Obama pledges closer ties on return to Indonesia

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Source: BBC

The US and Indonesia are to expand co-operation on economic issues, security and climate change, the presidents of both countries have said. US President Barack Obama said the US and Indonesia would expand trade relationships and increase prosperity.

Mr Obama, who lived in Indonesia in his youth, will also speak at South East Asia's largest mosque while in Jakarta. The speech, to be delivered on Wednesday, will be his most high-profile attempt to engage the Islamic world since a landmark speech in Cairo in June 2009.

Mr Obama said Indonesia had "figured out how to create a genuine democracy" with a hugely diverse population. Washington and Jakarta would also work together on climate change, he said.

The trip will provide little time for nostalgia in a country where the president spent four years as a boy with his late mother. Mr Obama attended schools in Jakarta between the ages of six and 10. However, he did manage to greet officials who met him at the airport with a few words in Indonesian.



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[Hubert Flottz]

1. "Expand Trade"

Hell every chemical plant in this area has been setting up shop in Indonesia for several years.

America will soon be as poor as Indonesia once was.

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2. Muslin appeaser!1!

It's the end of the world as we know it.