{"id":8158,"date":"2019-08-30T11:27:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T02:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/30\/papua-protests-capital-jayapura-burns-during-night-of-violence"},"modified":"2019-08-30T11:27:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T02:27:27","slug":"papua-protests-capital-jayapura-burns-during-night-of-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8158","title":{"rendered":"Papua protests: capital Jayapura burns during night of violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesian president calls for calm after more than 1,000 protesters take to streets amid unrest over racial slurs and calls for independence <\/p>\n<p>Protesters in Indonesia\u2019s easternmost region of Papua have set buildings ablaze in the provincial capital Jayapura, forcing the state power firm to cut off electricity in some districts, state media and an executive of the utility said.<\/p>\n<p>Police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators who also set fire to cars and threw stones at shops and offices on Thursday, state news agency Antara said. Protesters also torched a local parliament office. \u201cSeveral public facilities and properties were damaged by rioters,\u201d national police spokesman Dedi Prasetyo said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/30\/papua-protests-capital-jayapura-burns-during-night-of-violence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesian president calls for calm after more than 1,000 protesters take to streets amid unrest over racial slurs and calls for independence Protesters in Indonesia\u2019s easternmost region of Papua have set buildings ablaze in the provincial capital Jaya&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[156,434,264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indonesia","category-joko-widodo","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\/8158","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8160,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions\/8160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}