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Waiting for Barack

By Erika Kinetz | Newsweek Web Exclusive Apr 14, 2008

Indonesia's defense minister looks at how an Obama presidency could reshape foreign perception of the United States.

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NEWSWEEK: How do you think an Obama presidency would affect U.S.-Indonesia relations?
Juwono Sudarsono: Symbolically it would be very, very important for us, as it would be for the whole Asian African continents. If Obama is elected as president, I think it would reignite the United States as the real light star of hope—that it symbolizes a multiethnic, multicultural, multireligious nation. That's the most important aspect, the symbolism of it. Translating it into American foreign policy will be much more difficult.

,,, If you could vote as part of the American global polity, who would you vote for?
Right now? I would vote for Obama. I think he has this message of decency, of fairness, of transcending racial hatred, which cuts across all countries, all nations.

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