Obama heavy longing with Nasi Goreng

United States President Barack Obama reaffirms plan to come to Jakarta and imply that is very nostalgic eat favorite foods in Indonesia.

"I'm sure to Indonesia want and want ... I find my favorite food, fried rice, meat ball, fried noodles," said President Obama as quoted Indonesian Ambassador to the U.S. Sudjadnan Parnohadiningrat, in Washington DC, Thursday (6 / 8).

Obama has some time to reveal the intention to pay a visit to Indonesia, including as his said directly to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono some time ago.

During the small, namely in 1967-1971, Obama lived in Jakarta, precisely in the area of dense population in Menteng Dalam.

In conversations over the phone with the correspondent was in New York, Sudjadnan, said relief plan a visit to Indonesia Obama stated in a reception recently held for the foreign ambassadors in Washington.

"However, there is no certainty of the date of the visit. We are still waiting for their own news from their side," said Sudjadnan.

Opportunity in a brief chat at the reception, Obama also had a practice the ability to speak Indonesian when she greet Dubes Sudjadnan. "Hello, how are you? Night I have this double speak English. Your people second," Obama said as quoted Sudjadnan.

Not only to Sudjadnan, reception on the evening Obama is also talking to the Indonesian Ambassador to the U.S. Algeria, Abdallah Baali.

Baali served as Ambassador of Algeria in Indonesia in 1992 until 1996.


U.S. commitment

On the opportunity to meet with Dubes RI, President Obama directly stated commitment to return the U.S. to help Indonesia in difficult times, including in the situation to pascaserangan terrorist Hotel JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Jakarta on July 17 that killed nine people, including seven foreign nationals.

Similar commitment has been delivered through Obama issued a statement that White House not long after the bombardment happened and a phone conversation with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Be confirmed as the White House Spokesperson Robert Gibbs recently, the suicide bombs in two hotels in Jakarta that the plan does not affect President Obama to visit Indonesia.

According to Gibbs, Obama visit to Indonesia will be conducted after the President of the U.S. Conference of High-Level Economic Cooperation Asia Pacific (APEC) which will be held in Singapore in November 2009.