He died of heart failure at Jakarta's Gatot Soebroto Army Hospital at about 6pm local time on Wednesday , his son Thareq Kemal Habibie confirmed."The team of doctors has done its best, there was nothing else that could be done," he said in a televised address.Habibie, whose full name was Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, was Indonesia's third president following Suharto's more than 30-year rule.
An engineer by training, he was in office for less than two years. He saw Indonesia through the Asian financial crisis and ordered a referendum for East Timor's independence.According to local media, Habibie had been hospitalised since Sep 1 for various health problems. It was reported that he had undergone treatment last March in Munich, Germany for various complications relating to the heart, liver and asphyxia.
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