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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Odinius says:
Wow you are really fishing. First it was that the UK claimed him, then it was that his “grandmother” claimed she witnessed his birth in Kenya, despite the existence of documents proving he was born in Hawaii.
Unfortunately, Obama’s State of Hawaii issued birth certificate is considered legal tender, whereas far-right, racist conspiracy blogs are not. This was deemed enough for the Supreme Court to boot the conspiracist suit, and since that majority conservative court is the highest authority in the land, it looks like it’s back to fantasy-land for the conspiracists!
Might also be illustrative to ponder the fact that this country elected a moderately liberal, half-black and well-spoken man because a majority of the electorate didn;t like the direction the country was headed in and wanted a change.
If they feel similarly in 2012 or 2016, so be it. That’s democracy.
So, since this is an Indonesia focused blog, do you have any comment on the recent Indonesian elections?
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Lori says:
This is not a far right conspiracy theory. The Supreme Court gave the early cases the ‘boot’ due to standing…saying that the plaintiff did not have the right to bring the suit…NOT that the evidence is not true. Actually they never saw any evidence.
There is now two dozen lawsuits ranging from State and Federal courts right up to the Supreme court again. Obama’s lawyers have already been paid over $900,000.00 to keep his original BC under wraps (with more campaign $$$ going to them every week). This is the very BC that the Hawaiian governor said that she ‘saw’. Why pay so much to keep anyone else from seeing it??? Especially since, over the past 12 years, all of Gore’s, Kerry’s, and Bush’s records were read with such scrutiny. Why does this guy get a pass? Keep the BC hidden, no passport files, no college records or thesis papers? What’s he tryin’ to hide?
There are also three state citizen’s grand juries who have just issued indictments on Soetoro/Obama for fraud. They are presently being presented to the authorities.
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anonymous says:
Sadly, many of you do not know the actual requirements. Obama’s mother was not old enough to have been a citizen long enough — it’s part of the way the requirements were written. Now, you can spin this any way you want, but that is the truth.
Just why is it that Obama has not only refused to allow ANY of his records be made public (this even includes his records when he was in the state congress!) but has gone to unimaginable lengths to keep these records from being made public, unless he has something to hide? Why did he have a FAKE birth certificate on one of his websites during the campaign and then pull it down after it was uncovered as a fraud? He wrote in a book about having his birth certificate with his books and just how much that birth certificate meant to him, YET, he now REFUSES to produce that birth certificate that was so sacred to him. WHY?
Why are Democrats who voted for Obama now anonymously saying that he is the greatest danger to our country now? They are claiming he will strong-arm until he gets what he wants, no matter what the cost. He has a history of this, just do your own research and you’ll find this true.
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In reply to Ben White Says: I won’t even go there with his ties to FELONS and TERRORISTS! There goes the neighborhood, ooh wait, the counrty!
BEN! Could You Be More Racist!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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King Normie says:
The Issue here is Not about Race, Creed or Color!
It is about Nationality. Is the feller Constitutionally
Qualified? If So, have him Prove it!I have to Prove it 2-3 times a week, to cash a check,
for example, down to the local IGA . . .Do the Right Thing, Barack, or Barry, whatever the Case may be . . .
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lin says:
Barack Obama is not an american. I don’t think that Ann is his real mother.
She did not marry his real father until 1967, he was born in 1961. take a close look at the picture he is his father’s son, they look just like each other in the picture. Ann is his stepmother.That is why his real birth certificate is sealed.
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Larry Velasco says:
Why in the world did no one make more of an issue about Barry Soetoro Hussein’s citizenship? The people in power in the U.S. are lax and not doing their job, or was it by design? Obama is a liar, cheat and has ties to groups that are trying to take this country down. We better keep an eye on him. They should have an enity that watches him solely. The man is cunning ane has charisma like most crooks. His ties with Acorn which is supported by the New Black Panther Party and Bank of America has caused me to stop banking at B of A. I will be heading a demonstration at the Bank of America soon. I had written a letter, is fact it became three letters to Ken Lewis former CEO of B of A, he was fired. I questioned him about the banks contribution to Acorn, of course the answer came across as very vague. Anyway, Obama is not my president and I, in my 64 years have never been so disappointed in our country for electing a man whose citizenship was never proved without a doubt. In my opinion, it was all a put up deal and we will all pay and our children and grandchildren will too. It doesn’t matter if you are Democrat or Repbulican or independant, we all lost when Barry was elected. You’re right, I don’t respect him at all. He stands for bad, not good. Without his teleprompter he would be helpless as far as speaking is concerned. His election is one of the worse things to happen to the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Concerned AMERICAN, Larry Velasco.
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DJ says:
lin Says:
May 16th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
“Barack Obama is not an american. I don’t think that Ann is his real mother.
She did not marry his real father until 1967, he was born in 1961. take a close look at the picture he is his father’s son, they look just like each other in the picture. Ann is his stepmother.”
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Lin, you misread the article. the photo in the article is of Obama’s mom and his step-dad. She married Obama’s stepfather, Soetorro in 1967. Obama’s real father supposedly was Barack Obama SR. I agree he resembles his stepdad in the photo but that is not his father. -
jay says:
I think where he was born is not the issue. What he did was renounce his US citizenry when he returned to Indonesia as a young man. He reclaimed his citizenry there and traveled as a Muslim to Pakistan. He could NOT have visited there as an American and could not retain both legally. When he returned to the US it was as a citizen of Indonesia. This was overlooked because he never formally renounced his citizenry HERE but legally he was no longer a Native of the USA.
Everyone else is focusing on where he was born but there is a loophole in the requirements that state a child of a US citizen is a considered natural born citizen regardless of where they are born PROVIDED that they return to the US by their 23rd birthday.
He did that..but then he left on his own accord. That automatically cost him his natural born status and made him simply a naturalized citizen which as you should know by now..violates the requirement of POTUS -
Well, these bigoted Americans who worry more about where Obama was born than what he stands for
Agree there’s a segment of the Amer. population motivated by racial hatred, but there’s another group who believe no one including a president is above the law of the land. In U.S. law there’s something called ‘probable cause’ and its defined as: ‘A reasonable belief that a person has committed a crime.’ The circumstances surrounding Pres. Obama’s eligibility to hold the Office of President are construed by a great many Americans to be probable cause that a crime has been committed. As such it may deserve to be investigated further, and its unfair to suppose everybody wanting the truth has a racist agenda.
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JenniferB says:
Odinius, Why won’t Soetoro/Obama release those birth documents? Why has he spent so much money and time fighting to keep them in the vault in Hawaii? We have men and women that he’s putting in harms way and he owes it to them to prove beyond all doubt he is a legitimate commander in chief. Why has he and does he continue to resist any scrutiny? What happened to transparency and integrity?
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DumadiSatrio says:
Actually… You;re right! Obama is an alien.
He’s a Vulcan.
Speaks in a calm demeanor, pragmatic, and Look at the ears people.I, your trusty reporter, have uncovered the truth. He was born inside the vulcan observation base deep inside borobudur as the child of Lt. Commander Tuvok, as you can clearly see:
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rick says:
No matter if he was born a citizen or not – BO is or has become the worst president that the U.S. has seen. He’s on his way to ruin what we all felt were the great-nest of the U.S.
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bryanwobley says:
Further to Wonder Woman…. The 14th Amendment is also important if Barry Sr. was in Hawaii on scholarship and sponsored by the British colonial government. The 14th Amendment was set up to provide the unambiguous constitutional legal expression / basis for the citizenship clause of the Civil Rights Act of 1866. It excludes persons under the jurisdiction of another jurisdiction, specifically meaning children of foreign diplomats to prevent penetration of our government by foreign influence, and tribal Indians. Among other things, this means that Barry’s dad, Barry Sr. was selected by the Kenyan government and sent to America to attend university and therefore was likely on a diplomatic visa, therefore Barry was born the son of a diplomat on US soil which also disallows the privilege of a U.S. birth citizenship. If Barry Sr. was not on a diplomatic visa, it may be interpreted as such – so what do the records say? No one can say because all of Obama’s records are sequestered and unavailable.
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Scotty says:
Before crying to hang the guy out to dry for his unfortunate confusion about US citizenship status, consider who would automatically replace him for the remainder of his term–the VP. And, Lord forbid, if the VP could not fulfill that then the speaker of the House would become President. Do you really want either of them in his place?
Past history shows that when a charismatic person is cut down in his prime of public popularity (whether he is a rock star or President), the people turn him into a martyr. If he were allowed to live out his position, time eventually reveals his motives and whether or not he is deserving of that. Meanwhile, the real problem at hand is how to survive the wait and undo as much of the damage as possible afterwards.
But is it no wonder in Obama’s case that he displays little knowledge or interest in America’s lifestyle? How can he represent the people when he did not grow up exposed to the education and daily experience of the USA?
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louis says:
More juicy facts are being exposed at this very minute.
Even while Obama sips his Bud Light Beer in the White House Garden…with the boy’sin the hood!
Since O was and still is adopted by Lolo Soetoro and they really got busy and forgot….oh my… to
do the BIGGIE…they forgot to and that means that he has never been NATURATIZED….
He is nobody’s President…..That is what he is frantically trying to HIDE…..this very minute!!!!
Not working….
Busted Big Time!!!!!
So the BC is just a after thought!
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Oigal says:
Sadly, many of you do not know the actual requirements.
No happily many of us don’t care..Shock and Awe but the USA is only the centre of the universe in the USA.
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Rick Fontes says:
Be very careful what you wish for. The unintended consequences of proving Mr. Obama to be ineligible for the office of the presidency will range far beyond the imaginable.
It isn’t just a matter of a Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi assuming the office and being less than qualified to serve but, rather, the illegitimacy of each and every official act undertaken during Obama’s tenure in office that must be considered.
I was one of the many small voices, crying in the wilderness during the campaign that his credentials should be thoroughly vetted. In point of fact, running for high political office in the United States requires less proof of eligibility than does obtaining a driver’s license.
The toothpaste, however, is out of the tube. Mr. Obama is the POTUS. As loathe as I am to say it, I feel we should let the matter lie and work to pass currently proposed legislation to require all future candidates, for election or re-election, to prove their eligibility. If Mr. Obama cannot produce proof of eligibility in 2012, he will simply go away and we can then set about undoing any harm his term in office has produced.
Proving his ineligibility after the fact of his assuming office has the potential to bring our entire government to a halt.
I greatly respect the Constitution of the United States, keep a copy next to my keypad at all times, and refer to it often. But this situation goes far beyond any scenario envisioned by the framers and it causes me to believe that it might be better to let this one slip through so long as we bar the door against any future usurpers.
God help the USA.
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Cal says:
This is kind of queer that the Obama/Soetoro thing is now getting more attention than it did during the campaign.
Sooner or later these things will come to light. I just hopes it’s sooner rather than later for the sake of the American people. -
Everett Mann says:
Oigal, do you own a cell phone? Who invented it? Ever drive a car? Who first mass produced the automobile? Language, culture, media, art, literature, finance…the 20th century was the American century, and so will the 21st be, if we survive the Obammie-for-your-Mammie administration. The American Way is THE way. Anyone who has a problem with that has a problem with freedom. The very same internet you are using to bash on America was invented where?
Oh, and you’re going to hell because you’re gay and nobody loves you. Sorry. -
*Duck*
Oh, and you’re going to hell because you’re gay and nobody loves you. Sorry.
Ha ha… Oigal, he got you.
Kesian deh loe….
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Oigal,
I don’t think these people realize this is a site dedicated to Indonesia. You’d think it would be obvious, but some of my compatriots can be a little slow on the draw…
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ET says:
Everett Mann said
The American Way is THE way. Anyone who has a problem with that has a problem with freedom.
If I understand correctly the only way to freedom is the American way. A one-way freedom, so to speak. A freedom without choice.
Do they teach you that in America?
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Kent Jenkins says:
Either this Barry deal is false or we don’t have a single Republican anywhere in the world that can prove this funny story, which is it ? Republicans think they are so smart, prove it, lol. You guys don’t even have a leader and nobody even wants to be the leader of that whacked out group of Bald headed old white men, the Do nothings.
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Nurse Laura says:
I wonder if the issue of the birth certificate will state his (Barry Soetoro) correct race. Since his mother was white than techniquely he is WHITE! Isn’t that a kick in the hind quarters to those who looked to him only as the black savior they have been waiting for.
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ev says:
If his father was a citizen of the united kigdom and colonies and then Obama would also be a citizen under his father;s right as citizen. His father was never a natural born citizen. If his parents were married On February 2. 1961 and Obama was born later that year in August It woulld be she carried him for 6 months? And If They moved to Indonesia two years later he would be 3 not 2. Also if he was regesisted a s a foreind occudental student he would not have been american…..right?
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andhika says:
Obama is a very good president USA. I like Obama style.
Best regard
Andhika from Indonesia
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AlaskanInfidel says:
Barack is a Marxist. This much is clear. He intends to destroy the US economy in order to rebuild it in his Marxist vision.
He will fail. -
While in Indonesia Barry did not learn to speak Indonesian. He did however pick up some Arabic. Hmmm….
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Odinius Says:
May 3rd, 2009 at 10:51 pm
savtru: You need to actually read US law. Sorry to tell you, but far-right, racist conspiracy blogs aren’t a substitute.
Currently, Title 8 of the U.S. Code fills in those gaps. Section 1401 defines the following as people who are “citizens of the United States at birth:”
Anyone born inside the United States *
Any Indian or Eskimo born in the United States, provided being a citizen of the U.S. does not impair the person’s status as a citizen of the tribe
Any one born outside the United States, both of whose parents are citizens of the U.S., as long as one parent has lived in the U.S.
Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year and the other parent is a U.S. national
Any one born in a U.S. possession, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year
Any one found in the U.S. under the age of five, whose parentage cannot be determined, as long as proof of non-citizenship is not provided by age 21
Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)
A final, historical condition: a person born before 5/24/1934 of an alien father and a U.S. citizen mother who has lived in the U.S.
Do you need more proof?
How about Obama’s own GRANDMOTHER telling reporters she witnessed his birth in KENYA?