Barry Soetoro
Nov 6th, 2008, in Opinion, by Guest WriterBarry Soetoro aka Barack Obama’s Indonesian connection.
Former Menteng student now US President
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.
1,047 Comments on “Barry Soetoro”
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BP says:
“Scott Marcus,
Why do you hate the black man?”
(I’ll answer for Scott)
– Did he enslave your ancestors? – No, and mine didn’t enslave blacks, either. We came to the US long after, yet we’re persecuted as racists because of the color of our skin
– Did he enforce apartheid on you or your ancestors? – see above
– Were you denied equal civil rights? – Yes, it’s called affirmative action.
– Is the black man in control of all large conglomerates in the US? – how is that relevant? Everyone can fullfill their dream with hard work. Look at Oprah.
– Are you a minority in your country who suffered deeply from institutionalized racism? – yes -
Richard Tatlow says:
I don’t know if Barry or Barack is a “natural born citizen” or not. Neither does anyone else unless they have seen his actual birth certificate. But, what bothers me the most is the constant court decisions that no one has “standing” to force the matter except the US Congress and then only on one specific day. It smells like Bull Manure me!
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cmfwain says:
Just get rid of the guy, I didn’t vote him. From the research I have undertaken i belive he is a fraud…. The american people should stand up for themselves. Any authority awarded him i do not recognize nor willingly submit to. This isn’t a dem / repub thing, this is an American or not thing. GET RID OF HIM before we start chanting “hail Obamma and clicking our heels” or adding a red star and sickle to Ol’glory. It’s coming America, just you wait watch and see. Then it will be too late.
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Pakmantri says:
cmfwain said:
The american people should stand up for themselves.
Funny, they did and their votes go to ……………………………….. Obama. 😀
Peace.
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ArrogantAmerican says:
BO has not provided the documentation necessary to prove he is eligible to be president, this very issues heating up! The truth always prevails if we are patient.
For more information –
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Brian Scearce says:
“Either you are a US citizen or not”. In that case, Obama, born in Hawaii, is a US citizen by the 14th Amendment.
The “natural-born” provision of the constitution is probably intended to exclude people who become American citizens through naturalization. Arnold Schwartzeneggar is an American citizen, but not a natural-born citizen, since his citizenship was Austrian when he was born. The exact meaning of “natural-born” has never been tested by the supreme court, but a perfectly reasonable interpretation is “American at birth”.
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Yewbee says:
Joke about this guy all you want… but he’s out to gradually reduce the US from the once capitalistic world power where all the refugees could come to make a good life, to a socialist-marxist nanny state just like France and it’s ilk!
If the communists and socialists are unabashed about saying that he is promoting their agenda, doesn’t that tell you something?!
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There is incredible, incredible hatred here in the USA for Barry Soetoro/Barack Obama ever since the election. It is terrifying to me, everywhere I go I hear people talk openly of their hate for him…even a few black people I’ve met/overheard have been cursing him. He has divided this country like no one else ever has.
I honestly do not know if America can survive this guy, esp. since so many people now are aware that he most likely is not a native-born American. The fact that he is spending so much money NOT to have to show his documents tells everyone he is hiding something.
The news media is on his side, so they do not show what is really going on. The average man on the street is full of hate for this Soetoro guy. I have never seen the country as divided as I have now.
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Aluang Anak Bayang says:
Obama has Javanese influences. He is a Javanese moslem which means he can be hindu, christian and moslem at the same time. His continuous slip of the tongue in regard to his religious belief confirms that. What’s more, his step-sister is part-Javanese. Sooner and very soon, the Great Mojopahit will expand and tighten his grip to include the US. The 2 countries will merge as one, and Javanese Islam will reign supreme. Any recalcitrant bule will be legs and hands shackled to be exported to the ME among the stone smoochers. The good ones will remain as sopir and tukang becak.
Com’on Americans (soon to be Indonesian citizens). Time to learn Javanese and get used to wearing peci and sarung to taste of things to come.
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Zachary says:
It does not matter where he was born, BECAUSE HIS MOTHER WAS A UNITED STATES CITIZEN. This means he was born a natural citizen because his mother was a natural born citizen. Get the f*** over it you White Supremacist S.o.B. Go to your KKK meeting.
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Real American says:
I can see by this thread why he is president. There are a lot of people that do not even understand our Consitution and laws. Then to top that off with stupid kids that did not study history or even understand the government. We need to split the US. Half for the liberals and half for conservatives, then let’s see who does better. Talk is cheap people and that is all Barry does is talk. It is easy to steal from others, try actually fixing the issue. What a waste. I would not waste a dime sending any kid to Harvard. Look at all the financial and politicans that ruined our economy due to reverse racism. The Africans sold their own people and then those traders brang them to the U.S. there are countries all over that pratice slavery, so get off your high horse hyprocrites. Funny no one mentions the civil war. What a bunch of losers! Just remember, if it wasn’t for the white man, there would be no U.S. and don’t you forget it. You will see in 4 years how damage this moron did!
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AlaskanInfidel says:
“I’m a Muslim, and so are 1 billion peaceful people on the planet. We are all not going to eat your puppy dogs and babies.
So what if he is Muslim- it still teach respect for Christians.
Why you Americans love the Jew so much- he gave you credit crisis- not Muslims.”No surprise to me that a muslim blames “the Jews” for the credit crisis. There is nothing that the muslim cannot blame the Jews for…you have been doing so since Mo invented islam for his self gratification and enrichment and the exploration of his sexual fantasies of which there were many. These are facts that can be found in islams holy texts. I’ve read them and I know islam for what it is. If you don’t like that fact, burn them…
Why do muslims hate Jews so much? You koran tells you to…it also tells you to kill Jews and Christians whenever possible. I’ve read your manual of war and the hadiths.
islam allows a 47 year old man to marry an 8 year old girl.
It allows for the kidnapping and forced conversion of women to islam.
It allows rape for wives at the hands of their husbands.
It clears family members of murder if it was an “honor killing”.
islam treats women as cattle, forcing them in to darkness, keeps them uneducated(How many girls schools have the taliban burned or blown up?) and forces them to wear slave rags. Some claim it is their choice… Can you say “Stockholm Syndrome”?
I can go on and on listing the savagery of islam.
Mo beheaded 900 in one day…bound prisoners..Jews…attacked at night without provocation.
It is not the religion of Peace..it is the religion of blood and death.
islam creeps…first a footbath…then a special room for muslims only to pray in. One submission after another. The requests for accommodation never end…they increase as the muslim population increases. Soon there are requests for sharia law to be used in finance, matters of divorce and more. I see them in the US now.
If one continues to submit to these requests…one can expect to wake up in an islamic hell hole like Pakistan or Iran one day where homosexuals are hanged, women stoned and limbs removed for crimes described in the book of hate…the koran. The UK is well on its way.
Resist islam. No submission. islam is slavery…I’ll take freedom.islam is a lie and Truth is killing it.
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SUSIE says:
Are you a racist ? Why did you say that President George W. Bush was
Selcted. YOU PIG. HE WON THE DAMN ELECTION WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT ! DEAL WITH IT. HE WA PRESIDENT FOR 8 YEARS. I LOVED IT.Obama mama want be re elected. You can take that to the bank with you.
He has screwed the USA up in 100 days worst that ANY president has done in our entire history. -
Lairedion says:
Unbelievably those Yanks here still cannot get over the fact Obama is indeed the president.
HE WON THE DAMN ELECTION WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT ! DEAL WITH IT.
Time to sprinkle some sugar over the sour grapes…
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Southern Believer says:
Has anyone stopped to think of long term effects of this administration…where is Obama, or whatever his name is, taking us? Maybe he is antichrist?
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michael says:
Here’s how bad “detainees” have it….cable t.v., a/c and internet access! They get better treatment in GTMO than the Navy!! Don’t forget we stop working and have to go away when its pray time. Or how about the move to D.C. with training and homes…Now our economy will be better off. What a crock!
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diego says:
He is a Javanese moslem which means he can be hindu, christian and moslem at the same time.
Right on AAB! Javanese are the most flexible and tolerant.
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Odinius says:
Just want to say that these are among the best posts I’ve ever seen on here:
Obama has Javanese influences. He is a Javanese moslem which means he can be hindu, christian and moslem at the same time. His continuous slip of the tongue in regard to his religious belief confirms that. What’s more, his step-sister is part-Javanese. Sooner and very soon, the Great Mojopahit will expand and tighten his grip to include the US. The 2 countries will merge as one, and Javanese Islam will reign supreme. Any recalcitrant bule will be legs and hands shackled to be exported to the ME among the stone smoochers. The good ones will remain as sopir and tukang becak.
Com’on Americans (soon to be Indonesian citizens). Time to learn Javanese and get used to wearing peci and sarung to taste of things to come.
It does not matter where he was born, BECAUSE HIS MOTHER WAS A UNITED STATES CITIZEN. This means he was born a natural citizen because his mother was a natural born citizen. Get the f*** over it you White Supremacist S.o.B. Go to your KKK meeting.
To the sour grapes clan…why are you even posting on an Indonesia related forum? Do you actually have any interest in Indonesia, or do you just troll the internet looking for any and all references to Barack Obama so you can vent your frustrations at our country having made a different choice than the one you are comfortable with?
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Johann says:
“Americans for Freedom of Information” has released copies of President Obama’s college transcripts from Occidental College. Released today, the transcript indicates that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro, received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia as an undergraduate at the school. The transcript was released by Occidental College in compliance with a court order in a suit brought by the group in the Superior Court of California. The transcript shows that Obama (Soetoro) applied for financial aid and was awarded a fellowship for foreign students from the Fulbright Foundation Scholarship program. To qualify, for the scholarship, a student must claim foreign citizenship. This document would seem to provide the smoking gun that many of Obama’s detractors have been seeking.
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It might, were it not total H1N1…
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Besides, even if it were true (which I’m fairly certain it’s not), the only requisites for being President are:
1) you are a US citizen
2) you were “naturally born” as a US citizen (i.e. either born on US soil or to parents, at least one of whom is a US citizen)
3) you are over 35Now President Obama is over 35 and was born in Hawaii. ALL people born on US territory are considered US citizens, even if they acquire another passport, unless they specifically apply to have their citizenship revoked.
Ergo, he was and remains eligible for the Presidency…except, of course, in the lurid and most probaby sexual dreams of those who are desperate to find some…ANY reason to hate him.
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This post, which er was written by Purba Negoro, gets a lot of links from American blogs and forums, mainly low-brow right wing/redneck sites, because the site is called ‘Indonesia Matters’ and the author, Purba Negoro, has an Indonesian name, some people seem to assume that the article has the inside ‘dope’ on Barry, I mean Barack. Particularly when Purba wrote that Obama was born in Kenya (which he later corrected in the comments, first page), the people that link to the page seize on that and say “see!”. It’s very peculiar.
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Thanks Patung…I was wondering what they hell these fools were doing on a site called Indonesia Matters.
I mean, on such a site I expect to be confronted with bogeymen from my Indonesia-focused bad dreams, not my American ones… 🙂
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Cukurungan says:
“Americans for Freedom of Information” has released copies of President Obama’s college transcripts from Occidental College. Released today, the transcript indicates that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro, received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia as an undergraduate at the school. The transcript was released by Occidental College in compliance with a court order in a suit brought by the group in the Superior Court of California. The transcript shows that Obama (Soetoro) applied for financial aid and was awarded a fellowship for foreign students from the Fulbright Foundation Scholarship program. To qualify, for the scholarship, a student must claim foreign citizenship. This document would seem to provide the smoking gun that many of Obama’s detractors have been seeking.
Friend whether you like or not, you have to face your reality life because Obama legality under US citizenship is not an important anymore because even US itself is only an illegal nation had been created by the white people upon the graveyard of the native American, therefore, please stop complain and it is much better for you pay tax timely and keep up your hard work because once day OBAMA may ask you to build mosque for us and your own graveyard.
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savtru says:
WOW. All of you BLIND democrats are showing how ignorant you really are
NATURAL BORN means born on US SOIL. Whether or not INSIDE US or not. But must be ON US SOIL, IE… Military Base etc…
OBAMA is a FAKE, LIAR and needs to be taken out of office. He is screwing this country up. We are further in debt now and there is no end in sight.
I am NOT against black people at all. This has nothing to do with race, as all of you try to make it. It’s about FACTS and LIES!
OBAMA needs to be made an example of and removed from office ASAP. All of his orders do not mean anything now. Everything he has done needs to be undone and he needs to be prosecuted for the crimes he is committing!
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Odinius Says:
May 3rd, 2009 at 5:55 amBesides, even if it were true (which I’m fairly certain it’s not), the only requisites for being President are:
1) you are a US citizen
2) you were “naturally born” as a US citizen (i.e. either born on US soil or to parents, at least one of whom is a US citizen)
3) you are over 35WRONG AGAIN You need to look up the meaning of this. Born to parents means NOTHING. That is why Mexicans come across the boarder and have a kid, and BAM, the kid is a US citizen!
If parents are US citizens and have the kid outside the US, NOT on US soil, then the kid is NOT a “Natural Born Citizen”.
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savtru: You need to actually read US law. Sorry to tell you, but far-right, racist conspiracy blogs aren’t a substitute.
You also might want to look at a map, and notice that Hawaii is a part of the United States. Ergo, anyone born in Hawaii is a natural born US citizen.
Now, what is your interest in Indonesia again?
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Kris says:
Peter Porcupine Says:
November 9th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Obama’s father was from Kenya, yes, but Barack (Jr.) himself was born in Hawaii (US) in 1961. His family tree is available online.My family tree is available on line too. It shows I was the first kid born on Mars.
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G Wyatt says:
Oh good grief, folks, Soetoro was Obama’s step fathers name. His real name is Obama. Grow up and get over it.
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