{"id":50728,"date":"2022-11-30T14:18:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T05:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/30\/indonesia-puts-100-island-archipelago-up-for-auction-sparking-environmental-concerns"},"modified":"2022-11-30T14:18:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T05:18:32","slug":"indonesia-puts-100-island-archipelago-up-for-auction-sparking-environmental-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50728","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia puts 100-island archipelago up for auction, sparking environmental concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uninhabited Widi Reserve is in a marine-protected zone and being promoted as \u2018one of the most intact coral atoll ecosystems left on Earth\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The development rights to an entire Indonesian archipelago with more than 100 tropical islands is set to be auctioned next week, sparking concerns for the environmental impact on what Sotheby\u2019s described as \u201cone of the most intact coral atoll ecosystems left on Earth\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The uninhabited Widi Reserve is based in a marine-protected zone in the \u201cCoral Triangle\u201d area of eastern Indonesia, and will go on sale via Sotheby\u2019s Concierge Auctions in New York from 8-14 December.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/30\/indonesia-puts-100-island-archipelago-up-for-auction-sparking-environmental-concerns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uninhabited Widi Reserve is in a marine-protected zone and being promoted as \u2018one of the most intact coral atoll ecosystems left on Earth\u2019The development rights to an entire Indonesian archipelago with more than 100 tropical islands is set to be auctio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3464,"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":[41,65,156,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-indonesia","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\/50728","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\/3464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50729,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50728\/revisions\/50729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}