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President pays last tribute to former first lady Ainun

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Tue, 05/25/2010 9:18 AM
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Ainun Habibie: (JP/R. Berto Wedhatama)Ainun Habibie: (JP/R. Berto Wedhatama)President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and First Lady Ani Yudhoyono paid their last tribute on Tuesday to the wife of former president B.J. Habibie, Hasri Ainun Habibie, at Habibie's residence in South Jakarta.

The former first lady's body is to lie in state at the private residence until the burial, which will take place at 11 a.m. at Kalibata Heores' Cemetery in South Jakarta.

Yudhoyono will lead Tuesday the funeral ceremony before his departure to Oslo later in the day.

Ainun died at 72 in a hospital in Munich, Germany, after undergoing a number of surgeries due to several complications from her illness.

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