This parang rusak batik design can apparently look similar to the serpent-like design in the ring.
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Parang DesignParang was once used exclusively by the royal courts of Central Java. It has several suggested meanings such as 'rugged rock', 'knife pattern' or 'broken blade'.
The Parang design consists of slanting rows of thick knife-like segments running in parallel diagonal bands. Parang usually alternated with narrower bands in a darker contrasting color. These darker bands contain another design element, a line of lozenge-shaped motifs call mlinjon. There are many variations of this basic striped pattern with its elegant sweeping lines, with over forty parangdesigns recorded.
The most famous is the 'Parang Rusak' which in its most classical form consisting of rows of softly folded parang. This motif also appears in media other than batik, including woodcarving and as ornamentation on gamelan musical instruments.
I have searched for Indonesian jewelry which incorporates the “similar to serpent design” on Obamas ring. I found nothing. Indonesian jewelery is nature oriented, based on flowers and other natural shapes.
The nearest one can come to jewelry with the serpent like design as posited can be found in Bedouin perfume holders and other pieces.Indonesian jewelery does not have it , I could find none.
There is no serpent pattern on Obama’s ring, it is, IMHO, a gold reproduction of an elephant hair ring or bracelet.
These small details are important in Obama’s carefully crafted public image. He closets his national socialist black power ideology , learned in the church of Rev. Wright over a 20 year period, of Afro American superiority, and historic justice for the allegedly exploited.
That kind of jewelery would be the emulation of the elephant hair piece, which Obama’s ring does.
The elephant hair bracelet is prevalent among black power advocates in the USA.
The pattern is easily recognizable here:
http://www.furnituresourceelpaso.com/ProductsBKPJ/BKPJproducts.htm