According to his school registration in Indonesia, Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu and at the time of registration was a citizen of Indonesia. His surname is listed as "Soetoro," not Obama and not Dunham. (And by the way, this statement as to his place of birth is one of the circumstances pointing to that he was indeed born in Hawaii, as I suggested in my earlier post.)
Did they lie on the school registration form as to whether Barry was a citizen of Indonesia? Did they lie as to whether his name was really Soetoro? Maybe. Or maybe not.
Given the fact of the statments made on this school registration, an unbiased person would, to my mind, need to seriously consider the possibility that all of the statements on the school registration are in fact correct. In fact, considering all of the circumstances we know of, I think it likely that they are.
I think it quite possible, even likely, that Lolo Soetoro adopted Barry either in Hawaii at the time of his marriage to Ann or later by acknowledgement to the Indonesian authorities.
This may well have been part of the deal when Ann married Lolo, that he would also become a father to Barry.
From all that has come out so far about Ann and Obama Sr's relationship, a case of abandonment by Obama Sr. would appear to have been a slam dunk, so his consent would not have been necessary to the adoption. And if any such form was sent to him, he might well have ignored it, as he appeared to ignore for several years the entire fact of his marriage to Ann and his having had a child by her.
How old exactly was Obama when any such adoption may have occurred? 5? 6? 4? We don't know.
I would suggest it probably did not matter much. Maybe when they moved to Indonesia, Lolo gave a statement to the Indonesian bureaucrat that he had adopted Barry when he was four, even though Barry may have been five at the time. People are quick to assume that Lolo lied on the school registration form, but maybe instead it was that he fudged the year when he adopted Barry.
Or maybe not. I think it would not have been necessary to lie anyway.
One has to keep in mind the political circumstances in Indonesia at the time.
Lolo was a person in a very high status category. He was highly educated, he was an ethnic Javanese (and NOT ethnic Chinese - very important), he was a skilled professional (geologist) of the kind that the regime desperately wanted, he held an important position in the Indonesian Army, and his family was known to have resisted the Dutch colonialists. The Indonesian government wanted Lolo so badly that they insisted he move back there from Hawaii.
So I don't think it is even necessary to assume that Lolo gave fudged information to an Indonesian bureaucrat in order to get Barry Indonesian citizenship. In a third world autocracy, who you are is always the most important thing vis-a-vis the government bureaucracy.
If Lolo applied to the government department for Indonesian citizenship for a small child he had acknowledged was his adopted son, the last thing a government bureaucrat would do in the case of someone of Lolo's favored status would be to quibble over a year.
So I think it likely that the statements on the school registration are in fact correct. We can't know for certain based on the limited facts available for analysis. We would have to have access to the government records of Indonesia. The party line now by Obama and the Indonesian government is that Obama was never a citizen of Indonesia, but no one can seriously take that as conclusive given all of the other falsehoods and concealments that surround Obama's background. What deal or deals has Obama made with the regime in Indonesia? We don't know.
Of course, that never stops blowhards from making categorical statements as if they had omniscient access to all relevant facts. Best to ignore them.