JAKARTA: Former Indonesian President Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie (pic), who allowed democratic reforms and an independence referendum for Timor Leste following the ouster of the dictator Suharto, has died. He was 83.
His unpopular presidency was the shortest in modern Indonesia’s history, but was transformative.
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