Nafisah Ahmad Zen Shahab Explained

Nafisah Ahmad Zen Shahab
Native Name:نفیسه أحمد زين شهاب
Native Name Lang:ar
Birth Name:Nafisah
Birth Date:1 August 1946
Birth Place:Palembang, South Sumatra
Nationality:Indonesian
Known For:Mother of ten doctors
Children:12 (including Idrus Alwi)
Awards:Indonesian World Records Museum (February 3, 2010)

Nafisah Ahmad Zen Shahab (Arabic: نفیسه أحمد زين شهاب |Nafīsah ʾAḥmad Zayn Šahāb; pronounced as /ar/; born August 1, 1946) is an Indonesian batik trader from Palembang, South Sumatra. Nafisah is known as a mother who acts as the sole parent in her family after her husband, Alwi Idrus Shahab died in 1996. On the 20th anniversary commemoration of Indonesian World Records Museum (MURI) at Mall of Indonesia on February 3, 2010, Nafisah, the mother of twelve children, ten of whom became doctors, broke the MURI record as the family with the most doctors in Indonesia. Of her ten children who became doctors, five of them are specialists.

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