Jakarta: Bye, bye, barry statue

February 15, 2010

This is hysterical. Even Indonesians have had enough of barry. The 10 y/o bronze barry – paid for by barry people – has been taken down from Menteng Park and will be relocated to outside the school he attended. Should be re-erected by the time he visits March 20-22. The relocation is being paid for by Jakarta Gov Fauzi Bowo.

$10,600 barry getting a bath.

Image: Statue of President Barack Obama

Dita Alangkara / AP
Video of statue being erected Dec 9th.

After it was erected, Indonesians, led by Heru Nugroho, protested on Facebook and sued to have the statue removed. They felt an Indonesian hero should have been honored and also mentioned that big barry could end up with policies counter to Indonesians’ interest. They got their wish.

The school evidently has no problem having it outside.

(Didn’t he supposedly go to two schools?)

Source: MSNBC

Leave a Reply

Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s


Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.