President Obama’s recent speech in Indonesia achieved many of the things I had hoped for when he gave his Cairo speech last year, and things that could only be achieved in speaking from Jakarta. As the most populous Muslim nation in the world, Indonesia offers touch points for understanding a multi-faith, multi-cultural, economically developed democracy in a Muslim context. Obama, in touching on all of these points, also demonstrates a more mature use of religious language that hints at future foreign policy goals.
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