{"id":21805,"date":"2020-08-18T16:15:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T07:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/18\/indonesia-extends-deadline-for-foreigners-to-leave-country-or-switch-visas"},"modified":"2020-08-18T16:15:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T07:15:39","slug":"indonesia-extends-deadline-for-foreigners-to-leave-country-or-switch-visas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21805","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia extends deadline for foreigners to leave country or switch visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive<\/strong>: foreigners hail decision \u2018generous\u2019 and \u2018lenient\u2019, but for Australians in Bali, getting back home remains a challenge <\/p>\n<p>The Indonesian government has extended a deadline for foreigners to leave the country or switch or extend their visas, following concerns that people may be forced to leave the country ahead of a deadline later this week.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Indonesia announced new visa rules for foreigners who had previously been allowed to stay in the country under emergency visas due to the coronavirus pandemic. Officials set foreigners a deadline of 30 days to apply for monthly extensions, switch visas or leave the country. Anyone who didn\u2019t comply, officials said, would be subject to daily fines.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/18\/indonesia-extends-deadline-for-foreigners-to-leave-country-or-switch-visas\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: foreigners hail decision \u2018generous\u2019 and \u2018lenient\u2019, but for Australians in Bali, getting back home remains a challenge The Indonesian government has extended a deadline for foreigners to leave the country or switch or extend their visas, foll&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1513,"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":[41,43,413,1069,156,1633,854],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-bali","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-indonesia","category-perth","category-western-australia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21805","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\/1513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21807,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21805\/revisions\/21807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}