Here’s a jewel from the SADO article
...”Dunham worked as a program officer for the Ford Foundation and as research coordinator for Bank Rakyat Indonesia but was most at home in rural villages”
Sure doesn’t sound like her reason for doing anthropological survey works was her primary reason to be in Indonesia. But it was good cover to get out and see what was happening.
Link to article:
http://archives.starbulletin.com/2008/09/13/news/story09.html
“A woman of the people
A symposium recalls the efforts of Stanley Ann Dunham to aid the poor
By Susan Essoyan sessoyan@starbulletin.com
Barack Obama’s mother was remembered for her passion as well as her practicality, her devotion to detail and her global outlook, in a panel discussion yesterday at her alma mater, the University of Hawaii at Manoa. ....”