{"id":18161,"date":"2021-01-28T10:40:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T10:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/?p=54161"},"modified":"2021-01-28T10:40:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T10:40:53","slug":"15-arrested-at-jakarta-parliament-rally-against-papuan-special-autonomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/28\/15-arrested-at-jakarta-parliament-rally-against-papuan-special-autonomy\/","title":{"rendered":"15 arrested at Jakarta parliament rally against Papuan special autonomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><em>By Adi Briantika in Jakarta<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A group of Papuan students in front of the House of Representatives (DPR) building in Jakarta, who were planning to hold a protest action opposing the extension of Papuan Special Autonomy (Otsus), have been arrested and taken to the Metro Jaya regional police headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Around 15 people were taken away and put into a police crowd control vehicle&#8221;, one of the participants, Ambrosius Mulait, told <em>Tirto<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Mulait said he did not know the reason for the arrest yesterday because the group had not yet arrived at the rally location when the arrests took place.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/?s=West+Papua\"><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> Other West Papua reports<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two days ago, said Mulait, the group sent a written notification of the action to police, but the police did not issue a permit for the demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>He suspects that this was the reason for the arrest &#8211; as well as the pretext of Covid-19 health protocols which prohibit crowds from gathering.<\/p>\n<p>Although they tried to negotiate with the police to be allowed to demonstrate, this did not succeed.<\/p>\n<p>Mulait and the other participants who were not arrested are still being held in front of the parliament under police guard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How can Papuans convey their right to an opinion opposing Otsus, but are always silenced. Today we were silenced,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>A similar incident occurred on 27 October 2020 when demonstrators near the Cenderawasih University in Jayapura, Papua, were dispersed and 13 were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Action coordinator Mani Iyaba said that based on directives issued by the Jayapura district police, &#8220;Any protesters can be beaten, trampled underfoot&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em>Translated by James Balowski for IndoLeft News. The original title of the article was <a href=\"https:\/\/tirto.id\/15-demonstran-tolak-otsus-papua-jilid-ii-ditangkap-di-kompleks-dpr-f9Fg\">&#8220;15 Demonstran Tolak Otsus Papua Jilid II Ditangkap di Kompleks DPR&#8221;<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/2021\/01\/28\/15-arrested-at-jakarta-parliament-rally-against-papuan-special-autonomy\/\">Asia Pacific Report<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adi Briantika in Jakarta A group of Papuan students in front of the House of Representatives (DPR) building in Jakarta, who were planning to hold a protest action opposing the extension of Papuan Special Autonomy (Otsus), have been arrested and taken to the Metro Jaya regional police headquarters. \u201cAround 15 people were taken away<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,7,207,118,4611,12,1156,2907,1743,19,299],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18162,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18161\/revisions\/18162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}