Dignitaries including Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong visited the former Indonesian president Suharto's residence Sunday to pay their final respects, according to dpa. Loong arrived at Suharto's residence as thousands of mourners including government and former government officials and politicians queued in heavy rain, state-run Antara News Agency said. As troops patrolled the street outside, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his deputy Jusuf Kalla were shown on television kneeling before Suharto's white-shrouded body in a bare room of his residence. Seven days of mourning was announced and the government ordered the nation's red-and-white flag to be loweredto half-mast across the country for its duration. A presidential spokesman said Yudhoyono would lead Monday's funeral at the family grave near Solo, Central Java, where Suharto is to be buried next to his wife of 48 years, Siti Suhartinah, who died in 1996.
