Obama and family go river rafting during Indonesia vacation
BALI — Former U.S. President Barack Obama and his family were seen on a river rafting trip Monday as they vacationed in Indonesia, where he lived for several years as a child.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama, center, his wife Michelle, center rear, and daughters Malia, right, and Sasha, second right, raft on Ayung River in Badung, Bali island, Indonesia. Photo: AP
BALI — Former U.S. President Barack Obama and his family were seen on a river rafting trip Monday as they vacationed in Indonesia, where he lived for several years as a child.
Mr Obama, his wife, Michelle, and their daughters, Sasha and Malia, rafted on the Ayung River on the resort island of Bali, where the family arrived Friday (June 23).
Indonesian President Joko ``Jokowi’’ Widodo had invited Mr Obama to take a holiday in the country after leaving office, and has invited the family to visit the presidential Bogor Palace in West Java during their nine-day trip. The former president is also scheduled to speak at an Indonesian Diaspora Congress in Jakarta on July 1.
Mr Obama moved to Indonesia in 1967 at age 6 after his divorced mother remarried an Indonesian man. She stayed on after the marriage broke up, working as an anthropologist and development aid worker, but Obama returned to Hawaii when he was 10 to live with his grandparents. AP
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