Barry Soetoro

Nov 6th, 2008, in Opinion, by

Barry 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 Obama’s own words:

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”

  1. Ken Thurston says:

    Obama has no right to be president. And as far as religion, he has never renounced his radical Islamic beliefs. Why did he not bring his wife recently to Mideast countries? Because Islamic law forbids it. Why did Obama, or Soetoro, bow to the King of Saudi Arabia? Because he is Muslim.

  2. Oigal says:

    He has given support to would be tyrants, (Honduras) decried American Exceptionalism, virtually destroyed the auto industry, bowed to the King of the Wahabis…

    As opposed to the Bush Regime? As for the US Auto industry it’s been a zombie for decades.

    But hey this is fun, our very own conspiracy nutters page, I always thought it was a bit of a myth.

  3. AlaskanInfidel says:

    Your use of the word “regime” tells it all. Have fun with your fantasies. I would show you some facts and figures regarding the auto industry, but I know how liberals react to the Truth. They ignore it and invent their own version thereof. So again…have fun…
    I just pray that we don’t go the way of Zimbabwe.
    You do realize that the Obama admin. has spent over 11 trillion dollars since he came in to office. (Notice I didn’t say the Obama “regime”. That’s cause I know better.) That’s over a trillion a month. Have you also noticed that the deficit is now over 3 times higher than it has EVER been. Is that a good thing in your inadequate eyes?…cause clearly you can’t see worth a shit.
    Name a tyrant, a would be dictator that the “Bush regime” supported. You cant’. But..Obama supports Zelaya.
    Do you really want to see the stats for the auto industry?

    You know of some instance of Bush decrying American Exceptionalism? You perhaps then can show some evidence of Bush trashing the auto industry…yea?
    How about an example of Bush bowing to a foreign leader? Got any? Ever hear Bush say that he is not interested in “victory” when discussing war? No.
    How many Communists did Bush appoint to positions in the WH? How many fans of NAMBLA did you see walking the halls of the White House? None. The “safe schools Czar”…one of his heroes is the founder of NAMBLA… The twit also says that our school systems are “actively recruiting children to be heterosexual”. WTF does that mean?!
    Anita Dunn…thinks that Mao was a great philosopher when in fact he was one of the worlds most prolific mass murderers.
    If you hate America then you must love his Commies of choice, his radicals of choice.
    I tend to judge people by the company they keep. How ’bout you?
    Keep chuggin’ that Kool-aid and it’ll kill every last freedom you have left.
    The myth is that Obama gives a damn about you or me. He seeks power and if you can’t see that then it’s because you refuse to. Truth does not come from one party or another…it just is.

    Obama is a liar and Truth is
    killing his Marxist agenda.

  4. DJ says:

    Well said AlaskanInfidel

  5. ew_keane says:

    Dear Rick,

    Thanks for the kind compliment.

    There exists an old article http://my.auburnjournal.com/detail/132504.html
    where the person in question is described as the Kenyan born senatorial candidate (when running against Ryan). When I finaly get my hands on a newsprint version of it I plan on taking it over to the local democrats and asking them to explain just how they could run a foreign national as a presidential candidate.

    I can see this thing smashing the democratic party forever.

    I am sorry to read that you had problems with the banking cabal collection agency (IRS), but since I have nothing for them to get their hands on, and won’t go to jail, I dont care about them. I am one of those few (but growing) segements of the demographic I call “those who have nothing to loose”.

    Making yourself judgement proof (because lawyers won’t sue poor people) isn’t easy. But, If having less cash and toys and junk means having more time to read, talk to people, blog and fight international communism then I think its worth it. Others do, too.

    The amish are four-square, and have put their faith in god and the natural world of creation. (at least the old order, I understand) Good for them, and a sustainable culture to be sure.

    Regional alliances, in my opinion, are just a means to trammel the aims of the internationalists, a means to preserve the union until the traitors and subversive foreign nationals can be purged from this land.
    The focus of any national reform is for states to get the major urban centers (NY, Chicago, LA, ect) into line, that is to say, to reballance political power. Big cities have too much say, that has to change.

    Your cite of Omar Khayyam is spot on, thanks again.
    Also, here is a link that you may find to be interesting and useful:
    http://www.militiaradio.com/

  6. Rick Fontes says:

    Keane – Thanks for the 411 on militiaradio.

    I, too, am moving toward an “off the economy” lifestyle and would suggest that anyone who desires to wage a personal battle against the system attempt to move in that direction.

    As you must know from personal experience, it isn’t an easy task. We have been a “labor for cash culture” since the industrial revolution and technology has placed self reliance far beyond the reach of most consumers.

    100 or so years ago a person could pretty much make or repair anything he needed for day to day living. Today’s planned obsolescence makes us dependent on “experts” for just about everything we use. When the “check engine” light comes on most folks are lost without a professional mechanic.

    Obviously not everyone has the means or mentality to “go back to the land” but there must be some finite tipping point, a number which if reached by that percentage of the population, would deny the beast its required feedings.

    As for having nothing to lose, remember the words of that great musical philosopher, Kris Kristofferson, “Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.” I nearly attributed this to Janis Joplin since I prefer her version of the song, but she didn’t write it.

    Here in hurricane country we are often graphically reminded that the willow tree survives the storm while the oak tree often does not.

    Keep the faith.

  7. ew_keane says:

    Lastly, the trail closes and the plot thickens;
    http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm

    Havent found a retraction or hard copy newsprint (yet).

    You too, Rick.

  8. Lairedion says:

    Brilliant stuff here. Keep it going, guys…

  9. Rick Fontes says:

    Keane, you rival Bulldog Drummond. Very interesting reading.

    A little “Devil’s Advocate” if you please. Supposing that it is proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, whether by foreign birth or renounced citizenship, that Mr. Obama is not qualified to serve as POTUS. What then? What happens to all the legislation he has signed and the appointments he has made?

    I am a staunch defender of the American way of life and the Constitution of this land but is it quite possible that removing the Prez from office might prove to be a pyrrhic victory?

    It would certainly make for great theater but this is wholly uncharted territory. I don’t have any answers and, throughout the campaign, I was constantly telling anyone within earshot to listen to what he was saying and to weigh his words against his past record.

    Several years ago the country music star Merle Haggard sang “Rainbow Stew.” One of the lines went, “When a President goes through the White House door and does what he says he’ll do, We’ll all be drinking that free Bubble Up and eating Rainbow Stew.”

    It’s Bubble Up and Rainbow Stew time because this President is doing exactly what he said he’d do. Obviously It isn’t what most of his supporters HEARD but it is definitely what he SAID.

    Still, the question remains: What happens if he is removed from office?

  10. xperimentality says:

    Rick,

    Help me out here. When, during his campaign, did Mr. Obama say that he would be spending hundreds of TRILLIONS of dollars on bogus government programs hidden within what he labeled an economic recovery program?

    And when did he say that he was going to go ahead and let the Iraq and Afghan conflicts continue on as they were and even consider deployment of more troops?

    Can you cut me out an article or two detailing those moments in his campaign?

    Thanks.

  11. Oigal says:

    Did i miss something? Don’t spending programs have to be approved by congress and those gazillion of other elected representatives or is it in the US once you are Prez you just get a key to a big box in the back shed full of cash.

    You are right “L” this is great stuff. We should get PPT here 🙂

  12. Cukurungan says:

    Obama has no right to be president. And as far as religion, he has never renounced his radical Islamic beliefs. Why did he not bring his wife recently to Mideast countries? Because Islamic law forbids it. Why did Obama, or Soetoro, bow to the King of Saudi Arabia? Because he is Muslim.

    OBAMA is not muslim but he is a half muslim and a half christian. However, God having a good plan for American people, before American is ready to wear burqa & SARONG and having a real Muslim President, GOD sent Obama in advance to give chance for American adjusting their lifestyle.

  13. Oigal says:

    Oh Well if you can’t have a PTT you have a Cuk..PPT Lite if you will :-).

    I can almost hear the banjos strumming up for a counter attack.

  14. Lairedion says:

    Yeah Rick Fontes, xperimentality, ew_keane, show us what you’ve got. 🙂

    I already put militiaradio.com in my bookmarks. Fascinating site. I saw an article by David Icke, the one who believes the world run by a bunch of reptilians disguised as humans.

  15. Oigal says:

    I already put militiaradio.com in my bookmarks. Fascinating site. I saw an article by David Icke, the one who believes the world run by a bunch of reptilians disguised as humans.

    Laugh serious? 🙂

    In fact, there was a tv show back in the eighties (?) which was based on that..mmmmmm.. Now what was that called?

  16. Oigal says:

    Sometimes you really scare me me Patung!!

  17. Lairedion says:

    V, great show. Have the complete series on DVD. That female reptilian was really hot when she wore the human tissue…. 🙂

  18. Rick Fontes says:

    Let me preface by saying that the only position I can write from is personal opinion, formed by observing events, past and current and through filtering the opinions of others.

    Mr. Obama, during his campaign for the presidency, famously said that he would “fundamentally change the United States of America.” He spoke with great specificity of those individuals whose aid he would enlist and whose advice he would seek.

    The trillions being spent and those “bogus programs” are part of an apparent effort to destroy the US economy in order to facilitate the leveling of the world wide economic system.

    The overall Progressive goal, beginning with Woodrow Wilson, has been to create a one world governing body. Mr. Obama et al, believe they have an opportunity to make a “Great Leap Forward” toward those ends.

    Fortunately there are still vestiges of that pesky little thing called the constitution standing in their way.

    The 2010 elections provide an opportunity to place some speed bumps, if not road blocks, in the path of the progressive agenda. That, of course is like the County Morgue: “Remains to be seen.”

  19. Lairedion says:

    Well, I’m thankful, and perhaps I can speak on behalf on other regular participants here, you guys use an Indonesia-related website for voicing your viewpoints and opinions.

    I can imagine you guys walk around in military-style clothing, engage in boot camps and combat training to anticipate on a possible invasion of the US by UN troops.

  20. Rick Fontes says:

    I can’t speak for anyone else but I am personally far from being a militant. My favorite political philosopher would not be Chairman Mao but, rather Mohandas Ghandi.

    If there were to be an invasion by UN troops, our Prez would probably react like Milo Minderbinder in Heller’s “Catch 22” and order our military to assist them.

    The reason I first came to this website was because Mr. Obama was adopted by an Indonesian citizen, spent several of his formative years as a resident there and is said to be, or have been, a citizen of Indonesia. I had hoped that someone, native to the country, would weigh in on the subject and either confirm or refute his Indonesian citizenship status through relevant citation to verifiable sources.

    I am an ordinary US citizen who would like to see these mysteries cleared up one way or the other.

    I suppose this whole matter of Obama’s citizenship, just as with our 21st President, Chester A. Arthur, will eventually be made moot by the passage of time.

    One can only hope that it happens before there is irreparable damage to our economy and body of constitutional law.

  21. BrotherMouzone says:

    I had hoped that someone, native to the country, would weigh in on the subject and either confirm or refute his Indonesian citizenship status through relevant citation to verifiable sources.

    Awful difficult to prove a negative but the utter absence of any documentation suggesting Barry was ever an Indonesian citizen should be proof enough.

    As any expatriate in Indonesia will tell you, where Indonesian immigration and citizenship are concerned, there is always paperwork (the more the better).

    Anyway, more importantly, I have his school transcript from his time in Menteng which clearly states his religion as “Islam” and his father simply as “Osama B.L.”. The bidding starts at $500,000 and delivery will be made as soon as I figure out how to do layers on Photoshop.

  22. Oigal says:

    Anyway, more importantly, I have his school transcript from his time in Menteng which clearly states his religion as “Islam” and his father simply as “Osama B.L.”. The bidding starts at $500,000 and delivery will be made as soon as I figure out how to do layers on Photoshop.

    Ah BM..No need to do that we both know there is no documentation of any kind that cannot be bought at discount prices here in the land of orang kaya.

    Would anyone but the most foolish place any value on such documents even if they were produced?

  23. Rick Fontes says:

    A person can’t walk across a field covered with freshly fallen snow without leaving tracks. Similarly, one does not pass through this life without leaving traces of that passage behind.

    If there is no trail to be found, it suggests that the tracks have been obliterated. This then raises the question of why.

    That Barry Soetoro attended school in Indonesia is not in dispute. What seems to be obfuscated are the facts concerning his citizenship during and after his sojourn in Indonesia.

    There are those who claim he was born in Kenya. Others who affirm that he was born in Hawaii.

    Some say that he was granted citizenship in Indonesia and has traveled on an Indonesian passport.

    Others make the case that his first entry into higher education, in the US, was as a “foreign student.”

    Whether these are matters of great concern or merely distractions depends on one’s individual mindset. The point remains that there has to be a solid paper trail, which would either prove or disprove any of the allegations. Beyond the publication of a Hawaiian certificate of live birth, the paper trail seems to be non existent.

    Perhaps the time has come to turn the matter over to our UFO hunting friends in the tin foil hats.

  24. Oigal says:

    Some say that he was granted citizenship in Indonesia and has traveled on an Indonesian passport.

    Rick I would suggest, in all good faith, that you don’t know or understand the Indonesian System of Administration and to seek plots or counter plots due to paperwork or even lack there of would be very foolish.

    As for a anyone being granted citizenship in Indonesia…thats really out there…Indonesia just doesn’t fling them about I can assure you.

  25. Rick Fontes says:

    Oigal, Thank you for your contribution to my edification.

    You are absolutely correct. I know nothing about the inner workings of governmental systems in Indonesia. That is precisely why I came to this site in the first place.

    It was in hopes that someone would shed more light than heat on a subject concerning my President, a former resident of that country.

    The citizenship question arises from the fact that Mr. Obama was formally adopted by an Indonesian and lived there for several years under his adopted name.

    It has been reported, whether true or false, that this would not have been possible had he not been granted citizenship.

    If I knew whether or not that was true, I would not have been asking.

    Could you inform me on that particular aspect of Indonesian law, or point a direction that one might go to research the subject?

    Again, thanks for your input.

  26. Oigal says:

    In truth, no more than what you would find by searching the internet. Even then laws, regulations and application there of are somewhat “inconsistent” in application.

    Even so, the one the thing that is constant is the great difficulty (read near impossible) it getting Indonesian Citizenship granted. You could count on one the number issued in past decade for instance.

    Given the Big “O” relative low status in Indonesia at the time, It would not have happened.

    Of course, that doesn’t negate the key point from my perspective..Who cares? He got elected far n sqaure (more than could be said for the last bloke). Perhaps time to get over it and besides fairly sure there is another election planned in the future, so if people don’t like him, vote for someone else.

  27. ew_keane says:

    If Obama were taken from office, then the scum below would rise to the top, in succession as prescribed by someones interperation of the will of the represented persons of the united states.

    The next big question is, who would be cought in the scandle of a political party that would run a foreign national as president, and served up millions of dollars to have their will imposed on the people of the land?

    Who would be shamed? And, who would hang?

  28. Burung Koel says:

    I am a staunch defender of the American way of life and the Constitution of this land

    Thanks Rick – good to hear.

    Can you tell me what you did when the 43rd President was recently trampling all over your Constitution? Were you as up in arms as you seem to be about the 44th President?

  29. Rick fontes says:

    Burung, Thank you for your response.

    Up in arms over bush 43? Absolutely. Article one, Section eight, of the US Constitution (the Enumerated Powers Clause) sets forth the limits of power for our Federal Government. Mr. Bush and his minions did as much, if not more, to circumvent the limits placed on government than did any other administration in history of the USA.

    The abuses perpetrated against the US constitution, and by extension, the citizenry, in a quest for power and profit, are far too numerous to list in a forum such as this.

    It didn’t begin with this current administration. Our history is replete with examples of government using heavy handed methods to achieve its ends. Manifest Destiny; Indian Relocation; Japanese Internment; The Chinese Exclusion Act; Reconstruction, to name but a very few.

    President Obama is not the first, and will probably not be the last, to ignore his oath to uphold and defend the constitution. This might be considered somewhat more egregious in the case of Mr. Obama, given that he is a constitutional scholar.

    In my opinion, Mr. Bush did what he did for the basest of reasons, financial gain. My impression is that his motivation was to enhance the fortunes of his family and friends at the expense of good governance.

    I feel that Mr. Obama hears a higher calling and truly believes that his vision for a world united against all the woes of mankind can only be achieved by America abandoning any pretense of being exceptional,

    This position is the antithesis of free enterprise and limited government, as envisioned by our founders.

    Perhaps we are witnessing a paradigm shift in the American experience. Only time will tell.

    Administrations come and administrations go and history is a very long play.

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