Barry Soetoro aka Barack Obama’s Indonesian connection.
Obama Barack has been democratically elected President of the US.
Quite an about face for the best democracy money can buy, in view of the Bush presidential se-lection.
But of course, corruption, collusion and nepotism is the sole monopoly of the Third World – or so the deluded denizens of the West repeat to themselves as they hug their knees, rocking back and forth – reminding themselves of how they uphold human rights equally across the board, entirely devoid of double-standards and totally oblivious to race, creed or religion.
Barrak Hussein Obama II was born to a white American Ann Dunham and Kenyan Barrak Hussein Obama Snr, in Nyang’oma Kogelo now in Kenya.
Here the Indonesian link starts.
Ann Dunham married in 1967 Lolo Soetoro, a Javanese, whose own father, in 1946 was killed along with his eldest brother were killed, after which the Dutch army burned down the family’s home. Soetoro fled with his mother into the countryside to survive. Incidentally yet more proof of Dutch war crimes – delibrate destruction of civilian property outside the scope of battle.
Pak Lolo Soetoro was an army geologist then later a government relations consultant for Mobil Oil. Obama describes Soetoro as well-mannered, even-tempered, and easy with people.

Barry Soetoro in Indonesia with mother Ann Dunham, step-father Lolo Soetoro, baby-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng.
From age 6 to 10, Obama lived in Jakarta. Age six, Obama attended the Catholic Primary St Francis di Assisi. Much was made of the lie he was educated in a Madrassa – or more accurately a pesantren – this of course was totally untrue. Obama Jnr later attended Model Primary School, Menteng and was registered as a Muslim – as his father was Muslim.
In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies. My mother wasn’t overly concerned. ‘Be respectful,’ she’d say. In the Catholic school, when it came time to pray, I would close my eyes, then peek around the room. Nothing happened. No angels descended. Just a parched old nun and 30 brown children, muttering words.
One of “Berry’s” childhood friends was Adi who often visited “Berry’s” 16 Jalan Haji Ramli house. Speaking volumes of Dutch “development” at the time the road was of this established middle-class neighbourhood was a dirt lane where Obama used to wile away the hours kicking a soccer ball.
Adi recalled Obama and his friends wore plastic bags over their shoes to walk through the muddy street during the rainy seasons.
Neighborhood Muslims worshiped in a nearby house, which has since been replaced by a larger mosque. Sometimes, when the muezzin sounded the call to prayer, Lolo and Barry would walk to the makeshift mosque together, Adi said.
His mother often went to the church, but Barry was Muslim. He went to the mosque,” Adi said. “I remember him wearing a sarong.”
Obama spent most his spare time hanging out with Adi and other friends at the home of Yunaldi Askiar, a classmate. They used to play a kind of fencing game using sticks, kick a ball up and down the narrow dirt lanes or go swimming in the river behind the school, said Askiar, 42, a car mechanic.
Obama was taller and better dressed than most kids in classes where shoes and socks were still luxuries, so he stood out from the start. As an African American, and the only foreigner, he suffered racial taunts and teasing but never turned to violence.
“At first, everybody felt it was weird to have him here,” Israella Dharmawan, his first grade teacher said. “But also they were curious about him, so wherever he went, the kids were following him.”
His friends enjoyed playing tricks on Berry: Harmon ASki recalled,
“Sometimes we’d say, ‘Barry, do you want a chocolate?’ And we’d give him a chocolate. The next day we’d give him a chocolate again. The third time we’d give him terasi (fermented shrimp paste) wrapped up like chocolate. Obama didn’t get mad. He would laugh it off.”
Ann Soetoro moved to Yogyakarta, while Obama Jnr studied in Jakarta. She was inspired by Jogja village industries, which became the basis of her 1992 doctoral dissertation.
“She loved living in Java,” said Dr. Dewey, who recalled accompanying Ms. Soetoro to a metalworking village. “People said: ‘Hi! How are you?’ She said: ‘How’s your wife? Did your daughter have the baby?’ They were friends. Then she’d whip out her notebook and she’d say: ‘How many of you have electricity? Are you having trouble getting iron?’ ”
Dunham-Soetoro became a consultant for the United States Agency for International Development on setting up a village credit program, then a Ford Foundation program officer in Jakarta specializing in women’s work. Later, she was a consultant in Pakistan, then joined Indonesia’s oldest bank to work on what is described as the world’s largest sustainable microfinance program, creating services like credit and savings for the poor.

Obama in Hawaii with Maya and Ann and maternal grand-father, shortly after leaving Indonesia.
In his tellingly-titled Memoir, Dreams from My Father, Obama describes his Indonesian interlude as “one long adventure, the bounty of a young boy’s life”. But he also recalls being troubled by the poverty around him: “the empty look on the faces of farmers the year the rains never came,” and the desperation of the disabled beggars who came to the family’s door.
“The world was violent, I was learning, unpredictable and often cruel,” he writes. Obama and his mother thus we were very well acquainted with the harsh realities of indigenous Indonesians.
Fermina Katarina Sinaga, recalled yojhng Obama in her class: in the common task of class to write an essay titled “My dream: What I want to be in the future.” Obama “wrote ‘I want to be a president,’ ” she said. During a later writing assignment on family, he wrote, “My father is my idol.
The Indonesian connection for Obama and all that shaped him proving once again all things Javanese and indigenous Indonesian the bedrock for the towering monuments built on the foundations of a great civilisation.
I am happy to be “haunted” by my statements Lairedion, but thanks for your interest.
I have enjoyed watching you & Oigal variously; condem Islam/ defend Islam, condem the killing of kids/ approve the killing of kid and so on…
Depending on what you think sounds most “liberal and enlightened” at the time.
What is lacking in your responses is any sort of consistent position. There is a double standard that allows (for example) the killing of kids by armies occupying foreign lands, but does not allow for a few dead political agitators in the West, with both being examples of defending the West from the advance of radical Islam.
You think the Norway killer was crazy?. Well there are state approved Sharia courts in Europe now. There are Sharia police, in some, suburbs now. Displaying the National Flag and celebrating Christmas are actively discouraged or forbidden to appease radical Muslims, now. There are increasingly loud demands for Sharia law across Europe now. The people responsible are liberal Westerners of the type targeted in Norway.
Compare that with the threat of Afghan Goat herders (in a place most Americans could not find on a map) attacking the world’s biggest military power.
You fail to acknowledge the injustice of tens of thousands of innocents dying, yet get all up-tight over a well targeted handful in Norway.
My position is simple. I am opposed to people being killed in all examples. I do not condone the Norway killers actions or Americas in the fight against radical Islam.
It is you and Oigal who have tried to excuse the killing of kids, not me. So don’t bother to scramble for the moral high ground as it sinks beneath your liberal feet.
Just to clarify the American/Marxist liberal connection.
Yes it does seem like an oxymoron. However the American cultural elite have done much to advance the liberal agenda throughout the modern world. They have created the breeding ground for Islamist extremists in western society, by promoting them as minority victims. This allows them to be held to different standards from the rest of society. It is Marxist 101 to create a disenfranchised under class to play the victim role. The West has only its self to blame. American (so called) intellectuals are at the fore with this tactic.
I wonder if they have this problem in China ?
Oigal, a quick google search will show what I am talking about in regards to the flag and Christmas icons. Its certainly an issue in the UK, with even traditional childrens stories being doctored to remove references to Christmas. It not about a secular state, its about appeasing radical Muslims. Check it out for yourself.
I agree with what you said about China. This is a special moment for us both, you actually understood the point (well part of it) of one of my posts. Have you been taking some lessons in basic English comprehension?
I agree with all you wrote Lairedion and you sum it up well. The problem is often liberals are allowing very un-liberal ideologies to emerge.
You may still have to convince Oigal that killing (non Norwegian) innocents is wrong.
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Obama is not a narural born American regarding its definition to be the president. The Founding Fathers had comments on this regarding dual loyalties. Therefore, wherever Obama was born is irrelevant. He was also an Indonesian citizen only after he was adopted by Lolo, and thereafter was no longer an American. If he ever became an American again, when and where did he do so? Even if he did, he is not eligible as his chain if citizenship was broken. That is law school 101. Where are the papers for all of this. Did he just omit his Indonesian interregnum as though it never existed. It would be no surprise if he did. That is why he is fighting all of this in the courts. He will laugh at all of you when he is no longer the president, because he made fools of all of you. From a Barrister in Canada.