Nafisah Ahmad Zen Shahab ( ar-at, نفیسه أحمد زين شهاب , Nafīsah ʾAḥmad Zayn Šahāb; ; born August 1, 1946) is an Indonesian batik trader from

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, South Sumatra. Nafisah is known as a mother who acts as the sole parent in her family after her husband,

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died in 1996. On the 20th anniversary commemoration of

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(MURI) at

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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. Her eldest son, Prof. Dr. dr.

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, Sp.PD., K-KV, FECS, FACC., is a cardiovascular specialist and is the Chairman of the Association of Indonesian Internal Medicine Experts (PB PAPDI) for the period 2012–2015.

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