Source Jet Newspaper-Fiji

ABG Delegation here to Study Fijian Structure

A delegation from the Autonomous Government of Bougainville is in the country to study the Fijian Government and the land lease structure of the Fijian administration.

Members of the delegation met with the Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama this morning where they presented their sevusevu requesting permission to learn how the Fijian Government has been successful in running its affairs without outside influence.

Led by the AGB Minister for Information and LLG, the visit is to study the traditional governance structures and systems of the two countries with a view to develop an informal governance system that best meets the cultures of the people of Bougainville.

The delegation also hopes to learn how Fiji has been dealing with soldiers who are returning home from peace keeping missions abroad.

In welcoming the delegation the Prime Minister thanked the Government of Bougainville for sending a team over.

Fiji's women's groups also will be under study, especially with the role they play in the development of Fiji through women's group, Non - Governmental Organisations and government departments.

"We are here also to learn from Fiji's participation in commercial business involving natural resources like coconut products and others," team leader Joseph Nope said.

"We also are looking at visiting village based eco-tourism projects and learn how they contribute to help improve the livelihood of the people and contribute to the economy."

The team is looking at meeting up with government agencies to learn about its system of land ownership and how they keep records of traditional communal land and fishing rights.­­­

"We want to explore the possibility of an exchange scheme where Bougainville can learn from Fiji to help develop its eco-tourism, cottage industries, sports and recreation and other important programs.

Comments

[wa hoe]

This is yet another waste of public funds to study traditional governance structures in Fiji when on Bougainville we have a truly rich traditional structures that needs support by ABG at the Village Authority (VA) level.http://www.vendrechaussurespascher.com/. The VAs in Siwai are working hard in comming up with traditionally appropriate mechanisms to address the weapons disposal issues and the recent Arms Summit also gave mandate to the VAs to start addressing arms at the village and clan level using traditional mechanisms and ABG must learn from these experiences and adopt them to other districts instead of wasting public funds sending people outside to come back with nothing constructive.

[sweeterdjan]

I think Bougainville already has a traditional governing system in place which is culturally relevant to our people. What the ABG Govt. needs to do is to meet with the various traditional group leaders or chiefs and get information on how they deal with issues at the village level. Some of the traditional rules may have modern machanisms incorporated into them over the years and have to be reviewed.http://www.vendreshox.com/nike-shox-r4-c-9.html While our good leaders are working on developing some kind of traditional governing system, they must not forget that the overall constitution of our land stipulates the "Sovereignty of God" over our land and Biblical principles of governance must not be overlooked. We cannot get someone else's system a

[AT]

I think Bougainville already has a traditional governing system in place which is culturally relevant to our people. What the ABG Govt. needs to do is to meet with the various traditional group leaders or chiefs and get information on how they deal with issues at the village level. Some of the traditional rules may have modern machanisms incorporated into them over the years and have to be reviewed. While our good leaders are working on developing some kind of traditional governing system, they must not forget that the overall constitution of our land stipulates the "Sovereignty of God" over our land and Biblical principles of governance must not be overlooked. We cannot get someone else's system and try to practice it within our society because it will go against some of the long held values of our traditional society and will only create more strife. "Yumi mas stadim yumi yet na save long yumi yet".

[siwaipeace]

This is yet another waste of public funds to study traditional governance structures in Fiji when on Bougainville we have a truly rich traditional structures that needs support by ABG at the Village Authority (VA) level. The VAs in Siwai are working hard in comming up with traditionally appropriate mechanisms to address the weapons disposal issues and the recent Arms Summit also gave mandate to the VAs to start addressing arms at the village and clan level using traditional mechanisms and ABG must learn from these experiences and adopt them to other districts instead of wasting public funds sending people outside to come back with nothing constructive.