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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

From: "Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>
> Now, on to the passport issue.  Indonesia has a rather different type of
> passport for a "foreign" woman married to an Indonesian man if she doesn't
> apply for citizenship.  And, if she applies for citizenship she has to 
> give
> up her country of origin citizenship.  Now, her children would get the 
> same
> type of passport and wouldn't be able to get an Indonesian passport once 
> mom
> and dad divorced!  UNLESS he had been legally adopted AND became a citizen
> of Indonesia.

Lots of 'ifs' in there, and no evidence that any of it actually happened. 
The simplest explaination is that he had a US passport. The  piece that 
Marie quoted from the NYT travel section 
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/14/travel/lahore-a-survivor-with-a-bittersweet-history.html?&pagewanted=1 
certainly suggests that there were Americans travelling as tourists  in 
those countries in 1981.

According to the US State Department, a parent cannot renounce US 
citizenship of minor children. IF Obama was legally adopted, and IF he 
became a citizen of Indonesia, he'd have dual citizenship. Unless he 
officially renounced his US citizenship (or committed one of the acts that 
loses your citizenship), he's still a citizen.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA