{"id":68395,"date":"2024-12-18T23:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/18\/china-migrants-migration-route-indonesia-australia-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2024-12-18T23:00:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T14:00:46","slug":"fleeing-xis-china-following-the-trail-of-migrants-trying-to-reach-australia-through-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68395","title":{"rendered":"Fleeing Xi\u2019s China: following the trail of migrants trying to reach Australia through Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new and high-stakes escape route has been revealed, through the Indonesian archipelago to a smuggler\u2019s boat<\/p>\n<p>Paul, an Indonesian fisherman, says he<strong> <\/strong>was working as a rideshare driver in the dusty streets of Kupang in West Timor when he came across half a dozen Chinese men on the side of the road. They were wet up to their waist, carrying a backpack each, and spoke no Indonesian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had walked from the beach, from the mangrove forest to the main road. They said they had difficulty with their boat engine,\u201d Paul recalls. They asked for directions to a nearby hotel \u2026 and went on their way. Paul, a former people smuggler from Rote Island, called the police. \u201cI used to bring people like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/18\/china-migrants-migration-route-indonesia-australia-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new and high-stakes escape route has been revealed, through the Indonesian archipelago to a smuggler\u2019s boatPaul, an Indonesian fisherman, says he was working as a rideshare driver in the dusty streets of Kupang in West Timor when he came across half &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4529,"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":[41,43,50,156,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","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\/68395","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\/4529"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68396,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68395\/revisions\/68396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}