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Indonesia to remove Obama statue from public park
AFP ^ | February 5, 2010

Posted on 02/05/2010 6:32:53 AM PST by Zakeet

A statue of US President Barack Obama as a boy will be removed from a park in the Indonesian capital due to public opposition, officials said Friday, just weeks before Obama visits his old hometown.

The Jakarta governor's office confirmed that the two-metre (six-foot) bronze would be removed from Menteng Park and placed at the nearby Menteng One primary school where Obama spent part of his childhood in the late 1960s.

The decision comes after 56,500 people joined a page on social networking website Facebook calling for the statue to be removed and replaced by a memorial to an Indonesian identity.

"The Jakarta administration has decided to remove the Obama statue from Menteng Park and take it to his former school," city spokesman Cucu Ahmad Kurnia told AFP.

"We follow the aspirations of the people, who think that the removal of the statue to his former school is more appropriate."

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The statue of "Little Barry" -- as Obama was known to his Indonesian school friends -- was designed by Indonesian artists and depicts the boy Obama dressed in shorts and a T-shirt with a butterfly perched on his hand.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; indonesia; jakarta; muslimworld; nevermind; obama; statue
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To: Zakeet

Good grief. . .a ‘man-child’. . .


21 posted on 02/05/2010 7:22:57 AM PST by cricket
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To: Zakeet
'Indonesia to remove Obama statue from public park'


22 posted on 02/05/2010 7:23:41 AM PST by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits [A. Einstein])
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To: Between the Lines

bump for home


23 posted on 02/05/2010 7:25:25 AM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: cricket

It was a quick Photoshop ....


24 posted on 02/05/2010 7:25:40 AM PST by SkyDancer (But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father)
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To: SkyDancer
It was a quick Photoshop ....

Oh!

25 posted on 02/05/2010 7:36:08 AM PST by cricket
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To: Zakeet

Put in a garage or The Museum of Oddities.


26 posted on 02/05/2010 7:46:53 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Zakeet; All

Even the muzzies don’t want him around ;-)


27 posted on 02/05/2010 8:05:08 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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To: Zakeet
I'm sorry to read the statue will still be on display. It should be melted.
I hope the students will be allowed to vent whatever frustrations they have, on the statue. Spitballs, target practice etc...
28 posted on 02/05/2010 8:21:44 AM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Zakeet

It will surely turn up in Chicago in front of what’s left of Cabrini Green


29 posted on 02/05/2010 8:58:09 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Zakeet

FReepers should take up a collection and buy the statue.


30 posted on 02/05/2010 9:18:06 AM PST by reagandemocrat
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To: reagandemocrat
FReepers should take up a collection and buy the statue.

We already have a monument to the Big Wee Wee in my house.

31 posted on 02/05/2010 9:29:35 AM PST by Zakeet (The Big Wee Wee -- rapidly moving from WTF to FUBAR to SNAFU)
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To: Zakeet

Nice.

But how cool would it be to have the boy/messiah statue in your back yard to piss on?


32 posted on 02/05/2010 9:32:01 AM PST by reagandemocrat
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To: Zakeet

They won’t remove it — just threaten.

Obama is heading over to Indonesia in a couple of weeks with a bag of tax dollars — the Indonesian government won’t want to embarass him.


33 posted on 02/05/2010 10:49:52 AM PST by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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