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November 2009 
Indonesian Obama Look-Alike
Meenakshi
Sun Jan 18, 5:39 AM ET
A combination photograph shows U.S. President-elect Barack Obama (L) at a
ceremony for his whistle stop train trip at the train station in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania January 17, 2009 and Indonesian photographer
Ilham Anas (R) chatting with his colleagues in his office in Jakarta
January 17, 2009. Anas won't be at U.S. President Barack Obama's
inauguration on Tuesday. Instead he'll be starring as an Obama
look-alike on Indonesian TV. Anas, 34, who from some angles bears a
resemblance to the new U.S. president, shot to fame in Jakarta after
Obama, 47, won the election in November, and is now earning income as
an Obama double.
Indonesian photographer Ilham Anas (R) posing as the U.S. President-elect ...
Reuters
Sun Jan 18, 12:05 AM ET
Indonesian photographer Ilham Anas (R) posing as the U.S. President-elect Barack Obama stands next to his colleague in his office in Jakarta November 7, 2008. Anas won't be at U.S. President Barack Obama's inauguration on January 20, 2009. Instead he'll be starring as an Obama look-alike on Indonesian TV. Anas, 34, who from some angles bears a resemblance to the new U.S. president, shot to fame in Jakarta after Obama, 47, won the election in November, and is now earning income as an Obama double. REUTERS/Budi Ismail/Hai Magazine (INDONESIA).
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Ilham Anas is Inonesia’s Obama Look Alike
Meet Ilham Anas, an Indonesian man with a particularly interesting trait: he’s has a striking resemblance to Barack Obama.
“When Obama won, my colleagues played a practical joke on me — theymade me wear a suit, a tie, and took pictures of me posing as Obama,”
Anas told Reuters.
“The pictures spread very quickly on the Internet. It was phenomenal.
Then TV stations and an advertising agency got in touch with me.”
His looks have resulted in an appearance in a pharmaceuticals ad in the Philippines (video below).
Indonesia feels a strong attachment to Obama, with the President
Elect having spent several years as a child living in the country.
Access: Public
His Cuban-American look-alike Gerardo Puisseaux is even more uncanny:
Pictures:
http://nimg.sulekha.com/Others/original700/2008-8-25-20-38-18-a26a2cb3c97a4e6091a837c0ff977ced-a26a2cb3c97a4e6091a837c0ff977ced-2.jpg
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/images/2008/08/26/katekraft.jpg
Videos here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/newsandviews/2008/08/barack_obamas_cuban_lookalike.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxTVg3AgtBQ
Very difficult to believe but it is actual.
That is hilarious! I wonder if humanity’s population continues to grow at a close to exponential pace, someday when earth has 50 billion people on it, everyone will have a double somewhere on the planet. ;-)
Wow, that’s trippy!
how very interesting; and perhaps larger than life people have more than one “twin”!!!