[DOC] [TLE] Fall of Suharto - Wikipedia [PAR] Suharto resigned as president of Indonesia in May 1998 following the collapse of 
support for his three-decade long presidency. The resignation followed severe 
economic and political crises in the previous 6 to 12 months. B.J. Habibie 
continued at least a year of his remaining presidential years, ... Suharto 
responded by banning student protest, forcing the activists... [DOC] [TLE] CNN - Habibie becomes president after Suharto resigns - May 20 ... [PAR] May 20, 1998 ... Vice President Bucharuddin Jusuf Habibie was immediately sworn in as ... riots 
claimed at least 500 lives in Jakarta, forcing the military to send in tanks and 
troops to keep order. ... Indonesia has been buffeted by an economic crisis that 
eroded ... Speaker gives Suharto until Friday to resign - May 20, 1998... [DOC] [TLE] Washingtonpost.com: Nepotism, Cronyism Undercut President [PAR] May 21, 1998 ... As Indonesia's strongman for the past 32 years, President Suharto marched ... of 
economic collapse amid an Asian economic crisis and undermined Suharto's 
authority, ultimately forcing him to resign as president today in the face of ... as he 
turns over power to his handpicked vice president, B.J. Habibie,... [DOC] [TLE] Suharto | president of Indonesia | Britannica.com [PAR] army officer and political leader who was president of Indonesia from 1967 to 
1998. ... but his authoritarian regime finally fell victim to an economic downturn 
and its own .... cities in May 1998, and Suharto, having lost the support of the 
military, was forced to ... He was succeeded in office by the vice president, B.J. 
Habibie. [DOC] [TLE] Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie - Dictionary definition of Bacharuddin ... [PAR] Definition of Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie  Our online dictionary has ... of 
technical development and eventually its president, B.J. Habibie (born 1936) was 
... an unlikely candidate to bail out Indonesia from its severe economic crisis of 
the .... Hundreds died in the civil unrest that finally forced Suharto from office in 
May 1998. [DOC] [TLE] THE FALL OF SUHARTO: THE OVERVIEW; SUHARTO, BESIEGED ... [PAR] May 21, 1998 ... President Suharto apologized for his mistakes and resigned today after 32 ... 
office to his Vice President, B. J. Habibie, in a nationally televised ceremony. ... 
Thursday, May 21, 1998, my resigation statement as the President of Indonesia. 
... The economy is in free fall, with months of rioting deepening a crisis... [DOC] [TLE] PLAYING BY THE RULES R. William Liddle Th - University of Notre ... [PAR] Dec 9, 2000 ... resignation on May 21, 1998; and (3) the challenge to elect a ... Habibie, 
Suharto's vice-president who became president when Suharto stepped down, 
military officers, and leaders of the opposition forces that had just succeeded in 
..... Order regime, produced by the East Asian economic crisis of 1997. [DOC] [TLE] Indonesia's Economic and Political Crisis:&nbsp; A Challenge forU ... [PAR] Aug 17, 1998 ... Indonesia, the country hardest hit by the Asian economic crisis, is relatively calm 
now. ... President B. J. Habibie, Suharto's hand-picked successor, has had to 
grapple ... The economy is set to contract by some 15 percent to 30 percent in 
1998. ... Even well-run Indonesian companies have been forced into... [DOC] [TLE] The United States, the International Monetary Fund and the ... [PAR] Jun 30, 1998 ... The crisis spread to every sector of the Indonesian economy, and then turned ... 
and the White House was sending former Vice President Walter ... Soeharto 
resigned. ... In early 1998, geopolitics had been replaced by geoeconomics in 
East .... Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, a Soeharto intimate, although the... [DOC] [TLE] Suharto - Revolvy [PAR] For most of his presidency, Indonesia experienced significant economic growth ... 
The experience deeply affected him and later, as president, Suharto ... He was 
forced to resign after a bicycle mishap tore his only working clothes. .... BJ 
Habibie was later Suharto's vice-president, and went on to succeed him as 
President. [DOC] [TLE] Background on East Timor and US Policy October 1998 [PAR] In 1975, Indonesia launched its invasion

Question: An economic downturn in 1998 forced this president to resign & vice president Habibie succeeded him
Answer: Suharto