Hasri Ainun Habibie

Hasri Ainun Habibie (1937 to 2010) was an Indonesian physician who became First Lady of Indonesia as the wife of President B. J. Habibie. She was born in Semarang to a lecturer father and a midwife mother, from a family known as well educated, and she graduated from the Medical Faculty of the University of Indonesia in 1961. She married Rudy Habibie in 1962 and lived with him in Aachen, Germany. When her husband joined the cabinet she took on public roles through the Dharma Wanita organisation and chaired the foundation Yayasan Karya Bhakti RIA Pembangunan from 1998 until her death. She served as First Lady of Indonesia from 1998 to 1999 and received several national decorations. She died in 2010 after treatment for ovarian cancer in Munich, and a number of health facilities in Indonesia, including regional hospitals and an eye clinic, are named after her.