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Lolo Soetoro
Geographer + Scientist + Geologist
Male
Born
Jan 2, 1935
Hometown
West Java
Died
Mar 2, 1987
Death Place
Jakarta
Nationality
Indonesia
Alma Mater
University of Haw...
Other Names
Lolo Soetoro
Lolo Soetoro, also known as Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo or Mangundikardjo, was the Indonesian stepfather of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States of America.
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Lolo Soetoro
d.1987
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CHILDHOOD
1935
Birth
Born on January 2, 1935.
TWENTIES
Soetoro earned his bachelor's degree in geography from Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta. In 1962, Soetoro, then a civilian employee of the Indonesian Army Topographic Service, obtained an East-West Center grant for graduate study in geography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
1964
29 Years Old
In January 1964 she filed for divorce from her estranged husband, Barack Obama Sr., who had left Hawaii in June 1962 to pursue graduate study at Harvard University.
THIRTIES
1965
30 Years Old
Soetoro and Dunham met at the East-West Center while both were students at the University of Hawaii. Soetoro and Dunham married in Hawaii in 1965.
1966
31 Years Old
Soetoro, a geographer, returned to Indonesia in 1966, to help map Western New Guinea for the Indonesian government, while Dunham and her son moved into her parents' house in Honolulu to complete her studies at the University of Hawaii; she earned a B.A. in anthropology in 1967.
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1967
32 Years Old
In 1967, Dunham and her six-year-old son moved to Jakarta to rejoin Soetoro.
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In 1970, with his financial situation improved by a new job in government relations at Union Oil Company, Soetoro moved his family two miles north to a rented house at 22 Taman Amir Hamzah Street in the Matraman Dalam neighborhood in the Pegangsaan administrative village of the Menteng subdistrict in Central Jakarta, with a car replacing their motorcycle.
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1971
36 Years Old
In mid-1971, Obama moved back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents and attend Punahou School starting in 5th grade.
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FORTIES
1976
41 Years Old
In 1976, Dunham and her daughter moved to Yogyakarta, living for half a year with Soetoro's 76-year-old mother. During their years in Indonesia, Dunham became increasingly interested in the country's culture, while Soetoro became more interested in Western culture, and their relationship was in conflict over differing values. Their divorce became final on November 6, 1980.
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1980
45 Years Old
Soetoro married Erna Kustina in 1980 and had two children, a son, Yusuf Aji Soetoro (born 1981) and daughter, Rahayu Nurmaida Soetoro (born 1987).
FIFTIES
1987
52 Years Old
Soetoro died, age 52, on March 2, 1987 of liver failure, and was buried in Tanah Kusir Cemetery, South Jakarta.
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