SE Mom, It doesn’t look valid to me. I can’t be sure because there are things about Indo that I don’t know. But all the Indo forms I have seen filled out have an official stamp on them. I don’t see that on this page. Nor is there any place for an official signature.
I wish it was enlarged. Also, I’d like to see the back page.
A second thing though is that it is filled out in cursive. Nope. Not legal. Everything must be printed.
Third, there are blank spaces on that form. That is another no-no, in my experience. Writing must start in the first block on the left and have everything filled. There are crucial questions blank which should have been answered or an explanation given.
These things raise red flags to me in authenticity. But again, I’ve only lived in Indo for 13 years and can’t be sure.
Would all those things hold for a registration form for a private school? Wouldn’t the school set the rules on how to fill out their own form? I don’t know, I’ve only been a Catholic my whole life.
The "more modern system" is a data base without a file of actual source documents. Kind of like almost all the systems in the US.
So, I concur in the thought that the Indo form is real, possibly, but the contents were concocted by a mischiefmaker.
Thank you for your input. Keep in mind that this was over thiry years ago and it was a private school- meaning they may have done things differently.
It doesn't purport to be an official government document. It's merely a record kept by a school.
I don't see any reason to doubt its authenticity. It confirms he was going by "Barry" at that time and it echoes his birth place and date. Which means the birth coverup, if it is a coverup, got an early start.
Here's an excerpt from an article in the Jakarta Post:
Israella Darmawan is every inch a teacher, from her shiny cap of black hair to her sensible shoes. In an office at the Fransiskus Assisi School, she shows me an old register with an entry for Barry Soetoro, as Barack Obama was know then. Bu Is taught Obama in the first grade. She admits she doesn't remember all her students well, but Barry ... well, he stood out."He really was different from the others. He was tall and heavy, black skin, curly hair."
Obama struggled with Indonesian, she says, but he was clearly a bright kid, especially at math. He had natural leadership qualities, she adds; other kids followed him around during playtime. "Barack ran somewhere, they went. He ran somewhere else, they followed."
It's not a government document, it's a private school registration document. The nuns or "brothers" probably had other ideas about the requirements for filling out a list, than government bureaucrats, then or now.