{"id":68026,"date":"2024-12-01T04:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T19:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/01\/time-for-compassion-to-prevail-could-the-remaining-bali-nine-members-finally-be-coming-home"},"modified":"2024-12-01T04:00:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T19:00:37","slug":"time-for-compassion-to-prevail-could-the-remaining-bali-nine-members-finally-be-coming-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68026","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Time for compassion to prevail\u2019: could the remaining Bali Nine members finally be coming home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new Indonesian president \u2013 who came to office with a questionable human rights record \u2013 has emerged as an unlikely champion for a prisoner swap deal<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the dark of the early morning of 29 April 2015, two members of Australia\u2019s so-called Bali Nine were each tied to a stake in a floodlit field on the Indonesian prison island of Nusakambangan.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran refused blindfolds, and sang as they stood before a firing squad of 12.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/01\/time-for-compassion-to-prevail-could-the-remaining-bali-nine-members-finally-be-coming-home\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Indonesian president \u2013 who came to office with a questionable human rights record \u2013 has emerged as an unlikely champion for a prisoner swap dealGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIn the dark of the early morning of 29 Ap&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4499,"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":[41,43,324,1096,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-bali-nine","category-indonesia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68026","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\/4499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68031,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68026\/revisions\/68031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}