Pohnpei, Jubi – Referendum untuk menentukan kemerdekaan bagi negara bagian Chuuk di Mikronesia, yang rencananya akan dilaksanakan bulan depan telah ditunda, menurut pejabat-pejabat senior di negara Pasifik itu, Jumat (22/2/2019). Sebelumnya, pemungutan suara untuk memutuskan apakah Chuuk akan berpisah dari Federasi…
Buka, Jubi – Australia membenarkan bahwa mereka akan menyalurkan bantuan hingga K 2,4 juta, untuk mendukung pekerjaan Komisi Referendum Bougainville (Bougainville Referendum Commission; BRC). Pengumuman itu dikeluarkan oleh Komisaris Tinggi Australia untuk PNG, Bruce Davis, di Buka, kemarin (24/2/2019), dalam pertemuan…
By Pacific affairs reporter Stephen Dziedzic The people of New Caledonia appear to have voted against independence in Sunday’s historic referendum. Early results indicate more than 60 per cent of voters in the territory have cast their ballot in favour of…
Initial results put no vote at 56.9%, as Macron says it’s ‘vote of confidence’ in French values The South Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia has voted against independence from France in a long-awaited referendum that capped a 30-year long decolonisation process. Based…
By Nic Maclellan in Noumea, New Caledonia Jean Leques, the former President of New Caledonia and mayor of Noumea, wants everyone to calm down. “The French Prime Minister asked that the referendum campaign proceed in a calm manner,” he…
The pro-independence Caledonian Union says it will discuss the territory’s sovereignty directly with the French state, should the path of the referendum fail to give Kanaks independence. In a weekend speech to the party leadership, its president Daniel Goa restated…
Oleh Nic Maclellan in Nouméa, Kaledonia Baru Satu bulan sebelum referendum Kaledonia Baru untuk menentukan nasib sendiri, wali kota-wali kota setempat dari seluruh negeri berkumpul pada Kamis 4 Oktober 2018 lalu, di Kantor Komisi Tinggi Prancis di ibu kota Nouméa.…
Oleh Luke Dawes. Dicopy dari TabloidJubi.com Perseteruan diplomatik terbesar antara Fiji dan Vanuatu di zaman modern, bukan disebabkan oleh perubahan iklim, tata pemerintahan, atau investasi Tiongkok di Pasifik Selatan, tetapi oleh biskuit. Vanuatu secara sepihak menerapkan larangan atas produk biskuit…
Koro Vaka’uta, RNZ Pacific Journalist @The_KorOcle koro.vakauta@radionz.co.nz Efforts are continuing to have Chuuk leave the Federated States of Mircronesia despite warnings its departure would adversely impact the island group. The FSM consists of the states of Pohnpei, Yap, Kosrae and Chuuk but…
By CLIFFORD FAIPARIK, The National PNG NINE key issues have been identified for discussion at the upcoming joint supervisory body (JSB) meeting scheduled for Thursday in Bougainville, the autonomous government’s peace agreement implementation Minister Albert Punghau says. Punghau said the…
