PRESIDENT SOEHARTO RESIGN

JAKARTA, (FILES) The image file was dated May 21, 1998 this shows President of Indonesia at that time Soeharto (left) announced the resignation after 32 years of power in the presence of military officials as the vice president and the substitute at that time, BJ Habibie (right) saw the presidential palace in Jakarta. Three years after the fall of Suharto, when the former president was sick increasingly sinking, Indonesia remained trapped in political and economic marinants that can lead to the first elected president's in democratic, Abdurrahman Wahid. ANTARA PHOTO/AFP-MAYA VIDON/Koz/hp/98.

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