Barack Obama and family go rafting in Indonesia

Former US President Barack Obama and his family have been enjoying a river rafting trip while on holidays in Indonesia.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama, left, his wife Michelle, center rear, and daughter Sasha, right, raft on Ayung River in Badung, Bali island, Indonesia Source: AP

Former US President Barack Obama and his family have been enjoying a river rafting trip while on holidays in Indonesia, where he lived for several years as a child.

Obama, his wife, Michelle, and their daughters, Sasha and Malia, rafted on the Ayung River in Bali, where the family arrived Friday.

Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo had invited Obama to take a holiday in the country after leaving office, and has invited the family to visit the presidential Bogor Palace in West Java during their nine-day trip.

Former US president Barack Obama (2-L) and former first lady Michelle Obama (L) walk at Jatiluwih rice terrace. Source: EPA

The former president is also scheduled to speak at an Indonesian Diaspora Congress in Jakarta on July 1.

Obama moved to Indonesia in 1967 when he was six after his mother remarried an Indonesian man.

She stayed on after the marriage broke up, working as an anthropologist and development aid worker, but Obama returned to Hawaii when he was 10 to live with his grandparents.

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Published 27 June 2017 6:36am

Updated 27 June 2017 8:52am

Source: AAP

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