February 2008

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Breaking: ULMWP membership of Melanesian Spearhead Group decision deferred until September in Vanuatu.

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Facing adversity with positivity

March 21, 2023 BY Edwina Williams Peaceful place: Anne Tudor regularly walks the Dementia Friendly Forest and Sensory Trail with her service dog, ANNE Tudor was still a teenager when her 24-year-old brother was killed in a car accident.Life already “felt serious,” and subsequently her caring, social justice-centred attitude emerged.Moving from Gordon to Rabaul in Papua New Guinea for three years, she worked as a teacher. “I’d had this idealistic idea, which was truly false, that people in Papua New Guinea were less advantaged than us,” Ms Tudor said. “They have this wonderful Wantok system where communities support each other.… Read more…
Wantok System is Life and Living System

It depends on every one of us: Do we want to follow the ideally conceptualized system, or the real and living system of life and living? If you asked me this question, then my answer is, "If the system does not exploit and destroy the nature and my custom values, norms and systems, then I will embrace it, in order to help life continue to emerge and then evolve. But if democracy is based upon materialistic mindset and anthropocentric concept, then I have a strong reason to quickly run away from it. The way to run away is to arrest… Read more…
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Wantok System by Agustin’s Wibowo

Looking at the economy in Daru, Papua New Guinea (PNG), a few questions come up. Why is it that Chinese residents who have run a business for less than 10 years have been able to control the economy, while the local people still trade in the same way their ancestors did hundreds of years ago? Mekha Eho\'o, my host, explained that a unique trait of Melanesians was that they could live without money. "The Western world is a capitalistic world that pursues materialistic happiness, while the Melanesian world is [based on] a ‘wantok’ system that believes happiness exists in human… Read more…
The Wantok Blong Yumi Bill was a bill unanimously adopted…

The Wantok Blong Yumi Bill was a bill unanimously adopted by the Parliament of Vanuatu in June 2010. It was derived from a "People’s Petition", tabled in Parliament by Independent MP Ralph Regenvanu. The bill's purpose was to express Vanuatu's recognition of West Papua's independence from Indonesia, and to commit Vanuatu to actively seek observer status for West Papua in the Melanesian Spearhead Group and the Pacific Islands Forum. The bill was supported both by Prime Minister Edward Natapei and opposition leader Maxime Carlot Korman, along with their respective parties.[3][4][5] The government stated that the bill would "allow [it] to… Read more…
Natuman makes dig at US big business in historic West…

By Dan McGarry, media director of the Vanuatu Daily Post “We are all Melanesian,” says Vanuatu Deputy Prime Minister Joe Natuman. “We are family. We regard it as an obligation to help one another.” Natuman recounted the history of West Papua from post-World War II days at the Morning Star flag-raising ceremony in Port Vila on Friday, remarking at the end that the struggle for independence was not only a struggle against colonialism, but a struggle against corporate and commercial interests too. Papua’s Morning Star and Vanuatu flags flying together at the Crow’s Nest in Port Vila. Image: Screenshot/AWPA “It’s… Read more…

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February 2008

Breaking: ULMWP membership of Melanesian Spearhead Group decision deferred until September in Vanuatu.

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