Indonesians celebrate inauguration of Barack Obama

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Updated January 21, 2009 22:11:28

In Indonesia, the new American President Barrack Obama has become a favourite son because of the years he spent in the country as a child. And former schoolmates have been celebrating the president's inauguration with a hope that Indonesia will now have a friend in the Whitehouse.

Presenter: Gavin Fang, Indonesia Correspondent, ABC Australia Network
Speaker: Rully Dusaat, school friend of Barack Obama; Cameron Hume, US ambassador to Indonesia; Tina Hayari, Barack Obama's former Jakarta school teacher

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