“She wasn’t the typical expat, who just experienced Indonesia from behind the windows of a chauffeur-driven limousine,” said author and columnist Julia Suryakusuma, who became a friend of Obama’s mother Ann Dunham in 1981.įor a six-year-old Obama too, the chaotic tropical nation clearly had an impact when he arrived with his mother, then 24, from Hawaii to join his Indonesian stepfather Lolo Soetoro. ![]() While her son left after four years to study in Hawaii, for the Kansas-born mother of the Democratic Party presidential hopeful the relationship with Indonesia was to grow into a lifetime affair.Įschewing many of the cocktail parties and golf-type events in the expatriate community, friends said she tried to dig deep into the local culture and made many Indonesian friends. Obama’s late mother came to Indonesia with her young son in the late 1960s to join her second husband knowing next to nothing about the huge, developing Southeast Asian nation. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) (R) is seen with his step-father Lolo Soetoro (L), his sister Maya Soetoro and his mother Ann Dunham (C) in an undated family snapshot released by his presidential campaign, February 4, 2008.
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