{"id":8960,"date":"2019-09-13T10:55:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T01:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/13\/video-shows-tender-goodbye-between-dying-indonesian-pm-and-timor-leste-leader"},"modified":"2019-09-13T10:55:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T01:55:44","slug":"video-shows-tender-goodbye-between-dying-indonesian-president-and-timor-leste-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8960","title":{"rendered":"Video shows tender goodbye between dying Indonesian president and Timor-Leste leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Timor Leste president Xanana Gusm\u00e3o hugs BJ Habibie, whose actions paved the way to independence<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>A video circulating on social media shows Xanana Gusm\u00e3o, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/30\/east-timor-indonesias-invasion-and-the-long-road-to-independence\">who became president of Timor Leste after the country achieved independence in 1999<\/a>, visiting BJ Habibie in hospital in Jakarta.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/13\/video-shows-tender-goodbye-between-dying-indonesian-pm-and-timor-leste-leader\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Timor Leste president Xanana Gusm\u00e3o hugs BJ Habibie, whose actions paved the way to independenceThe first president of Timor Leste has paid a touching visit to the bedside of the Indonesian president who granted the region a referendum on indepe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,156,664,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","category-timor-leste","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8961,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960\/revisions\/8961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}