Obama Statue Moved from Indonesia Public Park

Obama Statue Moved From Public Park in Jakarta, Indonesia

A statue of President Barack Obama as a 10-year-old boy was transferred Monday from a public park here to an elementary school that Mr. Obama attended as a child. The removal of the statue came after criticism of its placement by Indonesian users of Facebook.

Officials in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, bowed to protesters who said that the park should be reserved to honor Indonesians and that Mr. Obama had yet to make any particular contributions to the country.

Financed by a $10,000 donation from local supporters of the president, the 43-inch bronze statue was unveiled in December in the park, located in Menteng, the neighborhood where Mr. Obama lived with his mother and Indonesian stepfather in the late 1960s.

The statue in a Jakarta’s Park before it’s moved to another place