{"id":15088,"date":"2013-10-07T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T05:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/indonesians-upbeat-about-obama-and-the-u-s-despite-the-presidents-cancelled-trips\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:28:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:28:01","slug":"indonesians-upbeat-about-obama-and-the-u-s-despite-the-presidents-cancelled-trips","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2013\/10\/07\/indonesians-upbeat-about-obama-and-the-u-s-despite-the-presidents-cancelled-trips\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesians upbeat about Obama and the U.S., despite the president\u2019s cancelled trips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amid the government shutdown and personnel furloughs, President Obama has cancelled a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/news\/fiscal-crisis\/2013\/10\/03\/obama-cancels-two-more-asia-trips\/\">planned trip to Asia<\/a> where he was to attend a Pacific Rim economic conference in Indonesia that begins today, and also hold a series of important diplomatic meetings in the region.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/10\/DN_Obama_Indonesia.png\"><img data-dominant-color=\"f2f2f2\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f2f2f2;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"321\" height=\"269\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2013\/10\/DN_Obama_Indonesia.png?resize=321,269 321w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" class=\"wp-image-27510 not-transparent\" alt=\"DN_Obama_Indonesia\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2013\/10\/DN_Obama_Indonesia.png\" ><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This marks the third time in as many years that Obama has scrubbed a trip to Indonesia.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/44\/2010\/06\/obama-postpones-indonesia-aust.html\">first two cancellations<\/a> happened in 2010 when the president decided to stay in Washington, first for a critical health care vote in Congress and later due to a massive oil spill on the Gulf Coast. Now, with the government shutdown entering its second week and a fight looming over the debt ceiling, the president once again has decided to stay in Washington because of the political battles at home\u2014as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/04\/us\/politics\/furloughs-alter-routines-for-presidents-staff.html?_r=1&amp;\">limited staff<\/a> both at home and abroad due to the shutdown.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the previous cancellations, America\u2019s image has remained positive in Indonesia. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/global\/2013\/07\/18\/chapter-1-attitudes-toward-the-united-states\/\">spring 2013 survey<\/a>, 61% of Indonesians expressed a favorable view of the U.S., essentially unchanged from 63% in a 2009 poll conducted shortly after President Obama took office.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many Indonesians are aware that President Obama spent some of his childhood in the country. When asked <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/global\/2009\/07\/23\/chapter-2-views-of-president-barack-obama\/\">in 2009<\/a>, 79% of Indonesians said they knew the president lived in Indonesia as a child.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, Obama is popular in Indonesia\u201453% have confidence in him to do the right thing in world affairs.\u00a0However, Obama\u2019s popularity has declined since 2009, when 71% had confidence in the newly elected American president. Still, Indonesians give Obama one of the highest ratings among the majority-Muslim nations surveyed by <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/global\/2013\/07\/18\/chapter-2-global-opinion-of-barack-obama\/\">Pew Research Center<\/a> earlier this year (second to Senegal at 78%).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama has cancelled a trip to Indonesia for the third time because of troubles at 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