Junus Effendi Habibie (11 June 1937 – 12 March 2012) also known as Fanny Habibie was an Indonesian diplomat and younger brother of the third Indonesian President,

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. Habibie was born in

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as the fifth of eight children. In 1961 he graduated from the Naval Academy in

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. During the New Order he served as director general for marine transportation affairs. In 1993 he was named Indonesian ambassador the United Kingdom, a position which he held until 1998. In 2006 he was named Indonesian ambassador to

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. In September 2010 he had an interview with Dutch newspaper

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in which he made several remarks about the

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and the people who voted for it, amongst others saying that those voters might be suffering from a "fear psychosis". His remarks led to questions in the Dutch parliament by Party for Freedom MPs

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and Wim Kortenoeven. In the questions they asked whether Dutch Foreign Ministers

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was willing to call Habibie over to the Foreign Ministry, Verhagen however did not wish to do so, citing that the remarks were made in freedom of speech and that Habibie had already retracted his words. Another incident occurred when Indonesian President

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cancelled his planned visit to the Netherlands for October 2010. Indonesia decided to cancel after it received information that the President might be arrested due to a court complaint made by the government-in-exile of the

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of human rights violations. Habibie's term as ambassador ended late 2001. He died on , from heart problems at the Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital in

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. He had had

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two times before.

References

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