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Showing posts with label Indonesia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indonesia. Show all posts

Monday, February 15, 2010

Obama Statue Removed from Park Amid Outcry


Two months and they're already pulling down The One? Statues of Stalin, Ceauşescu and the other Hussein lasted for decades.

Authorities removed a statue of Barack Obama from a park in the Indonesian capital due to a public backlash and moved it Monday to a nearby elementary school that the U.S. president attended as a child.

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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Indonesia Mulls Tearing Down Obama Statue


Perhaps they should send it to Kenya.
From AFP

Indonesian authorities said Monday they are considering a petition to tear down a statue of US President Barack Obama as a boy, only a month after the bronze was unveiled in Jakarta.

The statue of "Little Barry" -- as Obama was known when he lived in the capital in the late 1960s -- stands in central Jakarta's Menteng Park, a short walk from the US president's former elementary school.

Critics say the site should have been used to honour an Indonesian and 55,000 people have joined a page on social networking website Facebook calling for the statue to be removed.

"We've been discussing for the past two weeks what to do with the statue... whether to take it down, move it elsewhere or retain it. We're finding the best solution," Jakarta parks agency official Dwi Bintarto said.

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