{"id":1559,"date":"2015-09-10T20:03:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T20:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2015-09-10T20:03:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T20:03:35","slug":"png-governor-dismisses-indonesias-west-papua-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/?p=1559","title":{"rendered":"PNG Governor dismisses Indonesia&#8217;s West Papua stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\">Indonesia&#8217;s warning to the Pacific Islands Forum not to discuss the West Papua issue is to be expected, but should not be accepted.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to Gary Juffa, Governor of PNG&#8217;s Oro Province and a fierce supporter of independence for the Indonesian half of New Guinea island.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia&#8217;s vice-minister for Foreign Affairs, A M Fachir says the Forum is not the venue to broach this sensitive subject, and it is international protocol not to be seen to be meddling in the internal affairs of a sovereign state.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Juffa says Indonesia is in no position to dictate to the Pacific Island leaders over West Papua.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-09-10\/png-governor-dismisses-indonesias-west-papua-stance\/6765874\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-09-10\/png-governor-dismisses-indonesias-west-papua-stance\/6765874<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesia&#8217;s warning to the Pacific Islands Forum not to discuss the West Papua issue is to be expected, but should not be accepted. That&#8217;s according to Gary Juffa, Governor of PNG&#8217;s Oro Province and a fierce supporter of independence for the Indonesian half of New Guinea island. Indonesia&#8217;s vice-minister for Foreign Affairs, A M Fachir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}