Whoa! Who says there are no records? There may very well be records, but we would certainly not be privy to them. Adoptions are SECRET. There is many pages in Hawaiian Adoption law regarding the secrecy surrounding an adoption. They are not permitted to divulge any information to people outside of the process. I suspect the laws in Indonesia are similar.
Apart from that, it has been alleged repeatedly that Under Indonesian law, Legal Adoption is AUTOMATIC if the child is less than 5 years of age. Apparently under Indonesian law, a "Casual" adoption is equivalent to a LEGAL adoption.
Of course they would have told the school in Indonesia that Lolo was his father or adoptive father so he could attend. This doesn’t mean it was legal. My oldest attended private school under his not-legal stepfather’s last name.
Again, If what has been alleged about Indonesian law is true, there is no difference between a "Casual" Adoption and a full fledged legal, went to court, adoption. Anyone out there able to confirm this aspect of Indonesian law in the early 1960s?
I just thought of this in my previous post, too: what if he was legally adopted by Soetoro in Indonesia (this automatic under age 5 thing included), but they never even told the USA about this adoption? Maybe he came back here as whatever kind of "US citizen" he was as a toddler, and never mentioned in this country that he was a citizen of Indonesia with a different name entirely.