Author: melanesianews

• Lima Unsur Pokok dalam UUDS NRWP yang Patut Diketahui Publik

  Oleh Tim Ahli Pembuatan UUDS NRWP dari Parlemen Nasional West Papua (PNWP) Catatan Pembuka Undang-Undang Dasar Sementara Negara Republik West Papua (UUDS NRWP) yang baru-baru diajukan oleh Parlemen Nasional West…

  November 10, 2020

• Gen. WPRA A. Tabi: There is No Struggle without Internal Conflict, So Do these 3 Things to Celebrate Life

  Wantok Demokracy recognizes and adopts the Law of the Nature in our constitution

  October 23, 2020

• Sem Karoba: “Wantok System” Defines whether or not I am Really a Melanesian Person

  Many Melanesian leaders and thinkers have been brainwashed to think that “Wantok System” is nepotism, and therefore Wantok System should be wiped out from Melanesian peoples in all aspects of…

  October 21, 2020

• Democracy concept lost

  DEVELOPED democratic countries such as the US and UK elect leaders on merit and on certain requirements -especially policies.They elect people who know how to run a democracy. More so…

  May 10, 2020

• Reflecting on the Wantok System after 40 years of community

  Posted By Milton Ragaruma – By Derek Mane at the Island Sun ON the morning of July 7, 1978, Solomon Islanders in various locations throughout the country lower the Union Jack and…

  July 12, 2018

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

  May 1, 2018

• Wantok system corrupts the country

  By Milton Ragaruma – the Island Sun DEAR EDITOR, as a student and a concerned citizen of the Solomon Islands, I urge all government sectors and citizens to stop practising…

  April 2, 2018

• Government system crippled by wantok system

  BY BEN BILUA, https://theislandsun.com.sb/, Milton Ragaruma – WANTOK System (or nepotism) has invaded the government system and is identified as a major influential driver of poor services. Solomon Islands Public Service…

  September 15, 2017

• A Chronology of PT Minersave’s (Freeport’s) Entry into Intan Jaya Regency, West Papua

  This article from KOMISI, a group of students from Intan Jaya in West Papua (in co-operation with the Suara Papua website), recounts how the Freeport mining company, through its subsidiaries, established exploration…

  December 22, 2012

• Yusak Pakage: ‘I was arrested for being a former tapol.’

  December 22, 2012