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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Good grief. . .a ‘man-child’. . .
'Indonesia to remove Obama statue from public park'
bump for home
It was a quick Photoshop ....
Oh!
Put in a garage or The Museum of Oddities.
Even the muzzies don’t want him around ;-)
It will surely turn up in Chicago in front of what’s left of Cabrini Green
FReepers should take up a collection and buy the statue.
We already have a monument to the Big Wee Wee in my house.
Nice.
But how cool would it be to have the boy/messiah statue in your back yard to piss on?
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.
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