Sporting shorts and a T-shirt, a statue of Barack Obama as a 10-year-old has been unveiled in a park in Indonesia, where he lived as a child.

The near life-sized statue, which was unveiled this afternoon (December 9), shows a young Barack smiling at a butterfly that has landed on his upheld left thumb.

It stands in Taman Menteng Park, near where Obama lived from 1967 until 1971 with his American mother, his Indonesian stepfather and his half sister. The park was previously an athletic field near Barack’s elementary school.

Says Ron Mullers, the chairman of the Friends of Obama Foundation: “The statue is being erected to inspire Indonesian children and help them remember that they can be whatever they set their hearts on.”