Interview: Maya Soetoro-Ng (the sister President Obama grew up with)

[Tx4obama]

June 29, 2012

For Obama's Sister, Optimism Abounds in Jakarta Homecoming

She was born in Jakarta and attended Jakarta International School. And she happens to be the closest living relative to the 44th President of the United States.

Maya Soetoro-Ng is the 41-year-old maternal half-sister of Barack Obama. The siblings were bound together by their mother, social scientist Ann Dunham-Soetoro, who raised them both in Indonesia and Hawaii.

Maya last visited Jakarta in 2003, well before her famous brother began his march to the White House. The educator came home earlier this month on a mission for the East-West Center in Honolulu, where she lives with her husband Konrad and two children. In this exclusive to the Jakarta Globe and Metro TV, she talks about Indonesia’s schools, her brother’s re-election chances and returning to the land of her birth.

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Click on the following link to read the interview transcript: http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/lifeandtimes/in-the-first-sisters-jakarta-homecoming-theres-plenty-to-be-optimistic-about/527363

Maya Soetoro-Ng Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Soetoro-Ng

[demosincebirth]

1. I wonder what the dumb-ass republicans will turn this into?

[struggle4progress]

2. "She's actually visiting Jakarta to destroy important evidence Barack was born in Kenya"

[demosincebirth]

3. They're probably thinking something up that alley.