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Obama speaks at plenary session in Malaysia with half-sister

Kuala Lumpur, Dec 13 (EFE/EPA).- Former United States President Barack Obama spoke Friday in Malaysia at a plenary session organized by his foundation, in which he and his half-sister spoke about their experiences growing up in the region. Organized by the Obama Foundation – which runs education and scholarship initiatives – the session in Kuala Lumpur, titled “How the Asia-Pacific Shaped Us,” featured the former president and Maya Soetoro-Ng, who reflected on their childhoods in Indonesia and Hawaii. “It gave me a sense of how people can struggle, because when I moved to Indonesia in 1967, Indonesia had just gone through political turmoil and the country was still very underdeveloped, there was a lot of poverty,” Obama said. “There was also a lot of wealth and so you start to see how societies can give so much to some and so little to others, and that, I think, informed my views.”(Camera: FAZRY ISMAIL).FOOTAGE OF FORMER UNITED STATES PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA IN KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA.