Geo436 JAKARTA: US President Barack Obama makes a much-delayed homecoming of sorts to Indonesia on Tuesday, seeking to engage Muslims and cement strategic relations on the second leg of his Asia tour.
Obama is flying from India, the world’s largest democracy, to Indonesia, its most populous Muslim-majority nation, mixing diplomatic symbolism with a search for new export markets to boost the lagging US recovery and jobs growth.
The president will return as an adoptive favourite son, after spending four years in Indonesia as a boy with his late mother, though he will have little time for tourism in the middle of a nine-day, four-nation tour of Asia.
Obama, whom Indonesians remember as “Barry”, will hold talks and share an official dinner with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, with economic and security issues topping the agenda.
The next day, Obama will
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