Dreams Bari was removed from the center of Jakarta | World | News |
February 7, 2010 – 11:00 pm
statue called “Barry Dream”, depicting U.S. President Barack Obama as a child was removed from Central Park in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, at the campaign of protest that raged on this subject in the media and the Internet.
writes NEWSru.com with reference to the British edition of The Times, opponents expressed the belief that this place should be reserved for local heroes who have done more to Indonesia than the current U.S. president and ironically stated that the President generally still no good time to make – if you do not take good deed receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
Monument Barack Obama has been installed in Indonesia’s capital on December 10 2009 By order of the governor of the city Silviano SANS, sculptor captured the head of the White House at a young age. The sculpture depicts a teenager in shorts and a T-shirt, which considers him to operate a butterfly. On the neck of a boy decorate the Nobel medal, and the pedestal is decorated with a statement of another presidential wife, Eleanor Roosevelt: “The future belongs to those who believe in the power dream”.
The monument was removed before the U.S. president’s visit to Indonesia. Obama to visit this country, as well as Australia and the island of Guam in the Pacific during the second half of March. Analysts believe that the U.S. president during a visit intended to establish ties with the Indonesian supporters of Islam – the largest Muslim community in the world. It is the activists of Islamic political parties in Indonesia have initiated a campaign for the removal of “Dreams Bari from the center of Jakarta.
