Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie - 1936 - 2019

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B. J. Habibie



Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie (25 June 1936 – 11 September 2019) was an Indonesian engineer and politician who was the President of Indonesia from 1998 to 1999. He succeeded Suharto who resigned in 1998, only two months after his inauguration as Vice President. His presidency is seen as a transition to the post-Suharto era. Upon becoming president, he liberalized Indonesia's press and political party laws, and held an early democratic election in 1999, which resulted in the end of his presidency. His presidency was the third, and the shortest, after independence.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._J._Habibie

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Abdurrahman Wahid



Abdurrahman Wahid (7 September 1940 – 30 December 2009), colloquially known as Gus Dur, was an Indonesian Muslim religious and political leader who served as the President of Indonesia from 1999 to 2001. The long-time president of the Nahdlatul Ulama and the founder of the National Awakening Party (PKB), Wahid was the first elected president of Indonesia after the resignation of Suharto in 1998. His popular nickname Gus Dur, is derived from Gus, a common honorific for a son of kyai, from short-form of bagus ('handsome lad' in Javanese language); and Dur, short-form of his name, Abdurrahman.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdurrahman_Wahid

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Megawati Sukarnoputri



Diah Permata Megawati Setiawati Sukarnoputri (born 23 January 1947) is an Indonesian politician who served as President of Indonesia from 23 July 2001 to 20 October 2004. She was previously the country's vice president from 21 October 1999 to 23 July 2001.
Megawati is the leader of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), one of Indonesia's largest political parties. She is the daughter of Indonesia's first president, Sukarno.

Megawati was Indonesia's first female president and the sixth woman to lead a Muslim-majority country. She is also the first Indonesian leader to be born after Indonesia proclaimed independence. After serving as vice president to Abdurrahman Wahid, Megawati became president when Wahid was removed from office in 2001. She ran for re-election in the 2004 presidential election, but was defeated by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. She ran again in the 2009 presidential election, but Yudhoyono defeated her for a second time.