{"id":80958,"date":"2016-09-10T07:39:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T11:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=80958"},"modified":"2016-09-10T07:39:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T11:39:33","slug":"duterte-indonesia-can-chase-pirates-philippine-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/09\/10\/duterte-indonesia-can-chase-pirates-philippine-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte: Indonesia can chase pirates into Philippine waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_80959\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80959\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/14102743_1437143246315332_8215018389026752992_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80959\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/14102743_1437143246315332_8215018389026752992_n.jpg\" alt=\"Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte with Indonesian president Joko Widodo. (PCO photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/14102743_1437143246315332_8215018389026752992_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/14102743_1437143246315332_8215018389026752992_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/14102743_1437143246315332_8215018389026752992_n-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte with Indonesian president Joko Widodo. (PCO photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>JAKARTA, Indonesia\u2014Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gave Indonesian forces the right to pursue pirates into Philippine waters, saying piracy is one of the main problems between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte, who is visiting Jakarta, discussed piracy and other security issues on Friday with Indonesian President Joko \u201cJokowi\u201d Widodo.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was sorry that even shipments of coal from Indonesia destined for Philippine power plants are being affected by piracy.<\/p>\n<p>If Indonesian forces are chasing pirates and they enter Philippine waters, \u201cthey can go ahead and blast them off,\u201d Duterte said. \u201cThat&#8217;s my word actually with Widodo. I said, &#8216;blow them up.\u201d&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cBut maybe if there are sharks around, then we can just feed them to the sharks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nine Indonesians are among 16 foreign hostages currently being held by the Muslim extremist group Abu Sayyaf in the southern Philippines, where Muslim separatist rebellions have raged for decades.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines agreed to carry out co-ordinated patrols following a series of kidnappings and piracy attacks that undermined commerce in the Celebes Sea, where their sea borders overlap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA, Indonesia\u2014Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gave Indonesian forces the right to pursue pirates into Philippine waters, saying piracy is one &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":80959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[6054,262,6785,343,12181],"class_list":["post-80958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-duterte","tag-indonesia","tag-joko-widodo","tag-philippines","tag-pirates","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80958","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=80958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}