Video shows tender goodbye between dying Indonesian PM and Timor-Leste leader

Former Time Leste president Xanana Gusmão hugs JB Habibie, whose actions paved the way to independence

The first president of Timor Leste has paid a touching visit to the bedside of the Indonesian president who granted the region a referendum on independence in 1999, before his death on Wednesday night.

A video circulating on social media shows Xanana Gusmão, who became president of Timor Leste after the country achieved independence in 1999, visiting BJ Habibie in hospital in Jakarta.

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