SMS: Barack Obama's challenges

Your comments on the challenges faced by the new president Barack Obama, who will be inaugurated on Jan. 20, and the pressing issues he should immediately address.

Martin Luther King was a hero for African-American people. Exasperated by the racial injustice inflicted on African-Americans in the United States, he called for a non-violent struggle against evil and died a martyr for his people.

Now, the African-Americans are “harvesting their crops” since the president-elect Barack Obama is to be the first African-American president. This is great and wonderful, and previously unthinkable, that Obama is broadly accepted by all ethnicities as the president.

Because of this event, all the issues about ghetto, racism, background and skin color which had become the story of America will be erased. Let us have one voice in the fight for freedom for all and break the racism chains. It is time for America to really become a democratic state.   

BALTASAR MILI
Yogyakarta

President Obama must immediately promote peace-keeping under the UN so that the war in Gaza Strip will immediately end.

ABIGAIL
Jakarta

The US is a country rich of waterfalls, big rivers, vast deserts, wide oceans and large forests which are significant sources of energy. Millions of rich, generous people and celebrities are good business people. To revive the economy, President Obama should optimize those natural resources and involve those people so that they won’t depend on and bother other countries.

Yes, he can do it.   

ALESSANDRA TRIA
Surabaya

We Indonesians may be right to say that President Barack Obama is our friend, particularly if his policy is friendly toward us. If his policy is unfriendly toward us, then the term of friend is not appropriate. But we can still call Barack Obama a brother, as we all live and share the same world. Nothing is wrong with that, is there?

ALICIA
Jakarta