{"id":23015,"date":"2020-09-23T13:42:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T04:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/23\/bougainville-independence-high-on-agenda-as-ishmael-toroama-elected-president"},"modified":"2020-09-23T13:42:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T04:42:04","slug":"bougainville-independence-high-on-agenda-as-ishmael-toroama-elected-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23015","title":{"rendered":"Bougainville independence high on agenda as Ishmael Toroama elected president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former rebel commander says law and order a priority, and says issue of PNG independence needs swift resolution<\/p>\n<p>Ishmael Toroama, a former secessionist military commander turned peacemaker and cocoa farmer, has been elected the president of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/audio\/2020\/jan\/31\/the-birth-of-bougainville-the-worlds-newest-country\">PNG\u2019s autonomous Bougainville region<\/a>, in a further fillip for the province\u2019s push for independence from Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe conducted a clean campaign, we did not give money to the voters and we did not intimidate any voters: people have used their God-given wisdom to vote for the right candidate,\u201d Toroama said after his victory was announced.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/23\/bougainville-independence-high-on-agenda-as-ishmael-toroama-elected-president\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former rebel commander says law and order a priority, and says issue of PNG independence needs swift resolutionIshmael Toroama, a former secessionist military commander turned peacemaker and cocoa farmer, has been elected the president of PNG\u2019s autonom&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1575,"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":[41,945,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bougainville","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","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\/23015","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\/1575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23016,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23015\/revisions\/23016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}