{"id":178016,"date":"2018-08-22T04:30:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T08:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=178016"},"modified":"2018-08-22T04:30:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T08:30:08","slug":"dfa-repatriates-15-filipino-boat-captains-jailed-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/22\/dfa-repatriates-15-filipino-boat-captains-jailed-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"DFA repatriates 15 Filipino boat captains jailed in Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_178018\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178018\" style=\"width: 891px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/dfa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-178018\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/dfa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"891\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/dfa.png 891w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/dfa-768x376.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 891px) 100vw, 891px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-178018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has repatriated 15 Filipino fishing boat captains imprisoned by Indonesian authorities for alleged illegal fishing in their waters. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dfaphl\/photos\/p.1071588469662653\/1071588469662653\/?type=1&amp;theater\">(Photo: Department of Foreign Affairs, Republic of the Philippines\/Facebook)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has repatriated 15 Filipino fishing boat captains imprisoned by Indonesian authorities for alleged illegal fishing in their waters.<\/p>\n<p>The DFA said five other Filipinos held for overstaying were also repatriated by the Philippine Consulate General in Manado on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The boat captains were released to officials of the Consulate General after serving jail terms of from five months to three years following their arrest for illegal fishing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore leaving for the Philippines, the boat captains expressed their appreciation for the welfare assistance extended to them while they were still in prison,\u201d Consul General Oscar Orcine said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Filipino seamen were also given welfare assistance of PHP5,000 each before they boarded their flights for the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Orcine said the Consulate General also assisted the other five repatriates from two families in returning to the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Consulate General successfully lobbied with Indonesian authorities in getting the five released simultaneously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has repatriated 15 Filipino fishing boat captains imprisoned by Indonesian authorities for alleged &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":178018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}