(Reuters) — From white water rafting in Bali to visiting ancient temples in central Java’s Borobudur, former United States President Barack Obama and his family were back this week in Indonesia, where he spent four years as a child, for a private holiday.
Obama remains popular in the world’s most populous Muslim nation and his trip has been splashed across the media during an extended public holiday to mark the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.
The former US president was six when he moved to Jakarta after his American mother, Ann Dunham, married an Indonesian following the end of her marriage to Obama’s Kenyan father.
Obama is due to meet President Joko Widodo on Friday (June 30) at the palace in Bogor, south of Jakarta, and visit the capital on Saturday (July 1).
