TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: President Yudhoyono made a telephone conversation with President-elect Barack Obama on Monday night from Seattle as the president heads back to Indonesia after attending two economic conferences in Washington DC and Lima.
President Yudhoyono congratulate Mr Obama on his election as the next US president at 4:15 PM PST, as the plane carrying the delegates made a brief stop in Seattle to refuel.
President Yuhoyono said the president elect who spent three years of his childhood in Indonesia conversed in Indonesian expressing his memories of Indonesian food and fruits and conveyed his intention to visit the country.
Barack Obama who was born in Hawaii, lived in Jakarta from 1967 to 1970 as his mother an American antroplogist moved to Indonesia with her second husband, an Indonesian student at the University of Hawaii.
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