Habibie had known Hasri Ainun in childhood, junior high school and in senior high school at SMA Kristen Dago (Dago Christian Senior High School), Bandung. During this time, he was reacquainted with Hasri Ainun, the daughter of R. In 1962, Habibie returned to Indonesia for three months on sick leave. He remained in Germany as a research assistant under Hans Ebner at the Lehrstuhl und Institut für Leichtbau, RWTH Aachen to conduct research for his doctoral degree. In 1960, Habibie received an engineer's degree in Germany with the title Diplom-Ingenieur. Habibie went to Delft, the Netherlands, to study aviation and aerospace at the Technische Hogeschool Delft ( Delft University of Technology), but for political reasons (the West New Guinea dispute between the Netherlands and Indonesia), he had to continue his study at the Technische Hochschule Aachen ( RWTH Aachen University) in Aachen, Germany. In addition, it was proposed that State University of Gorontalo be renamed in honour of Habibie although, in the end, the suggestion was not adopted. Habibie's Monument in front of the main gate of Djalaluddin Airport in Gorontalo Regency. In 2018, the Gorontalo provincial government agreed to support the construction of the B.J. Habibie's father died when he was 14 years old. Habibie's paternal family comes from Kabila, just to the east of the town of Gorontalo in northern Sulawesi. Tuti Marini Puspowardojo, a Javanese noblewoman from Yogyakarta, met while studying in Bogor. His parents, Alwi Abdul Jalil Habibie, an agriculturist of Gorontalese descent, and R. He was of ethnic Gorontalese- Javanese descent from Kabila in Gorontalo and Yogyakarta. Habibie was a native of Parepare, in South Sulawesi.