Obama Jakarta
Obama is in indonesia the world s most populous muslim country as part of his 10 day tour of asia that included three days in india as well as coming visits to south korea and japan.
Obama jakarta. The us president who spent four years living in the indonesian. When barack obama was first elected in 2008 many indonesians were swept away in the euphoria. Obama was greeted by a crowd of thousands including leaders students and businesspeople in jakarta where he opened the fourth congress of indonesian diaspora. Soetoro usually was too busy working first for the indonesian army and later for a western oil company.
Obama attended the indonesian language government run besuki school one and half miles east in the exclusive menteng administrative village for part of 3rd grade and for 4th grade. Barack obama has ended a five day family holiday to indonesia by visiting yogyakarta an ancient and artsy city around which his anthropologist mother spent years doing research into village life. Obama attended an indonesian public school an anonymous e mail makes a number of specious claims to promote its manchurian candidate style conspiracy theory including obama was enrolled in a. Obama and his mother moved from honolulu to jakarta to join soetoro in 1967 when obama was 6.
Struggling to recognise the city of his childhood barack obama today returned to jakarta on a heavily curtailed trip to indonesia. He also joined the cub scouts. In their first neighborhood. Someone who had spent four years in their country as a boy had become president of the united states.
President barack obama and his family arrived friday in his childhood home of jakarta on the last leg of a 10 day vacation in indonesia where they visited ancient temples and went. That would also explain how barack hussein obama adopted in indonesia by the indonesian lolo soetoro was able to attend school in indonesia as his records indicated with indonesian citizenship.