If Senator Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. was elected President of the United States (U.S.), what will happen in the U.S. and what does it mean for Indonesia? If he was elected the 44th president of this superpower, it is definitely a big family I Public Elementary School Menteng, Central Jakarta, will shout for joy Soria. We are the nation of Indonesia, most do not have a family bond with Illinois state senator this.
What the article? Obama's family history was once used to live in Jakarta. Hawaii-born Illinois senator (August 4, 1961) is also has another half brother's father (from Indonesia), Lolo Soetoro (died March 2, 1993), named Maya Soetoro-Ng. Up to now there are many friends of his childhood in the country that Senator Obama commemorate this.
Barack Obama became the world's attention because the main speech at the Democratic National Convention (2004), when he was a Illinois State Senator. That same year, he became the descendants of Africa (from Kenya) who won the first election to the Senate as a Democrat.
Barack Obama was born in Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii from father to be an economist graduated from Harvard University, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a Muslim from Kenya, Africa, and his mother Stanley Ann Dunham, from Wichita, Kansas. When Obama, Jr. was born, his parents were students at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA.
When two years old, his parents divorced. His father returned to Kenya and he only met his son once more before he died (1982). Widow Ann Obama then married Lolo Soetoro of the original people of Indonesia, also a student of East-West Center (MA Geography, 1962).
In his childhood, Barack Obama used the name 'Barry' and stay in Jakarta due to his stepfather brought to Indonesia. When Obama was 10 years old, he returned to Hawaii, raised his grandparents (Madelyn Dunham) and then his mother for a better education. He entered the fifth grade at Punahou School and graduated with honors (1979).
Alumnus of Harvard Law School (1988) who had studied at SDN Menteng I (1968) and Franciscus Assisi Primary School (SD Strada) in Menteng Dalam, Tebet this is a person who has a smart young multiethnic background. With a confident candidate to run for president of the United States, although the odds seemed still too heavy. However, at least the spirit of antiwar dikumandangkannya antirasisme and is promising the creation of world peace.
In an interview with the Associated Press (AP), Head First SDN Menteng Jakarta, Akmad Solikhin, admit, that based on school data, it is true that Obama was studying in school. To reinforce his statement, Solikhin show documents that record the biographical data forms for data Senator Obama, when registering at the school. In that data, the name of the black senator from the Democratic Party in U.S. history was written "Barry Soetoro", the son of Lulu Soetoro, geography department employee. Place and date of birth written Obama Honolulu, 4-8-61. It added that Obama is Indonesian citizenship and Muslim.
Description Solikhin is strengthened recognition Iis Darmawan (63). Obama's former teacher at the kindergarten (TK) was revealed that he remembered well the profile Obama as a child. "He's a child who is tall with curly hair and have the ability to quickly learn the local language as well as proficient in math. In fact, I remember, when he had made essay titled "I Want to Become President".
SDN Menteng I was known as one of the elite elementary school in Jakarta. The majority of carers of primary school students came from high society.
"We are proud to have had students like Obama. And I hope if he is elected President, U.S. relations with Indonesia grew stronger and he is able to provide new perspectives on Islam, "said Solikhin.
Sri Murtiningsih who also had been a teacher and has taught Obama at SDN Menteng I for 39 years, reveals, he has a strong recollection that Obama is left-handed boy. "Like other students, he followed the standard curriculum such as math, writing lessons, Indonesian language and in one week to receive religious instruction twice and sports," he explained.
Citing virtual encyclopaedia site, Wikipedia, Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father was Barack Hussein Obama Sr., Birth Alego, a village in Nyanza Province, Kenya and his mother Ann Dunham, of women born in Wichita, Kansas. When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced. Her father continued his study at Harvard University to take the title of "Ph.D." and then returned to Kenya. As for his mother remarried with foreign students from Indonesia, Lulu Soetoro.
By this new family, Obama moved to Jakarta and stayed for four years. He returned to Hawaii and lived with his grandfather's family. Obama's father died from a car crash in Kenya when Obama was 21 years old. The mother died a few months after Obama's biography published a book that made him very popular throughout the country, Dreams from My Father (1995).
Decision Barack Obama became a presidential candidate for Election 2008 was greeted with enthusiasm by Democrats and Republicans. He is considered to represent a new generation of U.S. politicians who will bring fresh ideas. His bid also will mark the "closing" a long history of racism in the land of Uncle Sam's.
Not because of the complex background (black father, white mother, and childhood partly in Indonesia) that makes the character so interesting. According to The Washington Post editorial (18 / 1), promise to change the paradigm of U.S. politics-a by the voters considered "filled with racial politics and political parties"-make the American people enthusiastic. "Obama represents hope the American people, rightly or not, that this country has arrived at one point, namely to overcome the history of racism," wrote the Post. If Obama is elected president, will create a new history; for the first time the U.S. president held a black-skinned citizens
