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Little Barry heads back to school next week
The Jakarta Post ^ | 02/13/2010 | Hasyim Widhiarto

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.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: bhosr; birthers; eligibility; jakarta; naturalborncitizen; obama; obamashrine; soetoro
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To: LucyT

Beck just says that the birther movement started with a democrat Berg and can be traced back to Hillary.....


121 posted on 02/16/2010 2:37:23 PM PST by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: Myrddin

Interesting & would make sense. I have never heard the reports of “Annie Toot.” Learn something everyday.

Even though the google translations are choppy, the Indonesian sites are still a goldmine considering compared to what we have s far.


122 posted on 02/16/2010 3:02:18 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: justiceseeker93

He was working on a masters at Harvard, not doctorate.


123 posted on 02/16/2010 3:03:10 PM PST by Jedidah (Character, courage, common sense are more important than issues.)
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To: LucyT
Photobucket The alleged father is very short.
124 posted on 02/16/2010 3:05:38 PM PST by bushpilot1
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To: null and void

Not on a million years. I want him OUT! I even want him out of my country.


125 posted on 02/16/2010 3:11:02 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: mojitojoe

IN a million years.


126 posted on 02/16/2010 3:11:33 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Jedidah

Once again, we’d have to see an original newsprint of that date to know.
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it’s out there... :)


127 posted on 02/16/2010 3:15:24 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: bushpilot1
Photobucket Photobucket
128 posted on 02/16/2010 3:15:43 PM PST by bushpilot1
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To: butterdezillion

Don’t be so sure about that. Just wait and see. You can rest assured it will never be posted her or anywhere else. Just wait until 2011. We aren’t getting him out, forget that. He will not run again and if he does, he will not be reelected. The god evidence is in the hands of people that know what to do with it, and no, not people like Orly. Experienced, well known people who know what to to with evidence and know to keep their mouths shut while they build their cases.


129 posted on 02/16/2010 3:18:16 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Jedidah

The Harvard scholarship was for a Doctorate? Why not complete his studies after grad school at Harvard. Why pursue doctorate in Kenya.


130 posted on 02/16/2010 3:27:37 PM PST by bushpilot1
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To: bushpilot1; hennie pennie; Beckwith; Fred Nerks; null and void; stockpirate; george76; ...
The alleged father is very short.

So ... who is the father?


131 posted on 02/16/2010 3:28:45 PM PST by LucyT
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To: LucyT

FMD


132 posted on 02/16/2010 3:29:20 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

Or MX.


133 posted on 02/16/2010 3:30:31 PM PST by LucyT
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To: OafOfOffice

I agree with Lamecherry, except they are probably incorrect regarding the hospitals.


134 posted on 02/16/2010 3:30:34 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: bushpilot1
Photobucket This kid does not resemble the present Obama..unless there was a drastic nose change.
135 posted on 02/16/2010 3:38:36 PM PST by bushpilot1
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To: LucyT

Frank Marshall Davis or Gramps.


136 posted on 02/16/2010 3:39:03 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: hoosiermama
I was away from Idaho from June 2009 to early Feb 2010. Over that time, I wasn't listening to Beck's program. I returned home last week so I can once again hear Beck's program replayed in the afternoon. I can't listen to it for long before I have to hit the power switch. It reminds me of a room full of dopers telling moronic stories to each other. Perhaps it's just the childish delivery, but I'm not interested in enduring lots of that in hopes of hearing something of substance.
137 posted on 02/16/2010 3:43:19 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: LucyT

There are doubts Senior graduated, Harvard has never referred to him as an alumni in any articles about Zero, which they certainly would have, had he GRADUATED.

Remember, kenya gained independence in 1963.Senior expected to be a big man in government, instead he ended up working for an oil company when he returned to Kenya and it was years before he received his first government position.


139 posted on 02/16/2010 3:45:43 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: LucyT
Photobucket Photobucket Stanley is a smoker.
140 posted on 02/16/2010 4:06:23 PM PST by bushpilot1
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