{"id":34238,"date":"2021-07-20T13:40:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T04:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/20\/muslims-across-indonesia-mark-grim-eid-al-adha-as-covid-crisis-deepens"},"modified":"2021-07-20T15:35:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T06:35:41","slug":"muslims-across-indonesia-mark-grim-eid-al-adha-as-covid-crisis-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34238","title":{"rendered":"Muslims across Indonesia mark grim Eid al-Adha as Covid crisis deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government bans large gatherings and toughens travel restrictions in world\u2019s most populous Muslim country<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Muslims across Indonesia marked a grim Eid al-Adha festival for a second year on Tuesday as the country <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/18\/indonesia-daily-covid-infections-higher-than-india-and-brazil\">struggles to cope <\/a>with a devastating new wave of coronavirus cases.<\/p>\n<p>Three weeks of surging infections and deaths have resulted in Indonesia replacing India as Asia\u2019s Covid-19 hotspot, with the most confirmed daily cases. In response to the new wave, the government had banned large gatherings and toughened travel restrictions. Religious leaders have also urged the faithful to pray inside their homes and children were told to not go out to meet friends.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/20\/muslims-across-indonesia-mark-grim-eid-al-adha-as-covid-crisis-deepens\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government bans large gatherings and toughens travel restrictions in world\u2019s most populous Muslim countryCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMuslims across Indonesia marked a grim Eid al-Adha festival for a second year on Tuesda&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,1066,156,914,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-indonesia","category-infectious-diseases","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\/34238","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34250,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34238\/revisions\/34250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}