{"id":11688,"date":"2019-12-01T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T21:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/01\/refugees-on-their-own-land-the-west-papuans-in-limbo-in-papua-new-guinea"},"modified":"2019-12-01T06:00:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T21:00:45","slug":"refugees-on-their-own-land-the-west-papuans-in-limbo-in-papua-new-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11688","title":{"rendered":"Refugees on their own land: the West Papuans in limbo in Papua New Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 7,000 West Papuans live in refugee villages, separated from their homeland by the wide, despoiled Fly River<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 35 years since Agapitus Kiku decided he didn\u2019t want a future without freedom.<\/p>\n<p>As a young man he\u2019d been pressed into a work gang, bristling under the watch of Indonesian soldiers whose authority over his tribal country, in the south-east corner of the vast contested province then called Irian Jaya, he refused to recognise.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/01\/refugees-on-their-own-land-the-west-papuans-in-limbo-in-papua-new-guinea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 7,000 West Papuans live in refugee villages, separated from their homeland by the wide, despoiled Fly RiverIt\u2019s 35 years since Agapitus Kiku decided he didn\u2019t want a future without freedom.As a young man he\u2019d been pressed into a work gang, bristl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,156,874,267,264,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-west-papua","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11689,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11688\/revisions\/11689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}