Yep. My uncle through marriage is phillipino. There is a subtle similarity I see in Obama there too especially around the mouth area/smile, but there are also two traits that show African heritage imo and that is his voice inflection and the subtle skin tone difference which is less olive and more pure brown/black. If that makes sense lol!
funny you should mentin the voice - thre's a video clip of the guy in Jakarta - close your ryes and you'd think it was The Won