Since there are no records at all of Lolo adopting Barack, I assume that it was a “casual” and not legal adoption. Most stepparents do this. Plenty of times the child takes the last name just to be the same as the rest of the family, but no adoption legally takes place.
Of course they would have told the school in Indonesia that Lolo was his father or adoptive father so he could attend. This doesn’t mean it was legal. My oldest attended private school under his not-legal stepfather’s last name.
It is true he may have just used the name Soetoro and not have been legally adopted, but again, why would Lolo risk that? If it was illegal and each child had to carry a Gov issued ID?
OH MY! I just got it! THAT is when bo first learned about using forged or false docs........
Whoa! Who says there are no records? There may very well be records, but we would certainly not be privy to them. Adoptions are SECRET. There is many pages in Hawaiian Adoption law regarding the secrecy surrounding an adoption. They are not permitted to divulge any information to people outside of the process. I suspect the laws in Indonesia are similar.
Apart from that, it has been alleged repeatedly that Under Indonesian law, Legal Adoption is AUTOMATIC if the child is less than 5 years of age. Apparently under Indonesian law, a "Casual" adoption is equivalent to a LEGAL adoption.
Of course they would have told the school in Indonesia that Lolo was his father or adoptive father so he could attend. This doesn’t mean it was legal. My oldest attended private school under his not-legal stepfather’s last name.
Again, If what has been alleged about Indonesian law is true, there is no difference between a "Casual" Adoption and a full fledged legal, went to court, adoption. Anyone out there able to confirm this aspect of Indonesian law in the early 1960s?
Using this logic, since there are no records available of any of Obama’s transcripts we can assume Obama never attended any classes his entire life.
Obama has gone to great lengths to conceal almost all records of his life. Obama must have legally changed his name, this strongly suggests he was adopted. His step sister has said that Lolo adopted him.
Your theory of a “casual adoption” is possible but the most likely case is that Lolo adopted him.