Warga Amerika, anggota partai demokrat yang berada di Indonesia telah melaksanakan pemungutan suara dan 75% dari mereka mendukung Obama sebagai calon presiden dari Partai demokrat.
Obama di masa kecilnya pernah tinggal di Jakarta (1967-1971) ketika dia berusia 6-10 tahun. ---( ihsan hm )----------------------- < http://tinyur1.com > -------------------------------------------- Obama the choice of democrats in Indonesia -------------------------------------------- >From Saeed Ahmed CNN (CNN) -- Illinois Sen. Barack Obama won the first battle of the Super Tuesday showdown when Democratic Party voters in Indonesia -- where Obama spent four years of his childhood -- picked him over Sen. Hillary Clinton. Seventy five percent of the nearly 100 votes cast by expatriate Americans a minute after midnight Indonesia time (12 p.m. Monday EST) went to Obama. The rest were cast in favor of Clinton, said Arian Ardie, country committee chair for Democrats Abroad. Ardie said he was not permitted to disclose the exact number of votes cast, and added that the results were preliminary and still need formal verification. Ardie said that Obama's time in Indonesia was part of his appeal among expatriate voters in the southeast Asian country. "I think it factored in to the extent they saw someone with strong international experience," he said. "But I don't think it was the primary factor." The voting at a hotel in Indonesia's capital city of Jakarta was the first in-person casting of ballots in a coast-to-coast contest for Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls Tuesday. Voters will go to the polls in 24 states and American Samoa. ............ Obama's sister Maya Soetoro-Ng "had a more personal description of her brother," Ardie said. She talked about why he would make a great president and "tied it back to some of his multi-cultural experiences while growing up in Indonesia." Obama lived in Indonesia as a child with his mother and step-father. In his two books -- "Dreams From My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope" -- Obama noted that he spent two years in a Muslim school and another two years in a Catholic school while living in Indonesia from age 6 to 10, starting in 1967. At a campaign stop in November, Obama told an Iowa audience that "probably the strongest experience I have in foreign relations is the fact that I spent four years living overseas when I was a child in Southeast Asia." Obama said his time there, and the fact that his father was from Kenya, gave him the knowledge "of how ordinary people in these other countries live." Later, Obama said the point he was trying to make in Iowa is that his time overseas "gives me some judgment and perspective around what other people think about America and how they might react or respond when we make some of the decisions that we make."
