Former President Obama on Saturday issued a strong warning against the new trend toward "an aggressive kind of nationalism" and emphasized the importance of the Paris climate agreement, which the U.S. plans to break.



Obama called out at least one of his successor's policy changes without mentioning President Trump by name.

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"The world is at a crossroads," Obama said, speaking to the Fourth Congress of the Indonesian Diaspora in Jakarta while on a holiday with his family. He spoke against pursuing national interests at the peril of the rest of the world.

He said not only Indonesia and the U.S. but the world needs to confront threats such as "discrimination against people based on race or ethnicity or religion.”

Otherwise, he warned, “We start seeing a rise in sectarian politics, we start seeing a rise in an aggressive kind of nationalism, we start seeing both in developed and developing countries an increased resentment about minority groups and the bad treatment of people who don’t look like us or practice the same faith as us."

He went on to note "the temporary absence of American leadership" on fighting climate change.



“In Paris, we came together around the most ambitious agreement in history to fight climate change,” Obama said. Even though Trump announced the U.S. will withdraw from the accord, Obama said the agreement "will still give our children a fighting chance.”