tatiek Dradjad Supriastuti is the third child and sole daughter of seven siblings. She grew up in Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta. Her father, Colonel Soepono Digdosastropranoto, was an official in the Indonesia Army who was born in Yogyakarta. Her mother, Raden Nganten Susamtilah Soepono, was a housewife from Wates, Kulonprogo. Hemas went to school in Jakarta until she graduated from High School and continued to pursue her study in the department of Architecture in Trisakti University. She did not finish her studies at the university and was married in 1968. Hemas then followed her husband to live in Yogyakarta In November 2012 Ratu Hemas together with Laode Ida, I Wayan Sudirta, and John Pieris representing the Regional Representative Council, appealed to the Constitutional Court to run a judicial review on the Law No. 27 Year 2009 and Law No. 12 Year 2011. These laws were considered as violating the clauses of the constitution, especially clause number 22 D concerning equal rights between the Regional Representative Council and the People's Representative Council. In legislation process , the Regional Representative Council was granted the authority to provide inputs but not to sanction the law. The Regional Representative Council request the authority to also sanction a law.