{"id":53041,"date":"2023-03-02T08:52:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T23:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/02\/this-is-my-last-responsibility-indonesias-parents-seek-justice-over-child-cough-syrup-deaths"},"modified":"2023-03-02T08:52:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T23:52:21","slug":"this-is-my-last-responsibility-indonesias-parents-seek-justice-over-child-cough-syrup-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53041","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This is my last responsibility\u2019: Indonesia\u2019s parents seek justice over child cough syrup deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 Indonesian children have died after taking syrups contaminated with toxic chemicals. Their parents want to make sure it can\u2019t happen again<\/p>\n<p>The Indonesian language has words for children who have lost their mothers or fathers, but none for parents who lose their children. Some say that is because the pain is inexplicable, something 42-year-old Safitri Puspa Rani can attest to.<\/p>\n<p>Safitri\u2019s eight-year-old son Panghegar died in October 2022, one month after his birthday. Panghegar had spent weeks in a paediatric intensive care unit, fighting acute kidney injury caused by syrup medicines that had been contaminated with toxic chemicals commonly found in industrial solvents and antifreeze.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/02\/this-is-my-last-responsibility-indonesias-parents-seek-justice-over-child-cough-syrup-deaths\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 Indonesian children have died after taking syrups contaminated with toxic chemicals. Their parents want to make sure it can\u2019t happen againThe Indonesian language has words for children who have lost their mothers or fathers, but none for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3613,"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":[41,156,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/53041","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\/3613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53042,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53041\/revisions\/53042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}