{"id":177222,"date":"2025-09-29T09:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T09:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177222\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T09:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T09:34:09","slug":"indonesian-polices-book-seizures-during-crackdown-on-protesters-draw-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177222\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesian police\u2019s book seizures during crackdown on protesters draw criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">JAKARTA &#8211; A recent wave of book confiscations during police crackdowns on alleged \u201cprovocateurs\u201d behind nationwide protests has been met with sharp criticism from rights groups, who say the practice undermines freedom of expression.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Following unrest in August over economic hardship and public frustration at officials\u2019 perceived insensitivity, police across several provinces arrested dozens accused of inciting riots and vandalism. Alongside the detentions, officers also seized books, later presented as \u201cevidence\u201d of the suspects\u2019 alleged violent activity.<\/p>\n<p>IndonesiaPolice raidsProtests<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JAKARTA &#8211; A recent wave of book confiscations during police crackdowns on alleged \u201cprovocateurs\u201d behind nationwide protests has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,457,134],"class_list":["post-177222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-books","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}