{"id":47000,"date":"2022-08-02T19:21:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T10:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/fee-rise-komodo-dragons-triggers-strike-indonesia-tourism-workers"},"modified":"2022-08-02T19:21:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T10:21:52","slug":"fee-rise-to-see-komodo-dragons-triggers-strike-by-indonesian-tourism-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47000","title":{"rendered":"Fee rise to see Komodo dragons triggers strike by Indonesian tourism workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of angry workers say government\u2019s 18-times increase will deter tourists and destroy incomes<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of Indonesian tourism workers have gone on strike over a hefty increase in ticket prices to see the country\u2019s Komodo dragons, a rise the government says is needed to preserve the habitat of the world\u2019s largest lizard.<\/p>\n<p>The fee to access two of the main islands of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/01\/indonesia-cancels-komodo-island-closure-saying-tourists-are-no-threat-to-dragons\">Komodo national park<\/a> shot up 18 times overnight to 3.75m rupiah (\u00a3205) on Monday, a jump that local workers said would scare off tourists and cause their incomes to dry up.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/fee-rise-komodo-dragons-triggers-strike-indonesia-tourism-workers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of angry workers say government\u2019s 18-times increase will deter tourists and destroy incomesHundreds of Indonesian tourism workers have gone on strike over a hefty increase in ticket prices to see the country\u2019s Komodo dragons, a rise the govern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[265,41,156,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","category-wildlife","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\/47000","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47001,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47000\/revisions\/47001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}