{"id":52449,"date":"2023-02-08T09:36:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T00:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/08\/separatists-fighters-in-papua-hold-new-zealand-pilot-hostage"},"modified":"2023-02-08T09:36:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T00:36:54","slug":"separatists-fighters-in-papua-hold-new-zealand-pilot-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52449","title":{"rendered":"Separatists fighters in Papua hold New Zealand pilot hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police and military sent to Nduga area after Susi Air plane was stormed and then burned by separatists opposed to Indonesian rule<\/p>\n<p>Separatist fighters in Indonesia\u2019s Papua region have taken a New Zealand pilot hostage after setting a small commercial plane alight when it landed in a remote highland area on Tuesday, a pro-independence group said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson in Papua province, Ignatius Benny Adi Prabowo, said police and military personnel were sent to the area to locate the pilot and five passengers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/08\/separatists-fighters-in-papua-hold-new-zealand-pilot-hostage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police and military sent to Nduga area after Susi Air plane was stormed and then burned by separatists opposed to Indonesian ruleSeparatist fighters in Indonesia\u2019s Papua region have taken a New Zealand pilot hostage after setting a small commercial pla&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3559,"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":[41,156,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","category-new-zealand","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\/52449","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\/3559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52450,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52449\/revisions\/52450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}