Posted on 02/13/2010 10:35:13 AM PST by opentalk
The Central Jakarta administration will move the controversial "Little Barry" statue from its current location at Taman Menteng in Central Jakarta to state elementary school SDN 01 Menteng next week, an official says.
"We are currently discussing with officials from the school and its alumni association," city spokesman Cucu Ahmad Kurnia told reporters Friday. "We hope the move will happen next week."
US President Barack Obama attended the elementary school for almost two years when he spent part of his childhood in Jakarta.
Erected by the Jakarta-based Friends of Obama Foundation in December last year, the statue, which resembles Obama as a boy, recently sparked wide public criticism for insulting the nation's pride.
Just a few days after the Central Jakarta municipality unveiled the statue at Menteng Park, experts and a group of Facebook users demanded it be dismantled.
On Wednesday, the Central Jakarta District Court held a hearing to try a class action lawsuit by five plaintiffs representing 50,000 members of the "Take down the Barack Obama statue from Menteng Park" group on Facebook.
The five plaintiffs - Heru Nugroho, Protus Tanuhandaru, Daniel Rudi Haryanto, Andes Soesman and FX Agung Bimo Sutedjo - filed the suit against Jakarta governor, Central Jakarta mayor and the Jakarta Parks and Cemeteries Agency, saying the statue didn't deserve a place at the park and should be immediately removed.
Although appreciating the administration's plan to remove the statue, Heru said the group would go ahead with its lawsuit.
"We will only withdraw the lawsuit if the city administration publicly apologizes for its one-sided decision to permit the statue," he told The Jakarta Post.
Hawaiian-born Obama moved to Indonesia at the age of six to live with his mother, Ann Dunham, and Indonesian stepfather Lolo Soetoro.
Obama attended third grade at the school in 1968. He returned to Hawaii at the age of 10 to live with his maternal grandparents.
At the time Barry Soetoro was in Indonesia, all Indonesian students were required to carry government identity cards or Karty Tanda Pendudaks, as well as family card identification called a Kartu Keluarga. The Kartu Keluarga is a family card which bears the legal names and citizenship status of all family members.
. . . . Check out article - and #2 and #3.
[Thanks, Fred Nerks.]
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Hawaiian-born Obama moved to Indonesia at the age of six to live with his mother, Ann Dunham, and Indonesian stepfather Lolo Soetoro.
Obama attended third grade at the school in 1968. He returned to Hawaii at the age of 10 to live with his maternal grandparents.
More questions with each article.
He only attended school there for 2 years??? What did he do the other years? Then of course, they say he attended 3rd grade in 1968 and we also have a photo of him in 3rd grade in Hawaii.
The picture -- with the words "Scott & Barry 3rd grade 1969" scribbled at the bottom by Inoue's mother -- shows Obama almost a head taller than Inoue, with their arms around each other.
http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20091228_third_grade_photo_captures_obamas_grin.html
According to Ann and Lolo’s divorce, Hussein is the “oldest child in university” and Maya is the child in “both mother and child are U.S. citizens while father is an Indonesian citizen.” That would lead one to believe that Hussein is still considered a US citizen from the US court’s point of view.
http://theobamafile.com/_images/SoetoroChildCare2.jpg
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On February 9th, 2010, I received the following email from "Northeast Elizabeth":
On your site's "Education" page, you post a photograph identified as "Barry, 3rd Grade, 1969" which is identical to this one appearing in the Honolulu Star Bulletin in December, 2009 (in an article revealing that Obama spent at least part of third grade in Hawaii and not solely Jakarta as widely reported). Did you add it to your site after that date, or was it there before? I ask because in the article, Obama's former classmate Scott Inoue indicates that he didn't receive the photo back from Obama until November 2009, and I had assumed that Star's publication of the picture the next month would have been the first appearance of it. However, the page on your site on which it appears indicates copyright, Beckwith, 2008" at the bottom so I wasn't sure if it was from back then (and if so, how you would have it if it were a private picture of Inoue's, unless Inoue got it elsewhere and was playing a trick).
Unfortunately, I have no memory of when I added that photo. However, I checked the properties on that image and it was created on Sunday, October 18, 2009 -- so it was clearly before. So, I had it before it was returned to Inoue in November, 2009.
However, it's clear I acquired the photo without the back story, prompting me to archive the photo as an Indonesian-Besuki-period artifact.
Somehow, I missed the Star Bulletin report. This was the first I'd heard of Obama being in the 3rd grade -- and in Hawaii? He was supposed to be in Indonesia -- the report contradicts Obama's own autobiography, as well as multiple biographies, that say he attended grades 1 through 5 in Jakarta, Indonesia. From the report:
The picture taken on Jan. 21, 2009 shows a combined photo of the past and the present United States President Barack Obama and his schoolmates at SDN Menteng 01 elementary school where U.S. President Barack Obama studied during his time in Indonesia in Jakarta.(Xinhua/Yue Yuewei)
Looks like Scott and Obama went to school in Indonesia together too...
FREE THE BC!!!...
Surely, someone has the 3rd grade picture showing the whole class.
1967 to 72 - the years Maya says Hussein was in Indonesia
1967 - Kindergarten picture in HI. To make the age correct (age 5 = 196-67 school year), it would have to have been taken in the springtime however some claim he was only there 2-3 months before the move to Indonesia.
1968 - article about statue claims he attended 3rd grade in Jarkarta and there almost two years. Smart kid to go from kindergarten to 3rd grade the next year.
1969 - Picture of “Scott & Barry 3rd grade 1969” classmates at Noelani Elementary School, HI. Fall ‘69 would be accurate for an 8 year old 3rd grader.
1970 - ?
1971 - ? - Maya born in Jakarta but later obtains a HI COLB.
1972 - Some accounts say Ann took him back to HI in ‘71 but some say ‘72. Note the airport pictures with Sr. are at Christmas so perhaps everyone arrived sometime around Dec. ‘71 or Jan. ‘72 when he was 10.
So he was a homo even then.
Wait just a minute.
Is that Scotty-boy in the Indonesian picture? Hussein’s head is suspiciously enormous.
The Scott and Barry 3rd grade picture has Christmas trees behind them and is supposed to be in Manoa, HI.
Weaving webs and deception.
Sure does, what a tangled web they weave, the question is... if there is nothing to hide, why? I can tell you why. The biggest fraud ever perpetuated in the United States.
the same little chinese boy also appears in the above image IMO. He's on the far left, bottom row.
Any idea who the 50-ish tall white dude might be?
http://english.sina.com/world/p/2009/0121/213301.html
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He ALSO attended 3rd grade at the Asisi school:
Barack Hussein Obama was registered under the name “Barry Soetoro” serial number 203 and entered the Franciscan Asisi Primary School on 1 January 1968 and sat in class 1B.
Barry attended the Franciscan Asisi Primary School for three years until class 3 afterwards his family moved house from H Ramir Street to Dempo Street where he attended Besuki Primary School for one year before departing to Hawaii.
http://laotze.blogspot.com/2007/01/tracking-down-obama-in-indonesia-part-3.html
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