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Obama's Catholic School Ready for Possible Visit
March 15, 2010

Students play at Santo Fransiskus Asisi elementary school in Menteng Dalam, Jakarta. (JG Photo) Students play at Santo Fransiskus Asisi elementary school in Menteng Dalam, Jakarta. (JG Photo)
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Valkyrie
3:15pm Mar 16, 2010

Hey Marmz! Not to worry, you can always return to food inspecting.

WebEd, that's telling him! Hahaha too!

Marmz
12:56pm Mar 16, 2010

The ban-hammer? Little ol' me? Marmz goes (temporarily) demure and whistles faux-innocently.

PS Love you x

WebEd
12:53pm Mar 16, 2010

Hahaha! As soon as you write 40 times, "I shall not harass my friendly newspaper web editor, especially when she can permanently ban me with the mere press of a button."


Marmz
12:40pm Mar 16, 2010

Write down on a piece of lined paper, twenty times 'I will not perpetuate fascist right-wing propaganda in a national newspaper's web forum' and have it on my desk by 9am.

WebEd
12:14pm Mar 16, 2010

True. I've removed the post; sorry we let it slip through.

The Catholic school Barack Obama attended as a child in Jakarta is getting ready to receive a possible visit when the US president comes to Indonesia later this month.

“We do not know for sure if President Obama will visit this school, but we are prepared for the visit,” Maria Yohana of Santo Fransiskus Asisi Elementary School told Union of Catholic Asian News. “We will serve fried rice and rambutan, his favorite food."

She said students had also prepared a number of performances, including a traditional Jakarta Betawi dance, the Balinese pendet, and Sundanese angklung music.

Yohana said the school would also like to show Obama its new leadership laboratory, "whose vision is to produce future leaders based on love".

Obama attended Santo Fransiskus Asisi from 1968 to 1970, before transferring to Menteng 01 elementary school. While the latter has a statue of the child then known as "Barry", Santo Fransiskus has set aside the desk and chair he used.

“I want to shake hands and get his signature," said current student Stefanus Febrian, 10. "I also want to ask him about his favorite subject."

JG