Sandra Angelia Hadisiswantoro (born 11 May 1986) is an Indonesian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Indonesia 2008. She was also voted "Miss Favorite" by the audience, beating soap opera star Kartika Indah Pelapory. She is a representative of the

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province. Once elected as Miss Indonesia, she represented

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in the

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pageant.

Miss Indonesia's CROWN

Sandra Angelia is successor incumbent at 13 May 2008 – 5 June 2009 (only 1 year hold the crown) and her crown is given to Miss Indonesia 2009.

Personal life

Hadisiswantoro is the first daughter or second child of Rev. Yusak Hadisiswantoro and Rev. Asti Tanuseputra. Since the age of 13 years, she as an ethnic emigrant

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had moved to Australia at her young age. Sandra is also the maternal granddaughter of the founder of Bethany Church, Abraham Alex Tanuseputra. Sandra completed her undergraduate degree at the

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, in

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, majoring in Architecture.

References

External links

Sandra Angelia – Miss Indonesia 2008
1986 births Indonesian beauty pageant winners Indonesian people of Chinese descent Living people Indonesian evangelicals Indonesian Christians Miss Indonesia winners Miss World 2008 delegates Models from Perth, Western Australia People from Surabaya University of Western Australia alumni Indonesian emigrants to Australia {{Asia-pageant-bio-stub