Pacific Media Centre articles are republished with permission. PNG's Prime Minister James Marape issued a statement congratulating Mr Toroama and said he would meet with him in coming weeks. “‘Ever hit any?’ I ask. My government intends to encourage good public debate on key policy matters, both in parliament as well as in the community, through the various foras that exist today. She will also face the issue of whether to reopen the troubled mine, as Bougainville tries to become financially independent. My government will need your continued support and patience, as we walk the journey of securing Bougainville sovereignty. As journalist Dominic Rotheroe wrote in an article in The Independent (The Green Guerrillas, 13 September 1998) Toroama is nothing if not a very strong and intimidating man: “Ten minutes further into this training patrol, a mock ambush is launched and Ishmael Toroama hurtles into the bush, M-16 blazing, while his soldiers blast the jungle with a mix of captured M-l6s, rejuvenated Second World World War guns, and home-made rifles. The crisis liberated the thinking of Bougainvilleans. They are corporate thugs that were stopped thanks to the victory of the BRA. Mr Speaker, it is time we change the shanty-town business image our main towns. Keith Jackson is a retired educator, school publications editor and communications lecturer and consultant in Papua New Guinea who has managed radio stations in Rabaul and Bougainville and was head of policy and planning in the National Broadcasting Commission at independence in 1975. It is only through our own “intellectual control”, that we can chart our own pathway and create our own identity, and a place in the global society – the Asian Countries have proven this in no uncertain terms. The sentiments expressed by National Minister for Bougainville Affairs, Sir Puka Temu, in his recent parliamentary statement, asking PNG Parliamentarians to educate themselves about the history, the culture, the sufferings and the aspirations of Bougainvilleans is the right grounds on which to walk together the journey and set us free. Here's how one social enterprise helped bridge the gap. Theonila Roka Matbob has been appointed as Minister for Education, and Yolande Geraldine Paul has been appointed as Minister for Primary Industries and Marine Resources. Mr Speaker, much needs to be done, but we must set our house in order before we can embark on these strategies. My government will look at ways of communicating better with our people. They, Rio Tinto and BCL have been exposed.

A freedom fighter of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) who stopped Rio Tinto and its subsidiary Bougainville Copper Ltd (BCL) by blowing up the electric pylons at the Panguna mine in 1988. We must maintain peace and unity at all times. This role, Starygin says, “went beyond the use of his celebrity to bring disputants together and grew to include event management by Toroama’s gang and those businesses in which Toroama ‘had an interest’ which, in turn, became the main conduits for AusAid and UNDP’s reconciliation dollars.”. "For me as a spiritual being I cannot risk the lives of the future generation for economic benefits," Ms Matbob said. Sadly, the PNG government, Rio Tinto and BCL retaliated by sending in the PNG Defence Forces, supported by Australia and Australian tax-payer dollars. (Optional) Enter your postcode for local activist event updates.

googletag.pubads().definePassback('/9201682/APAC_Standard_Sidebar2', [[300, 250], [300, 600]]).display(); Duty editor of the Asia Pacific Report/Evening Report collaboration or the Pacific Media Centre at the Auckland University of Technology. Toroama outlined the following six-point strategy in his inauguration speech: 1. Your roles are already prescribed by custom and by church doctrines. The activist, social worker and mother was voted in to represent the Ioro constituency, which includes the Panguna Mine, the site where fighting first started. Political control of our destiny; Control over the population and territory is another precondition as already stated under law and order. Mr Speaker, I am humbled and honored to be speaking to you, as your new President for the next five years. Mr Speaker and Members of this Parliament, what is my key agenda as your new President?

Plans to reopen the long-shuttered mine, which could help fund an independent Bougainville, have stalled due to competing claims over development rights. To this extent, Bougainville must establish, a high powered Planning Secretariat that will help us dream big into the future, innovate and reach new heights.

Ishmael Toroama – fighter, rebel leader, peace broker, scrap metal dealer, security boss and coca farmer – now seems likely to be fifth president of Bougainville. Any violations committed thereafter are law and order issues. PNG has recently slashed its budget by K2 billion. My people of Bougainville, you have endured this far and your continued patience is all I ask for of you. Peace agreement

Congratulations to the new president, his government and the people of Bougainville. "I would like to see the national Government ratifying the 98 per cent, that is the first step that I would like to see," he said. The conflict was largely fought over how the profits from the lucrative Panguna gold and copper mine on Bougainville should be shared and the environmental damage it had caused. Our dream of being masters of our destiny, will amount to nothing if we cannot behave in civil ways. [4][5][6], Flag of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, List of Presidents of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, President of the secessionist Republic of North Solomons (1975), Bougainville Constituent Assembly Co-chairmen (1999), Vice-President of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, "8.

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Mr Speaker, under my government, we will have specific targeted plan for growing our economy. Let there be no doubt, about the legality and validity of the Referendum and the results, as the Referendum is captured in the Organic Law on Peacebuilding in Bougainville and Referendum, and inserted into the PNG Constitution. ‘Oh yes.’ ‘How many?’ ‘Twelve.’ ‘Twelve! It is also an interesting Parliament, because three pairs of family relations have made it into the house – a husband and wife; a father and daughter; and a mother and son. Bougainville Elects Ishmael Toroama President, Eyes Set on Independence An autonomous region in Papua New Guinea, Bougainville is aiming for independence and elected a president … The above three campaign agendas will be part of a much bigger vision, which the people of Bougainville expressed in the form of the Bougainville Crisis 31 years ago.

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