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Women look at an image of President-elect Barack Obama, made from a mosaic of stamps, during the Asian International Stamp Exhibition in Jakarta, October 25, 2008.
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US president-elect Barack Obama, who spent part of his childhood in Jakarta, told Indonesia's leader he would like to visit the Southeast Asian nation again and recalled a taste for local food.
Obama's remarks were recounted by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono after a six-minute phone call between the two leaders.
"He greeted me with 'apa kabar, Bapak Presiden' (How are you Mr. President) in fluent Indonesian," Yudhoyono was quoted as saying by the Koran Tempo daily.
Yudhoyono has just returned from a trip to the United States and South America, where he attended the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC).
"When I invited him to come to Jakarta during the APEC meeting in Singapore next year, he said coming to Indonesia is very important," Yudhoyono said.
The Indonesian president said that Obama also said that besides forging greater cooperation between the two nations, a visit would give him a chance to try local food again including meatball soup, nasi goreng and rambutan, the paper reported.
Nasi goreng is a fried rice dish popular in Indonesia, while rambutans are a tropical fruit with a sweet translucent flesh.
Obama, who will be sworn in as the 44th U.S. president in January spent four years in Indonesia after his American mother married Indonesian Lolo Soetoro following the end of her marriage to Obama's Kenyan father.
Indonesians have followed Obama's political fortunes closely and the local media has been full of stories on his old school, the house he lived in, and the hopes of people in the world's fourth-most populous nation.
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(Agencies)
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曾在雅加達(dá)度過一段童年時(shí)光的美國當(dāng)選總統(tǒng)當(dāng)選巴拉克?奧巴馬日前告訴印尼總統(tǒng)，他很想故地重游，再次品嘗印尼的美食。
印尼總統(tǒng)蘇西洛（向媒體）透露了此前他與奧巴馬六分鐘電話交談的部分內(nèi)容。
《可蘭日報(bào)》援引蘇西洛的話說：“他在電話中用流利的印尼語問候我 ‘近來可好，總統(tǒng)先生？’（'apa kabar, Bapak Presiden）”。
蘇西洛總統(tǒng)剛參加完在南美舉行的APEC領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人峰會回國，他在峰會期間訪問了美國。
蘇西洛說：“我邀請他在明年的新加坡峰會期間訪問雅加達(dá)，他表示訪問印尼十分重要?！?/font>
奧巴馬說，除了進(jìn)一步鞏固兩國的關(guān)系外，訪問印尼還能讓他有機(jī)會再次品嘗當(dāng)?shù)氐拿朗?，比如肉丸湯、炒飯和紅毛丹果等。
炒飯是印尼的一種著名的美食，紅毛丹是一種味道甘甜、肉質(zhì)透明的亞熱帶水果。
父母離婚后，奧巴馬隨母親前往繼父洛羅?蘇托洛的故鄉(xiāng)印度尼西亞，并在此生活了四年。奧巴馬的母親是美國人，父親是肯尼亞人。
印尼人密切關(guān)注奧巴馬的政治前途，當(dāng)?shù)孛襟w曾大幅報(bào)道了他曾經(jīng)就讀的小學(xué)和他住過的房子，并表達(dá)了這個(gè)世界第四人口大國對他的期望。
奧巴馬將于明年1月就任美國第44任總統(tǒng)。
（英語點(diǎn)津姍姍編輯）
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