Jakarta, Barack Obama's Childhood City

JAKARTA, INDONESIA - APRIL 2010: Mega Kuningan area, Ritz Carlton Jakarta hotel. Jakarta is the fastest growing capital city in South East Asia. Indonesia is a stable democracy, and is the country with the largest Muslim country in the world. The capital's big metropolis has over 18 millions inhabitants, with everything available to them. The urban plan is like the country itself: a vast archipelago where poor and rich atolls grow in height and surface. Thirty thousand wealthy people are said to control the economy, but the architectural growth shows a larger force in action. US President Barak Obama is due to return in June 2010 to visit the city where he grow up between the ages of 6-10, in the Menteng area, to find a very different reality: the village where he lived is now a residential area, and the centre of Menteng where he went to school is a forest of high-rise buildings. (Photo by Andrea Pistolesi/Getty Images)