{"id":6800,"date":"2019-08-12T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/12\/indonesia-angered-as-west-papua-independence-raises-its-head-at-pacific-forum"},"modified":"2019-08-12T08:54:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T23:54:00","slug":"indonesia-anger-as-west-papua-independence-raised-at-pacific-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=6800","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia anger as West Papua independence raised at Pacific forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breakaway leader Benny Wenda will use meeting in Tuvalu to push for UN vote on Jakarta\u2019s control of province <\/p>\n<p>Human rights violations and political independence in West Papua are set to command debate at this week\u2019s Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), where Papuan independence leader Benny Wenda will urge government leaders to support the \u201cFree Papua\u201d campaign amid recent escalating political violence.<\/p>\n<p>Exiled from Papua, but now an official representative attached to the Vanuatu government\u2019s delegation, Wenda is campaigning for a United Nations general assembly resolution next year that will re-examine the controversial 1969 Act of Free Choice vote that formalised Indonesian control of the province.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/12\/indonesia-angered-as-west-papua-independence-raises-its-head-at-pacific-forum\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breakaway leader Benny Wenda will use meeting in Tuvalu to push for UN vote on Jakarta\u2019s control of province Human rights violations and political independence in West Papua are set to command debate at this week\u2019s Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), where Pa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"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":[41,43,324,53,156,581,282,563,264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-human-rights","category-indonesia","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-south-pacific","category-tuvalu","category-west-papua"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6801,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions\/6801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}