{"id":75724,"date":"2016-05-11T07:30:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=75724"},"modified":"2016-05-11T07:30:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:30:16","slug":"indonesia-4-citizens-held-hostage-philippines-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/05\/11\/indonesia-4-citizens-held-hostage-philippines-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia: 4 citizens held hostage in Philippines released"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_75725\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75725\" style=\"width: 668px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Joko-Widod.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75725\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Joko-Widod.jpg\" alt=\"Joko \u201cJokowi\u201d Widodo (in photo) said in a televised address that the men are under the protection of Philippine authorities and are in good condition. (Photo: Jokowi Official Website)\" width=\"668\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Joko-Widod.jpg 668w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Joko-Widod-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joko \u201cJokowi\u201d Widodo (in photo) said in a televised address that the men are under the protection of Philippine authorities and are in good condition. (Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/jokowi.co.id\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jokowi Official Website<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>JAKARTA, Indonesia\u2014Indonesia&#8217;s president said Wednesday that four citizens held hostage for nearly a month in the southern Philippines have been released.<\/p>\n<p>Joko \u201cJokowi\u201d Widodo said in a televised address that the men are under the protection of Philippine authorities and are in good condition.<\/p>\n<p>They were kidnapped at sea in mid-April by suspected Abu Sayyaf militants, the third in a series of attacks on tugboats that sparked a regional maritime security alarm.<\/p>\n<p>Jokowi said a meeting last week of foreign ministers and military chiefs from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines on improving security in border areas facilitated the release of the hostages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am grateful,\u201d he said. \u201cThis operation is one of the results of the implementation of the meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Abu Sayyaf militants freed 10 Indonesian crewmen who were seized at sea in March and believed taken to a jungle camp in Sulu, a predominantly Muslim province about 950 kilometres (590 miles) south of the Philippine capital, Manila.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia&#8217;s government has denied it paid a ransom for the release of its citizens.<\/p>\n<p>In late April, Abu Sayyaf gunmen beheaded a Canadian hostage in Sulu after they failed to receive a large ransom by a deadline they had set.<\/p>\n<p>At least eight foreign and local hostages remain in the hands of the Abu Sayyaf, including another Canadian and a Norwegian who were kidnapped last September, and a Dutch bird watcher who was kidnapped more than three years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA, Indonesia\u2014Indonesia&#8217;s president said Wednesday that four citizens held hostage for nearly a month in the southern Philippines have been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[254,262,2560,255,2556,343,4380],"class_list":["post-75724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-abu-sayyaf","tag-indonesia","tag-kidnapped","tag-kidnapped-a-filipino-couple-in-the-southern-philippines-on-sunday","tag-militants","tag-philippines","tag-released","mauthors-ali-kotarumalos","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75724","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=75724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}