Comment: Students protest Obama’s visit

Nov. 05, Online

Around 100 members of the Liberation Student Movement marched from Al Markaz Al Islami to a flyover in the South Sulawesi capital of Makassar on Friday to express their opposition to the planned visit of US President Barack Obama to Indonesia next week.  
 
Your comments:

A good relationship with the US would help this country more than you are willing to accept. Stop shouting words everybody has heard the last 50 years! Stop burning flags and pictures! This is degrading – not for President Obama, but for you as supposed intellectuals!

Roland K.K.
Jakarta

So, you do not want to welcome the US president? I do not mean to belittle brave national heroes, and yet we must not forget that it was the US who dropped the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki that resulted in the Japanese surrendering unconditionally.

That means the Japanese had to leave the places they occupied, including Indonesia. So, Indonesian people owe the US for their independence.The US has been one of the most, if not the most, generous country. Who gave the most to the tsunami victims? Be fair, the numbers don’t lie.

You took in big donations and now instead of thanking the US you want to kick the US in the teeth? Remember, the US was not only the most generous during the tsunami, but also one of the first countries to send equipment to help the victims.   

Chris C
Jakarta