{"id":23240,"date":"2020-09-29T10:56:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T01:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/29\/protests-flare-in-papua-as-students-demand-independence-referendum"},"modified":"2020-09-29T10:56:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T01:56:53","slug":"protests-flare-in-papua-as-students-demand-independence-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23240","title":{"rendered":"Protests flare in Papua as students demand independence referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police fire shots as crowds of demonstrators demand a vote on secession from Indonesia<\/p>\n<p>Unrest has flared in the restive Indonesian region of Papua with police firing shots during a protest by hundreds of university students in the provincial capital, Jayapura.<\/p>\n<p>The group was demonstrating against plans to extend a special autonomy law that protestors say has not done enough to help people in one of the country\u2019s poorest regions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/29\/protests-flare-in-papua-as-students-demand-independence-referendum\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police fire shots as crowds of demonstrators demand a vote on secession from IndonesiaUnrest has flared in the restive Indonesian region of Papua with police firing shots during a protest by hundreds of university students in the provincial capital, Ja&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1583,"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":[41,156,874,84,323,264,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","category-pacific-islands","category-united-nations","category-vanuatu","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\/23240","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\/1583"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23241,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23240\/revisions\/23241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}