Posted on 02/13/2010 10:35:13 AM PST by opentalk
The Central Jakarta administration will move the controversial "Little Barry" statue from its current location at Taman Menteng in Central Jakarta to state elementary school SDN 01 Menteng next week, an official says.
"We are currently discussing with officials from the school and its alumni association," city spokesman Cucu Ahmad Kurnia told reporters Friday. "We hope the move will happen next week."
US President Barack Obama attended the elementary school for almost two years when he spent part of his childhood in Jakarta.
Erected by the Jakarta-based Friends of Obama Foundation in December last year, the statue, which resembles Obama as a boy, recently sparked wide public criticism for insulting the nation's pride.
Just a few days after the Central Jakarta municipality unveiled the statue at Menteng Park, experts and a group of Facebook users demanded it be dismantled.
On Wednesday, the Central Jakarta District Court held a hearing to try a class action lawsuit by five plaintiffs representing 50,000 members of the "Take down the Barack Obama statue from Menteng Park" group on Facebook.
The five plaintiffs - Heru Nugroho, Protus Tanuhandaru, Daniel Rudi Haryanto, Andes Soesman and FX Agung Bimo Sutedjo - filed the suit against Jakarta governor, Central Jakarta mayor and the Jakarta Parks and Cemeteries Agency, saying the statue didn't deserve a place at the park and should be immediately removed.
Although appreciating the administration's plan to remove the statue, Heru said the group would go ahead with its lawsuit.
"We will only withdraw the lawsuit if the city administration publicly apologizes for its one-sided decision to permit the statue," he told The Jakarta Post.
Hawaiian-born Obama moved to Indonesia at the age of six to live with his mother, Ann Dunham, and Indonesian stepfather Lolo Soetoro.
Obama attended third grade at the school in 1968. He returned to Hawaii at the age of 10 to live with his maternal grandparents.
info exists but will never be posted here or anywhere else.
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why in the world would any decent attorney or researcher put on the internet what they have? Only an idiot would do that. They keep it under lock and key, continue to build, put it all together, then BAM!
I at least skimmed it. It seemed kind of "out there" to devote too much time to it. But I may have misinterpreted it.
Good to see you posting again.
The usurper can’t handle the truth.
I doubt they are related. We should all hope they aren’t because that would just be another angle they’d use to gather the vote.
Bam for what???? You said he isn’t going to be removed. He can’t win an election. I am suspicious of anything existing as you claim. You made pretty specific hints that someone had the newspaper from the day in question, but it turns out it was from a different newspaper day because it wasn’t reported in the paper until later.Now you are going to claim that someone has that day, too?...and some mysterious thing is going to happen in the future.
Oh, and why would someone wait until 2011 if they have the smoking gun that could help save the country RIGHT NOW.
Because they are smart?
I’m sure one of them could be persuaded to apply for the birth certificate also for some extra cash. Any one of them, like George of the Hut, qualifies for the request.
Surely, someone has the 3rd grade picture showing the whole class.
1967 to 72 - the years Maya says Hussein was in Indonesia
1967 - Kindergarten picture in HI. To make the age correct (age 5 = 196-67 school year), it would have to have been taken in the springtime however some claim he was only there 2-3 months before the move to Indonesia.
1968 - article about statue claims he attended 3rd grade in Jarkarta and there almost two years. Smart kid to go from kindergarten to 3rd grade the next year.
1969 - Picture of “Scott & Barry 3rd grade 1969” classmates at Noelani Elementary School, HI. Fall ‘69 would be accurate for an 8 year old 3rd grader.
1970 - ?
1971 - ? - Maya born in Jakarta but later obtains a HI COLB.
1972 - Some accounts say Ann took him back to HI in ‘71 but some say ‘72. Note the airport pictures with Sr. are at Christmas so perhaps everyone arrived sometime around Dec. ‘71 or Jan. ‘72 when he was 10.
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Dates as I have them and sources. Inconsistency on when BHO Jr returned to Hawaii but two sources say either October of 1971 or December 1971:
8/15/1970 Maya Sorento born
http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Ann_Dunham_Soetoro
10/20/1971 SAD and BHO Jr. leave Indonesia
10/21/1971 SAD and BHO Jr arrive in Hawaii from ndonesia
http://www.resistnet.com/forum/topics/83-updated-stanley-ann
12/15/1971 BHO jr. returns to Hawaii. Lives with grandparents - address - Apartment 1206 at 1617 S. Beretania
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2008/Nov/09/ln/hawaii811090361.html
By the way I believe that it was shown by Ms. Tickly and Leo Donofrio that Maya does not have Hawaiian COLB. Or at least no index record of such. The ‘Maya has a COLB’ seems to be internet lore.
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