The Renaissance of the Melanesian Spearhead Group

Cain, Tess Newton

doi:10.22459/npd.12.2015.13

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“…Untuk polugri Indonesia di kawasan Pasifik Selatan penelitian sudah dikaji oleh Wanggai (2014), Elmslie (2015), Rusdi (2021), Afif (2020), Lawson (2021). Penelitian mengenai regional Pasifik Selatan dan Organisasi MSG ditulis oleh Cain (2015), Somare (2015), Stanley (2020), Heningham dan desmon Ball (1991), Webb dan Emslie (2014).…”

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External setting di kawasan Pasifik Selatan sebagai tantangan politik luar negeri Indonesia era pemerintahan Joko Widodo (2014-2023)

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2024

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The South Pacific region is an area that neighbors and directly borders Indonesia via Papua New Guinea. Members from the South Pacific are Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji and Kanak which represents New Caledonia. Geopolitically, this area is very important for Indonesia because it is a neighbor and has a direct border. Especially in 2015 the regional organization Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) accepted the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), which is part of the Free Papua Organization, to become an observer member of the MSG. This research aims to examine challenges Indonesia's foreign policy in the South Pacific region during the President Joko Widodo (2014-2022). Qualitative research and descriptive Analysis methods that researchers use for this research use the concept of external situations and conditions (external settings) in the study of foreign policy. The results of this research are the first and main challenge, namely the development of the Papua issue in MSG and there is support from Vanuatu, inconsistent support from PNG and the Solomon Islands. Secondly, the Papua issue is also discussed at the civil society level such as Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), journalists, churc council, activists and students. Thirdly, The South Pacific region is not dependent on Indonesia because economic relations and cooperation between Indonesia and the South Pacific region are very small

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External setting di kawasan Pasifik Selatan sebagai tantangan politik luar negeri Indonesia era pemerintahan Joko Widodo (2014-2023)

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2024

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“…Over the decades Indigenous-led movements in New Caledonia and West Papua kept independence hopes alive, and by 2010 a renewed Pacific Island indigènitude and a re-inspired Pacific négritude had become almost indistinguishable. This new wave of counter-colonial sentiment, or Pacific renaissance (Dateline Pacific 2016;Mackley-Crump 2015;Newton-Cain 2016) has raised the issue of decolonisation, in West Papua at least, to top priority status among key Pacific Island political and non-governmental organisations. The momentum driving this most recent surge in identity politics in the Pacific derives, we believe, from a new sense of Melanesian grassroots empowerment enabled by digital networking, reengagement with the symbolism of the post-war Black Power movement and the strategic deployment of the "symbolic repertoire" of indigènitude ("'the sacred', 'Mother Earth', 'shamanism', sovereignty', the wisdom of 'elders', stewardship of 'the land'" [Clifford 2013: 16]).…”

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The “Black Pacific” and decolonisation in Melanesia: Performing négritude and indigènitude

Webb-Gannon

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Solis

2018

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In the 19th century Melanesians were pejoratively labelled black by European maritime explorers (mela = black; nesia = islands). 1 Emerging scholarship on the Black Pacific (Shilliam 2015; Solis 2015a Solis , 2015b; Swan [as interviewed by Blain 2016]), a parallel to Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic (1993), focuses on historical and contemporary identifications and articulations ("affinities, affiliations and collaborations" [Solis 2015b: 358]) between Oceanian and African diasporic peoples, cultures and politics based upon shared Otherness to colonial occupiers. 2 The essay that follows contributes to this work by presenting a perspective from Melanesia. It attempts to demonstrate that over time, encounters with Atlantic-based notions of Black Power and négritude, that is, the identity politics associated with Black consciousness, as well as global discourses of Indigenousness, contributed to the production of popular forms of counter-colonial expression, one of the most significantalthough underexplored-of which is music. Encounters with such ideas and expressions occurred person-to-person, sometimes through an intermediary, and also through various kinds of text, often in the form of recorded music, for example. The impact of each type and specific instance is of course unique, and context dependent."Come Independence Come", by the late New Ireland singer-songwriter Phillip Lamasisi Yayii, is probably Papua New Guinea's (PNG) earliest decolonisation song, and was released commercially in 1975, the year in which PNG became independent. Lyrically, the song asks: Can't you leave us alone? Why must you pester us?We have our values that we all are proud of So pack yourself and leave us alone. (Webb 1993: 44-45) Besides expressing a strong desire to shake free of European colonial influence, the lyrics mention pride in local "values". Yayii appears to have

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