(7 September 2021) "Press Review: Mining in the South Pacific" Vol. 13, No. 4, July - August 2021, 51 pages, available here ------------------------ Vortragshinweis: "Bougainville: ein neuer Staat ist geboren. Geschichte, Konflikte, Perspektiven". Jour Fixe des Freundeskreises des Weltkulturen Museums Frankfurt/Main, link Auf unbekannte Zeit verschoben! ------------------------ News Bougainville public service to run independently of PNG Bougainville's public service is now to officially operate independently of Papua New Guinea's.This follows the formal transfer of the remaining powers and functions of the Department of the Autonomous Bougainville Government from the PNG national government; National 9 Aug 2021, link ------------------------ Repression not the answer to Fiji´s political dilemma Opinion by Steven Ratuva, Radio New Zealand, 2 Aug 2021, link ------------------------ Human Rights Law Centre, 21 July 2021: Bougainville communities secure commitment from Rio Tinto to assess environmental and human rights impacts of former mine; link see also news Radio New Zealand, link Panguna tailings wasteland; photo: HRLC ------------------------ Indonesian lawmakers pass controversial bill to reshape West Papua Johnny Blades, Radio New Zealand 16 July 2021, link A demonstration by West Papuans against the Indonesian government's plans for Special Autonomy provisions for their region, Manokwari, 15 July 2021 Photo: RNZ ------------------------ 2027 target date for Bougainville independence Bougainville's leaders have accepted a deadline of no later than 2027 to gain independence from Papua New Guinea, RNZ 8 July 2021, link PNG's prime minister James Marape (right) shakes hands with Ishmael Toroama, the president of the autonomous region of Bougainville, 5 February 2021. Photo: RNZ 16.04.2021, PNG PM Media ------------------------ Australian gold project Simberi reports failure at tailings pipeline (deep sea tailings placement, DSTP) in New Ireland, PNG National 2 July 2021, link ------------------------ Westpapuan Freeport eyes copper project in PNG National 2 July 2021, link ------------------------ Environmental groups, scientists call for ban on deep sea mining Hundreds of scientists, and coalitions of churches, environmentalists, and NGOs are part of a widespread outcry calling for a ban on deep sea mining, RNZ 2 July 2021, link Victor Pickering, a Greenpeace activist from Fiji, in front of the Maersk Launcher, a ship chartered by DeepGreen. Photo: Supplied / Greenpeace Deep sea mining by 2023 gets green light in Pacific The International Seabed Authority has two years to finalise regulations governing the controversial industry; see The Guardian, 30 June 2021, link; statement by Deep Sea Conservation Coalition link and WWF 29 June 2021 link, PANG, Fiji 1 July 2021 link Illustration © WWF ------------------------ Scientists from across the world call for a moratorium on deep-sea mining.  Signed by 317 marine science & policy experts from 44 countries, 24 June 2021, link ------------------------ 47th session of the Human Rights Council, Geneva, 22 June 2021 While a group of 44 European and Western countries (including the Pacific states of Palau and Nauru) expressed concern about China´s human rights violations in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong (link), 68 developing countries led by Belarus, including the Pacific states of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Kiribati and Tonga, sided with Beijing and rejected interference in China´s internal affairs (link). ------------------------  Pacific Plunder The extraction of valuable resources from across the Pacific has made companies billions but comes at a sometimes catastrophic cost Who profits from the mass extraction of the region's natural resources? A series from Guardian Australia since 30 May 2021, link A rusted truck remains at a Panguna mine in Bougainville, which recently voted for independence  from Papua New Guinea. Photograph: Illya Gridneff/AAP A global audit of Pacific resource extraction undertaken by the Guardian’s Pacific Project has revealed that: China dominates resource extraction in the region, taking just over half the total tonnes of the minerals, timber and fish exported. In some industries, Pacific communities see less than 12% of the final value of the resources being extracted, with little paid in royalties or reinvested in the countries which own the resources. Despite their collective natural resource wealth, GDP per capita remains low for many Pacific Island states. The extraction each year of billions of dollars worth of minerals, oil, gas and timber – US$11.8bn in 2019 - is causing environmental devastation, poisoning rivers and      forests, and degrading food security. The scale of these extractive industries is also having significant social and health     impacts on Pacific people. A logging truck heads through the village of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea, en route to the Vanimo Forest Products log camp where the logs will be loaded onto a ship for export to China. Photograph: Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images ------------------------ 23 July 2021: Samoa court declares FAST party new government; link More than 100 days since the 9 April election Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, the daughter of Samoa's first prime minister, becomes the country's first woman in the role. Political and Constitutional Crisis in Samoa: Samoa incumbent leader rejects first female Prime Minister's swearing in as 'treason' Reports by Radio New Zealand link Photo: RNZ/Vinay Ranchhod, RNZ 27 May 2021 ------------------------ Fiji´s 1987 coup: from trauma to cohesion By Shailendra Singh, DevPolicy Blog on 25 May 2021, link ------------------------ Titelstory der Nürnberger Nachrichten vom 22. Mai 2021: link Kolonialismus: Wie Neuendettelsauer Missionare Neuguinea ausbeuteten ------------------------ Sachbuch & Literaturtipp Mai 2021 Das Luf-Boot vor der Handelsstation von Hernsheim & Co. auf Matupi, 1903. Foto: Richard Parkinson/Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Götz Aly: Das Prachtboot. Wie Deutsche die Kunstschätze der Südsee raubten. link zum Verlag SPIEGEL-Online Interview mit Götz Aly: Kolonialverbrechen in der Südsee "Die Deutschen zerstörten ein Paradies - und behaupten bis heute das Gegenteil" 8. Mai 2021, link Artikel Süddeutsche Zeitung: Das unmögliche Exponat. 10. Mai 2021, link s.a Artikel in der Neuen Züricher Zeitung vom 19. Mai 2021, link & Katharina Döbler: Dein ist das Reich. Ein ungewöhnlicher Familienroman über ein verschwiegenes Kapitel deutscher Geschichte: die Beziehung zwischen christlichem Sendungsbewusstsein, Kolonialismus und Rassismus. Rezension von Jörg Häntzschel in Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 3. Juli 2021,  link ------------------------ Papua New Guinea´s founding father Sir Michael Somare died Friday, 26 February 2021 Image: National 2 March 2021, link `Papa blo kantri´ Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare in Madang 2012 (photo: Roland Seib) Obituaries on the death of Sir Michael by Ron May (ANU), link and Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific Journalist, link PNG’s first prime minister, Michael Somare, and first Governor-General, John Guise, Independence Day ceremony, 1975 (photo:Denis Williams/PNG Post Courier) ------------------------ PNG: Government accepts new gold and copper mine Illustration: National 28 Feb. 2021, link ------------------------ Bougainville president meets rebel king in reconciliation RNZ 26 Jan. 2021, link 'King' Noah Musingku meets Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama at Tonu, 22 January 2021. Photo: Anthony Kaybing / ABG ------------------------ Since 13 November 2020: Power struggle for the post of prime minister in Papua New Guinea 16 December 2020: A sigh of relief, full story RNZ 17 Dec. 2020, link Photo: National 17 Dec. 2020, link Image: PNG National 11 Dec. 2020, link ------------------------ (17. Nov. 2020) Website der AG Tiefseebergbau ist online:  www.stoptiefseebergbau.de ------------------------ (2 Nov. 2020) Neues Positionspapier des AK Rohstoffe: Krisenverschärfendes Handeln stoppen - Rohstoffwende umsetzen, link ------------------------ Walking into Nogoli, PNG Highlands © James McIlraith/University of Otago New Report from ACT NOW!, Jubilee Australia and the Oakland Institute:  Calls for a Dramatic Change from Extraction to Inclusion for Real Development in Papua New Guinea, Oct. 2020, link ------------------------ Ishmael Toroama declared president-elect of Bougainville, PNG RNZ 23 Sept. 2020, link ------------------------ (1 Sept 2020) new report: Intern. Cyber Policy Centre & Australian Strategic Policy Institute: The Chinese Communist Party´s coercive diplomacy, link ------------------------ (17 August 2020) East Sepik people have rejected the Frieda River copper/gold project according to Governor Allan Bird; link ------------------------ (6 August 2020) The Oxygen Project - STOP DEEP SEABED MINING! Legendary eco-activists Jane Fonda and Sylvia Earle, along with Phillipe Cousteau, Julien Lennon, and other conservationists star in this emotional video asking us to help stop a destructive new industry: Deep Seabed Mining; link ------------------------ (25 July 2020) Article by Franco Zocca from 2012 about Belden Namah, currently Papua New Guinea´s opposition leader in the national parliament: Life excursus of Mr Belden Namah, here ------------------------ (25 June 2020) New paper: Pacific Network on Globalization & Ozeanien-Dialog Rough Seas: Looming Dangers of the Blue Economy, link ------------------------ New photo gallery New Zealand available here ------------------------ New Report Highlights Deep Sea Nodule Mining Danger to Pacific Ocean and Island Nations Deep Sea Mining Campaign, 20 May 2020, link Image: WILLYAM ------------------------ Inside Indonesia's Secret War for West Papua Just north of Australia a secret war is being fought. West Papuan independence  fighters and Indonesian security forces are involved in a protracted and bloody battle over the issue of Papuan independence. ABC Foreign Correspondent 12 May 2020; link; Background: The battle for West Papuan independence has intensified; Post-Courier link Ronny Kareni, West Papuan Musician and Activist, Canberra ------------------------ Arbeitskreis Rohstoffe: 12 Argumente für eine Rohstoffwende, 5. Mai 2020, link ------------------------ "Save the Sepik" `Project Sepik´ calls for PNG Government to halt Frieda mining project Frieda River heading north to join the Sepik River. Photo: Facebook - Sepik Capital, PNG - Wewak Urban Local Level Government; RNZ 9 April 2020 link ------------------------ Literaturtipp: "Die zornige Stimme der Internierten in Australien" (SZ) "Woher komme ich? Aus dem Land der Flüsse, dem Land der Wasserfälle, dem Land der uralten Gesänge, dem Land der Berge. (...) Aus einem kleinen Dorf inmitten eines Kastanienwalds." (291) Original title: "No Friend but the Mountains. Writing from Manus Prison". Sydney 2018 zum Hintergrund: link Rezension von Jan Bielicki, Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 3. Feb. 2019, link   see also J.M. Coetzee, New York Review of Books 26 Sept. 2019, link ------------------------ 23-year old Geraldine Damana and her baby Joylin, outside their home inside the Panguna mine pit; photo: HRLC New report by Human Rights Law Centre: After the mine. Living with Rio Tinto´s deadly legacy.   April 2020, link ------------------------ Death toll from Papua 2019 protest month put at 59, RNZ 6 March 2020, link Protest march in Jayapura, West Papua against racism towards Papuans in Indonesia 19 Aug 2019 photo: RNZ 6 March 2020 ------------------------ 19 Feb 2020 new report by the London Mining Network: Cut and run: How Britain´s top mining companies have wrecked ecosystems without being held to account, link Neue Studie der Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik zur Strategischen Rivalität zwischen USA und China, Feb. 2020, link Documentary: Malaysian Logging Colonialism in Papua New Guinea UK based Sarawak Report by journalist Clare Rewcastle-Brown, 7 Jan 2020, link ------------------------ Interview mit der Deutschen Welle: Chinas "Umarmung" der Pazifikinseln beunruhigt Westen Pekings verstärktes Engagement in der Südsee ist bislang nur wirtschaftlich. Aber militärisch-strategische Absichten werden vermutet, Sicherheitspolitiker in der Nachbarschaft sind alarmiert. Sogar Berlin hat reagiert. 2. Dezember 2019, link ------------------------ Bougainville independence referendum: Bougainville referendum report gives historical perspective Radio New Zealand/RNZ 12 June 2020, link Final Bougainville referendum report presented to PNG RNZ 5 June 2020, link In photos: Bougainville chooses independence, as Papua New Guinea makes pitch. RNZ 20 December 2019, link The Bougainville Referendum Commission (BRC) returned the referendum writ with the results to the Governor General at Government House in Port Moresby RNZ 13 Dec 2019, Photo: Facebook/BRC Bougainville voted yes to becoming the world´s newest nation. Now begins the gold rush. ABC-PNG correspondent Natalie Whiting on 13 December 2019, link 11 December 2019: Bougainville - A new sovereign state is born Bougainville flag flies high in Panguna Photo: RNZ Pacific 21 Nov 2019 Johnny Blades A 97.7 percent majority has voted for independence in Bougainville´s historic referendum. Over 85 percent of those enrolled having voted. Consultations with the Papua New Guinea government will follow. The chairperson of the Bougainville Referendum Commission, former Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern, paid tribute to the people for their enthusiastic and peaceful participation. The leader of the Australian  Observation Mission, Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne, said, the referendum process was "free, fair and credible". link People of Bougainville celebrating the outcome of the referendum in Buka on Wednesday, Photo: The New York Times 11 Dec 2019, Courtesy of Serahphina Aupong/UN in PNG via AP Bougainville people take their flag with them to vote for the referendum. Photo: RNZ 7 Dec 2019, Johnny Blades Photo essay: Bougainville´s historic independence referendum, RNZ 6 Dec 2019 link Bougainville referendum inspires hope, RNZ 28 Nov 2019 link 23 Nov - 7 Dec 2019 Polling period for the referendum on Bougainville´s independence from Papua New Guinea PNG leaders caution ahead of Bougainville vote, RNZ 22 Nov 2019, link Bougainvilleans check the voter roll ahead of their region´s independence referendum; Photo: RNZ 7 Nov 2019, Bougainville Referendum Commission "Whatever we think about whether independence for Bougainville is a good or bad thing, the more important principle is that we work to honour UN-ratified peace agreements. If our region fails to do that, if the UN Security Council fails to, we will find it more difficult to reach peace agreements to end future wars." John Braithwaite and Miranda Forsyth, 28 Sept 2017, Blog   ------------------------ Chinese-owned Ramu Nickel mine in PNG shut down after toxic slurry spill Photo: RNZ 24 Oct. 2019 Facebook Elisha Wesley Mizeu; See ABC report 25 Oct 2019 link ------------------------ Akilisi Pohiva´s son wins by-election, RNZ 28 Nov 2019 link Pacific leaders pay tribute to Akilisi Pohiva, link 12 Sept 2019, Akilisi Pohiva, the leading figure of Tonga´s pro-democracy movement and twofold prime minister died today at the age of 78; RNZ link photo: RNZ / Jamie Tahana ------------------------ Das moderne Weltsystem - Zum Tode von Immanuel Wallerstein. Ein Nachruf. SZ vom 3. Sept. 2019, link ------------------------ PNG´s Resource Curse: Double or Nothing Revisited Paul Flanagan, PNG Economics, 12 June 2019, link ------------------------ Demolition of historical courthouse in Samoa begins Link: RNZ 19 May 2020 New Zealand, British, Australian and French servicemen raise the Union Jack at the Apia courthouse in August 1914 Photo: nzhistory.govt.nz 117 year-old German colonial courthouse in Apia will be pulled down, Samoan PM Photo: Roland Seib, 2011; RNZ report 8 June 2019 link ------------------------ New Papua New Guinea prime minister calls for unity James Marape, left, being sworn in as prime minister of PNG by the governor general  Sir Robert Dadae, 30 May 2019.  Photo: PNG prime minister´s office media; link RNZ report Marape promises to rebuild country in first address to PNG, link RNZ 6 June 2019 ------------------------ Chinese President Xi Jinping and officials meet with Papua New Guinea´s Prime Minister Peter O´Neill and   ministerial colleagues at the 2nd global Belt & Road Forum in Beijing, 25 April 2019; Photo: Xinhua/Yan Yan ------------------------ On the death of Bill Standish, Australian National University, Canberra Dr Bill Standish, 14.6.1944 - 31.3.2019, remembered as a fearless commentator and expert analyst of PNG politics. An excellent colleague. During my PhD research in 1988, I shared a room with Bill at the ANU for three months. Link: Liam Fox on Pacific Beat, 15 April 2019 ------------------------ Video Tipp: Lost in Dhaka, March 2019 link ------------------------ Book review: In defence of `Silent Invasion´ The book that launched a thousand rants by Kevin Carrico Policy Forum of the Asia & The Pacific Policy Society, 1 March 2019, link ------------------------ New study by Jubilee Australia, 14 June 2019, link: The Frieda River Mine and the Threat to the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea for more information link: Save the Sepik river and its people ------------------------ Auswahl jüngster Veröffentlichungen Neue Publikation vom Dez. 2020, link Artikel: „Goldrausch in der Tiefsee – was ist dran?“, hier Rezension: Nicole Haley and Kerry Zubrinich: 2017 Papua New Guinea General Elections. Election Observation Report. Asien 2020, hier Review: Siobhan McDonnell, Matthew Allen and Colin Filer (eds.): Kastom, Property and Ideology. Land Transformations in Melanesia. Catalyst 2019, available here Rezensionen: Anthony Regan: The Bougainville Referendum. Law, Administration and Politics sowie Ben Bohane: The Bougainville referendum and beyond. Online-Publikation 22. Nov. 2019, 5 Seiten, verfügbar hier Photo: Roland Seib „Zeitenwende im Pazifik: Der Aufstieg Chinas“. Blickwechsel für das China-Programm der Stiftung Asienhaus, Köln 1. August 2019, 9 Seiten, link Map: Mercator Institute for China Studies, deutsche  Karte, Map in english „Zeitenwende im Pazifik: Der Aufstieg Chinas und das Projekt Neue Seidenstraße“. Online Publikation, 29. April 2019, 12 Seiten, verfügbar hier Chinese President Xi Jinping hosts a collective meeting with Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill and Pacific leaders from Niue, Cook Islands, Samoa, Federated States of Micronesia, Vanuatu, Tonga and Fiji before the APEC summit in Port Moresby, 16 November 2018 (Xinhua/Pang Xinglei) Armed clan near Komo, Hela Province, Papua New Guinea. Photo: Michael Main, The Monthly, May 2018 „Das Goldene Zeitalter der Gasförderung?  Der Ressourcenfluch und die Folgen in Papua-Neuguinea“. Ozeanien-Dialog, Hamburg, März 2019, link Photo: Christina Hill Rezension: Jubilee Australia: Christina Hill and Luke Fletcher (eds): Growing Bougainville´s Future: Choices for an Island and its peoples. 17. Januar 2019, hier Kommentar zur Studie von Fair Oceans und Brot für die Welt: Solwara 1: Bergbau am Meeresboden vor Papua-Neuguinea. Hintergründe, Folgen, Widerstand. 12. Oktober 2018. hier             Rezension: Jubilee Australia 2018:              Double or nothing. The broken            economic promises of PNG LNG         und On shaky ground. PNG LNG and            the consequences of  development               failure, 6. September 2018, hier Rezension: Sean Dorney: The Embarrassed Colonialist. 11. Juni 2018, hier Vortrag Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Köln, 26. Februar 2018, 34 Folien hier Pressespiegel "Tiefseebergbau in den internationalen Medien 2015 - 2017". Zusammenstellung für die Stiftung Asienhaus, Köln, online seit 19.1.2018, link Rezension: Jack Corbett: Being Political. Leadership and Democracy in the Pacific Islands. Asien 2017, hier The Observation Report of Transparency International Papua New Guinea "makes it clear that the 2017 elections were flawed to an unforgivable extent. We as a nation have allowed far too many of our people to be robbed of a basic right: the right to influence the result of an election." (p. iii) 10 November 2017, link Vortrag Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt/M., 17. Oktober 2017, 29 Folien hier "Wettlauf um die Meeresschätze im Pazifik: Fakten und Thesen zum Tiefseebergbau". Vortrag Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt/M., 4. Juni 2017, 36 Folien hier Rezension: Klaus Neumann: Across the Seas. Australia´s Response to Refugees. A History. Collingwood/Victoria 2015. Anthropos 111.2016, hier           "Das Paradox vom Wohlstand ohne Entwicklung: Papua-Neuguinea und der Bergbau". Blickwechsel der Stiftung Asienhaus, Köln, September 2016, link Rezension: Kristian Lasslett: State Crime on the Margins of Empire. Rio Tinto, the War on Bougainville and Resistance to Mining. März 2016, hier Plundering Nature? Deep Sea Mining - An Incalculable Risk. Powerpoint Presentation für die Stiftung Asienhaus, Köln 3.3.2016, deutsche Fassung: Raubbau in den letzten Nischen: Tiefseebergbau - ein unkalkulierbares Risiko, link Rezension: Stuart Kirsch: Mining Capitalism. The Relationship between Corporations and Their Critics, April 2015, 4 S., hier Rezension: Nick Schwarz (ed.): The Politics of Give and Take. The 2012 Papua New Guinea National Election. Anthropos, 2014, link   Fact Sheet im Rahmen des Projektes "Rohstoffreichtum in Asien: Hemmnis oder Chance für nachhaltige Entwicklung?" der Stiftung Asienhaus, Köln 4.3.2015: link, Print: link   Review: Thomas Webster and Linda Duncan (eds.): Papua New Guinea´s Development Performance 1975 - 2008. CATALYST, 2014, available here Review: Peter Larmour: Interpreting Corruption. Culture and Politics in the Pacific Islands. Anthropos, 109.2014.1 44. Pacific Islands Forum summit, Majuro, Marshall Islands, Photo: Pacific.Scoop Sept. 5, 2013 "Der Drache im »Hinterhof«: Umbrüche und Konflikte im Südpazifik". Wissenschaft und Frieden, Nr. 4, November 2013. Rezension: Kathy Marks: Lost Paradise. From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed. Rundbrief, Nr. 91, März 2013. Rezension: Anthony Regan: Light Intervention. Lessons from Bougainville. Rundbrief, Nr. 87, Februar 2012. Review: Arthur Knoll & Hermann Hiery (eds.): The German Colonial Experience. Select Documents on German Rule in Africa, China, and the Pacific 1884 – 1914. Anthropos, 106.2011.2 Rezension: Franco Zocca (ed.): Sanguma in Paradise: Sorcery, Witchcraft and Christianity in Papua New Guinea. PAIDEUMA, 2010, hier Porgera Gold Mine 2007 Photo: Richard Farbelini, Wikipedia Commons „Schmutziges Gold. In den Bergwerken von Papua-Neuguinea bleiben die Menschenrechte auf der Strecke“. Welt-sichten, Nr. 5, Mai 2010.         „Bulletin“ der Deutsch-Pazifischen Gesellschaft e.V., München, Nr. G-220, März 2010. Rezension: Evangelische Kirche im Rheinland (Hrsg.): Wirtschaftliche, soziale und kulturelle Rechte in West-Papua. Soziale Realität und politische Perspektiven. Jahrbuch für Europäische Überseegeschichte, 2009, hier           Peace Research Institute Frankfurt published in 2009, 38 pages, link die deutsche Version, link         veröffentlicht in 2009 Verlagsinformationen hier Zusammenfassung: "Staats- und  Ver- waltungsreform in Räumen begrenzter Staatlichkeit: der Fall Papua-Neuguinea”. Nov. 2008, 33 Seiten, verfügbar hier Summary: "State-Building and Public  Sector Reform in Fragile States: the Case of Papua New Guinea", 2012, 19 pages, here "Kriminalität in Papua-Neuguinea. Eine Annäherung an gesellschaftliche Verhältnisse". journal-ethnologie.de  Nr. 6/2007 link "Plundering the Nation´s Wealth? Mining and Development in Papua New Guinea" July 2005, 22 pages, here     Melanesian Institute, Goroka 2000 Book cover: Parliament of Papua New Guinea Institut für Asienkunde, Hamburg 1994 summary here Deutsches Übersee-Institut, Hamburg 1990 Book cover: Carved wooden mask of a mythical ancestor with a pig between the teeth of the northeast coast of New Guinea; possession of the Hamburg Museum für Völkerkunde.