His mother worked on the US embassy in Indonesia, his steph father worked for the military dictatorship in Indonesia during their genocide on the Indonesian communist party (2 million people were killed, the party had 1 million members).
Here’s a fragment from Obama’s autobiography about a conversation with his Indonesian steph-father:
My source is: The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins. A great book. (I’d also reccomend the film The Act of Killing, but save it for after you’ve read this book.)
Dunham conducted research on women’s work on the island of Java and blacksmithing in Indonesia. To address the problem of poverty in rural villages, she designed microcredit programs while working as a consultant for the United States Agency for International Development. In Jakarta, she worked for the Ford Foundation, and consulted for the Asian Development Bank in Pakistan. Towards the latter part of her life, she worked with Bank Rakyat Indonesia, where she helped apply her research to the largest microfinance program in the world…Peter Geithner, father of Tim Geithner (who later became U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in her son’s administration), was head of the foundation’s Asia grant-making at that time
His mother worked on the US embassy in Indonesia, his steph father worked for the military dictatorship in Indonesia during their genocide on the Indonesian communist party (2 million people were killed, the party had 1 million members).
Here’s a fragment from Obama’s autobiography about a conversation with his Indonesian steph-father:
My source is: The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins. A great book. (I’d also reccomend the film The Act of Killing, but save it for after you’ve read this book.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Dunham