President Barack Obama attended school in Indonesia during the 1960s, and the experience had a profound impact on his life.
Obama was born in 1961 in Hawaii, and his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was a university lecturer. In the early 1960s, Dunham took a job in Indonesia as an anthropologist, and Obama accompanied her. The family lived in the Jakarta area, and Obama attended local schools.
During his time in Indonesia, Obama learned to speak Indonesian and befriended a number …