{"id":25273,"date":"2020-12-01T09:33:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T00:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/01\/west-papua-independence-leaders-declare-government-in-waiting"},"modified":"2020-12-01T09:33:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T00:33:25","slug":"west-papua-independence-leaders-declare-government-in-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25273","title":{"rendered":"West Papua independence leaders declare &#8216;government-in-waiting&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Province\u2019s breakaway movement nominates exiled leader as interim president as conflict-ridden Indonesian region marks independence day<\/p>\n<p>West Papuan leaders have declared a provisional \u201cgovernment-in-waiting\u201d of the contested Indonesian province, as the United Nations said it was \u201cdisturbed by escalating violence\u201d there, including the killing of a child allegedly by security forces.<\/p>\n<p>The province marks independence day on 1 December, the anniversary of West Papua\u2019s declaration of independence from Dutch colonial rule in 1961 and the raising of its now-banned Morning Star flag.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/01\/west-papua-independence-leaders-declare-government-in-waiting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Province\u2019s breakaway movement nominates exiled leader as interim president as conflict-ridden Indonesian region marks independence dayWest Papuan leaders have declared a provisional \u201cgovernment-in-waiting\u201d of the contested Indonesian province, as the U&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1402,"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":[41,156,264,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","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\/25273","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\/1402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25274,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25273\/revisions\/25274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}