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Former President Obama Calls for Tolerance in Indonesia

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Jul 03, 2017
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In a speech delivered Saturday in Jakarta, the former US President Barack Obama reminded Indonesians – and indeed the entire world – of a time, not long ago, when Americans had a president.

The speech Obama delivered to a conference of the Indonesian diaspora in Jakarta laid out, just between the lines, a stunning rebuke to Donald Trump's coarse presiden…

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