Posted on 06/24/2017 10:34:30 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
UBUD, Indonesia (AFP) - Barack Obama has kicked off a 10-day family holiday in Indonesia that will take in Bali and Jakarta, the city where he spent part of his childhood, officials said on Saturday (June 24).
The casually dressed former president arrived in the resort island of Bali with his wife Michelle and their two daughters, a local military commander said.
"They arrived late last night and went straight to the hotel in Ubud," a local military commander, I Gede Widiyana, told AFP.
Obama woke up early and did some exercise in the lush green riverside resort, Widiyana said, but it was not known how the family would spend their time in the quiet and artsy Ubud area. Get The Straits Times newsletters in your inbox Sign Up
Next week, the family is slated to depart for Yogyakarta, where they are expected to visit ancient Borobudur temple. They will spend two days there before flying to Jakarta.
Obama spent four years until 1970 as a boy in the then sleepy capital of Indonesia after his divorced mother married an Indonesian.
Many Indonesians felt a strong bond with Obama because of his exposure to Indonesia and its culture, even making him a 2m bronze statue that was placed in his former school.
The statue of "Little Barry" - as Obama was known to his Indonesian school friends - depicts the boy Obama dressed in shorts and a T-shirt with a butterfly perched on his hand.
Indonesia's foreign ministry said Obama's visit to holiday in Indonesia came after several invitations from President Joko Widodo.
While in the capital, Obama will meet the president on June 30 and give a speech at an Indonesian diaspora convention the next day.
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Obama likes to skewer the chicken sashey...
Who is paying for this well-deserved vacation?
Hope the spooks at Pine Gap will be “taping” the chit-chat.
Meetng up with his tranny nanny?
Endless vacations. Either this guy is super lazy or we don’t have an extradition treaty with Indonesia.
That’s it Barry Soetoro, get your vacation-time in now.
Once you put on the orange jumpsuit, there will be less diverrrrrsity in your life. Though, in time, your mind can drift to the fascinating variety of textures in concrete walls.
It’s called Dineesh D’Sousa’s revenge.
Have a happy and productive day.
Wasn’t he just on vacation in Tahiti or Fiji or someplace?
would it be unfair to suggest that Congress move to cap the annual vacation travel expenditures a former president can make per annum?
Only ten days Barry?
Another of his vacay destinations with a huge sex business for the tourists.
Wow, Malia’s been on the job maybe 3 months and she already has vacation time.
If the press interferes with his meal:
Obama: "Why can't I just eat my dog?"
Yeah, and he was back just long enough to tweet to his supposedly 53 million followers something about “meanness”, I think.
gag me
“another chapter to “The Story of O”
The man without a country.
Methinks he attempts to sponge more of taxpayers’ funds. How many SS men has he in his entourage, their pay, room, board, vehicles, etc, etc, etc, must be damned expensive wasting money US doesn’t have. One more day out of the country, 12 little black homeless boys will be unfed for a month.
Has anyone seen his dogs since they had the #125,000 walker when Hussein “occupied” the WH?
It’s the endless vacation for these people.
Another sausage party like Tahiti???
As far as I know the dogs have been MIA. I can't see Val Jar walking them, let alone cleaning up their poop. She's a muzzie. They hate dogs, and since she's living in the Obama home in Maryland, the dogs have probably been given to someone else.
Correction: Obamas MOVE to Bali. That’d work for me.
Are LaVar and Lonzo there? < / s>
Do they serve watermelon and baked possum in Indonesia?
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