President Obama will soon be honored with a statue in Jakarta, Indonesia, depicting him as a child in the period when he lived there for four years.
The statue, erected by a private group called “Friends of Obama” and financed by local businessmen and businesswoman, will be two meters tall, and made of bronze. It will be located at a playground near the elementary school that the young Obama attended.
The statue will be unveiled on December 10, at a ceremony attended by Jakarta’s governor, the U.S. ambassador to Indonesia, and hundreds of children who have attended the school.
This isn’t the only instance of a statue of Obama in the country — though others are not as friendly. In the city of Yogyakarta, artist William Syanhur will take a fiber-glass statue of Obama around the city on a bicycle taxi, in order for people to boo Obama in effigy for his decision to send more troops to Afghanistan despite having received a Nobel Peace Prize.
