AFP: US President Barack Obama will finally make a much-delayed homecoming of sorts to Indonesia Tuesday, seeking to engage Muslims and cement strategic relations on the second leg of his Asia visit.
Obama will fly from India, the world's largest democracy, to Indonesia, its most populous Muslim-majority nation, mixing diplomatic symbolism with a search for new export markets to boost the lagging US recovery and jobs growth.
The president will return as an adoptive favorite son, after spending four years in Indonesia as a boy with his late mother, though he will have little time for tourism in the middle of a nine-day, four-nation tour of Asia.