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The President's trip to Asia has been largely focused on America's economy back home, promoting the exports of things we make. But his speech in Jakarta, Indonesia was meaningful for a lot of reasons. It was a follow-up to his speech in Cairo last year attempting to soothe historic tensions between America and Muslim communities around the world; it was a look at a country that has led by example in forging through the often turbulent waters of democracy, despite prejudices that a predominantly Muslim country could not do so and arguments that economic growth required the totalitarian order; and as the President explained in his opening, it was a return for him to one of his childhood homes: "I first came to this country when my mother married an Indonesian named Lolo Soetoro. And as a young boy I was -- as a young boy I was coming to a different world. But the people of Indonesia quickly made me feel at home."
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Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/11/10/president-obama-jakarta-indonesia-s-example-world
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