Barack Obama to travel to Indonesia with family

UK Telegraph

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US President Barack Obama and his family will retrace his childhood steps,travelling to Indonesia next month in a nostalgic return to the country where he lived with his late mother and Indonesian stepfather in the 1960s.

The trip,in the second half of March,has been greatly anticipated in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country since Mr Obama’s inauguration,which was welcomed in Indonesia as the start of a new era in US diplomacy.

Dino Patti Djalal,a spokesman for Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono,said the visit was a chance for Mr Obama to set relations on a more equal footing.

"We want relations between Indonesia and the United States not only to cover one issue. There used to be an imbalance,only democracy and human rights,"he was quoted as saying by Antara state news agency.

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