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Michelle Obama arrives at a state dinner in Indonesia – Photo: Jason Reed/Reuters
Michelle Obama arrives at a state dinner in Indonesia - Photo: Jason Reed/Reuters
Guardian on on Obama visit to Indonesia
Kid Obama with friends in Jakarta, Indonesia
Sky News Video
Sky News on Obama visit to Indonesia
From The Jakarta Globe
Cheering, Bakso and Friendship — An Indonesian Welcome Home for Obama
Jakarta. He’s famous for his coolness and dignified bearing, but on a showery Tuesday afternoon, US President Barack Obama touched down in Jakarta for the first time since his childhood to a welcome fit for a rock star.His trip was twice postponed and threatened this time by Mount Merapi’s eruptions, but long-time Jakarta residents could not recall another foreign leader arriving to such fanfare.
Throngs of office workers braved city streets in the rain or peered from high-rise office blocks for a glimpse of Obama’s motorcade as it sped down an empty toll road and onto Jalan Sudirman en route to the Presidential Palace.
From New York Times
Seems like young Obama predicted his future role as president.
Obama Visits a Nation That Knew Him as Barry
In the compound, Mr. Obama often played with the two sons of the physician’s driver.One time, recalled the elder son, Slamet Januadi, now 52, Mr. Obama asked a group of boys whether they wanted to grow up to be president, a soldier or a businessman. A president would own nothing while a soldier would possess weapons and a businessmen would have money, the young Obama explained.
Mr. Januadi and his younger brother, both of whom later joined the Indonesian military, said they wanted to become soldiers. Another boy, a future banker, said he would become a businessman.
“Then Barry said he would become president and order the soldier to guard him and the businessman to use his money to build him something,” Mr. Januadi said. “We told him, ‘You cheated. You didn’t give us those details.’ ”
“But we all became what we said we would,” he said.
Read more about Obama in Indonesia from The New York Times
And for fun – President Obama’s Indonesian lookalike.
“I see my resemblance to Obama as a blessing – I used to look at the mirror and I had a negative perception of myself.” – President Obama’s Indonesian lookalike, Ilham Anas
Obama Indonesian Lookalike in Commercial