{"id":8750,"date":"2017-09-30T04:02:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T02:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/30\/west-papua-independence-petition-is-rebuffed-at-un\/"},"modified":"2017-09-30T04:02:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T02:02:17","slug":"west-papua-independence-petition-is-rebuffed-at-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=8750","title":{"rendered":"West Papua independence petition is rebuffed at UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exiled leader Benny Wenda presents smuggled petition to decolonisation committee but chair says Indonesian takeover of province is not on its agendaThe UN\u2019s decolonisation committee will not accept a petition signed by 1.8 million West Papuans calling for independence, saying West Papua\u2019s cause is outside the committee\u2019s mandate.In New York on Tuesday, the exiled West Papuan leader Benny Wenda presented the petition \u2013 banned by the Indonesian government, but smuggled across Papua and reportedly endorsed by 70% of the contested province\u2019s population \u2013 to the UN\u2019s decolonisation committee, known as the C24 and responsible for monitoring the progress of former colonies towards independence. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/sep\/30\/west-papua-independence-petition-is-rebuffed-at-un\" target=\"_blank\">West Papua independence petition is rebuffed at UN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exiled leader Benny Wenda presents smuggled petition to decolonisation committee but chair says Indonesian takeover of province is not on its agendaThe UN\u2019s decolonisation committee will not accept a petition signed by 1.8 million West Papuans calling for independence, saying West Papua\u2019s cause is outside the committee\u2019s mandate.In New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}