Students reject Obama’s visit

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

The students displayed banners and pamphlets denouncing the US president, who they said would use his Indonesian trip to polish his international image amid alleged war crimes involving the US in Afghanistan, Iraq and other Muslim countries across the world. Some students set fire to Obama’s picture during the march.

They also accused Obama of attempting to perpetuate American imperialism through bilateral cooperation with Indonesia.