What Nationality Is Barack Obama? Was He Born In Kenya?

Barck Obama's American mother, Ann Dunham, divorced her first husband, Barack Obama Sr., in 1963. Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian, and moved to Indonesia sometime between 1966 and 1967. It was not clear whether Soetoro adopted Obama, either in Hawaii or in Indonesia, that would have made Brack Obama of Indonesian nationality. But there is strong circumstantial evidence that he did as far as Indonesian law was concerned.

In Indonesia, which was under tight rule in 1967, Barck Obama clearly took on the last name of his stepfather in school registration documents. Following his enrollment at the private Assisi school, he attended public schooling in Indonesia until he returned to Hawaii at age 10. Barck arrived in Indonesia at about the age of five according to most accounts, although it was possible he arrived at the age of six, according to a few sources. If Lolo Soetoro adopted Obama at age five or younger, then Obama would automatically have become an Indonesian citizen according to the country's laws in the 1960's, which stipulated any child aged five or younger adopted by an Indonesian father is immediately granted Indonesian citizenship upon completion of the adoption process.

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