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Lolo Soetoro (EYD: Lolo Sutoro; Javanese pronunciation: [ˈlɒlɒ suːˈtɒrɒː]; 2 January 1935 [1] – 2 March 1987), also known as Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo [2] [3] or Mangundikardjo, [4] was an Indonesian geographer who was the ex-stepfather of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.
Lolo Soetoro, Javanese given name: Martodihardjo, [82] [83] was the second husband of Ann Dunham (married on March 15, 1965) [84] and stepfather to Barack Obama. He is Maya Soetoro-Ng's father. After his divorce from Dunham, Soetoro married Erna Kustina. They had two children, Yusuf Aji Soetoro (b. 1981) and Rahayu Nurmaida Soetoro (b. 1984). [83]
Maya Kasandra Soetoro-Ng (née Soetoro; / ˈ m aɪ. ə s uː ˈ t ɔːr oʊ ˈ ɪ ŋ /; [1] born August 15, 1970) is an Indonesian-born American academic, who is a faculty specialist at the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, based in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is also ...
Obama had a close relationship with his maternal grandparents. In 1965, his mother remarried to Lolo Soetoro from Indonesia. Two years later, Dunham took Obama with her to Indonesia to reunite him with his stepfather. In 1971, Obama returned to Honolulu to attend Punahou School, from which he graduated in 1979.
Stanley Armour Dunham, Ann Dunham, Maya Soetoro and Barack Obama, mid-1970s (l to r) On August 21, 1959, Hawaii became the 50th state to be admitted into the Union. Dunham's parents sought business opportunities in the new state, and after graduating from high school in 1960, Dunham and her family moved to Honolulu.
At 10 years old, Barack Obama moved in with the Dunhams in Honolulu to attend school in the U.S. while his mother and stepfather Lolo Soetoro were living in Jakarta, Indonesia. His mother later came back to Hawaii to pursue graduate studies, but when she returned to Indonesia in 1977 for her master's fieldwork, Obama stayed in the United States ...
Lolo is a unisex given name. People named Lolo include: Lolo Arziki (born 1992), Cape Verdean filmmaker and activist; Lolo Fakaosilea (born 1995), Australian rugby union player; Lolo Lui (born 1982), Samoan rugby player; Lolo Letalu Matalasi Moliga, American Samoan politician, former educator, and businessman; Lolo Soetoro (1935-1987 ...
Lolo Soetoro, step-father of Barack Obama; Maya Soetoro-Ng, half-sister of Barack Obama; Yenny Wahid, daughter of former president Abdurrahman Wahid; Yusof Ishak, Singaporean politician and the first President of Singapore.