Obama and family go rafting in Bali

Former US president Barack Obama and his family have been enjoying a river rafting trip while on holidays in Indonesia, where he lived for several years as a child.

Mr Obama, his wife, Michelle, and their daughters, Sasha and Malia, rafted on the Ayung River in Bali, where the family arrived on Friday.

Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo had invited Mr Obama to take a holiday in the country after leaving office, and has invited the family to visit the presidential Bogor Palace in West Java during their nine-day trip.

The former president is also scheduled to speak at an Indonesian Diaspora Congress in Jakarta on July 1.

Mr Obama moved to Indonesia in 1967 when he was six after his divorced mother remarried an Indonesian man.

She stayed on after the marriage broke up, working as an anthropologist and development aid worker, but Mr Obama returned to Hawaii when he was 10 to live with his grandparents.