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Barack Beyond Our Borders: The Indonesian Years 1967-1971




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Barack Obama has been widely criticized for his lack of foreign policy experience. Obama has argued that he understands the world at the grassroots level much better than his Republican opponent John McCain from having grown up in Indonesia for four and a half years as a child. Obama says the experience helps him understand some of the current foreign policy issues of today. Using Obama’s autobiographies as their guides, backpack journalists Jonathan Jones and Anna Sussman travel to Indonesia to see what they can learn about Obama in Indonesia. They learn that Obama and his mother arrived in Indonesia two years after a massive purge of communists and their sympathizers, which resulted in between 500,000 and one million deaths, and forced 750,000 others imprisoned or forced into exile. It is one reason that Obama says Indonesia “serves as a useful metaphor for the world beyond our borders – a world in which globalization and sectarianism, poverty and plenty, modernity and antiquity constantly collide.”
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