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B. J. Habibie
B. J. Habibie was an Indonesian aeronautical engineer and politician who served as the country's third president from May 1998 to October 1999. Trained in Germany, he became Suharto's minister of research and technology and his vice-president, and succeeded him when Suharto resigned amid the Asian financial crisis. In his brief presidency he freed the press, released political prisoners, prepared free elections and allowed the 1999 referendum in which East Timor voted for independence.
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