From Indonesia, José Ramos-Horta, resistance leader, politician, and an exiled spokesman for the liberation of East Timor, shared the Nobel Prize of peace of 1996 with Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo and in 2007 took office as president.
Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo shared the Nobel Prize for peace of 1996 with José Ramos-Horta.
Since independence, José Manuel Ramos-Horta served second on 20 May 2007. From 2006, he, a fellow recipient and a former prime minister, won the election of 2007, and afterward served until his inauguration. From 1975, Ramos-Horta founded the revolutionary front for independence and served during the years of the occupation to 1999. Ramos-Horta continued to work with revolutionary front for independence, the party, and meanwhile resigned in 1988.