Speak Indonesian, Obama Wants to Menteng

Posted by Fransadrianto | 1/29/2009 07:04:00 AM | , , | 0 comments »

On the second day after his inauguration, President of the United States (U.S.), Barack Obama visited the U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs. There are interesting events in the first visit to the institute at the cabinet because Obama spoke in Indonesian with an employee in the department.

"When talking with the employee, President Obama, who along with Vice President Joseph Biden, and National Security Advisor General James L Jones, his desires to visit the neighbors ever in Jakarta," the press release the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta received, Friday (23 / 1) night.

Visit to the U.S. department of foreign affairs stressed the government's attention on diplomacy and also mark the first day of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State to-67 in that department. In the visit, he announced a special U.S. envoy to the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and provide guidance on the diplomatic front.

President Obama with Hillary Clinton announced Menlu former Senator George Mitchell as a special envoy for the peace process in the Middle East and Ambassador Richard Holbrooke as the most special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. This is a step under the new government's commitment to update it through the leadership of U.S. diplomacy.

"We are confronted by global challenges that extraordinary, related, and complicated," Obama said to the employees of department of foreign affairs. "Progress will not come quickly or easily, we also promise not justify every mistake in the world. But we can promise will be using all elements of American power to protect our citizens and advance the interests and our ideals, starting with the United States who have principles diplomacy, the focus , and sustainable. "

After greeting authorized, President Obama chat and shake hands with the U.S. diplomat. In the middle of the event, Charles Silver, a former Public Affairs Counselors for the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, said in Indonesian, "Selamat siang, Bapak.."

Without hesitate President Obama held, "Terimakasih. Apa Kabar?"

"Baik-baik," answered Silver, and then notify the President that he had served several times in Indonesia.

Then President Obama said, when he visited Indonesia, he would like to visit the neighbors in the long Menteng, Central Jakarta.

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