ich habe ein bisschen gestöbert und hier mal aus den letzten Jahren ein paar wenige Aussagen und Fakten über und von John Momis zusammengetragen:
14.08.2008:
ONE of the founding fathers of the PNG Constitution, John Momis, warned yesterday that the concerns of the people of Bougainville must be addressed before the Government could consider reopening the Bougainville copper mine.
Mr Momis, PNG’s ambassador to China, made the remarks as one of the key-speakers at the 2008 UPNG Waigani Seminar which started at the University of PNG’s main lecture theatre yesterday.
He said the Bougainville crisis of the late 1980s and 1990s was inevitable as successive Governments refused to listen to the pleas and grievances of the landowners and people of Bougainville.
“I warned the Government many times that the Bougainville copper agreement had to be reviewed and that unless they took note of the grievances of the Bougainville people, there would be a bloody war,” Mr Momis said.
But at that time the Government was more concerned about power and was not prepared to listen, he added.
Mr Momis returned to PNG from Beijing, China, this week despite the staging of the Olympic Games there.
He came to share his thoughts at the Waigani Seminar on how he and the Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare had guided and chartered the way forward for democracy to make the Autonomous Bougainville Government now a reality.
Mr Momis was one of the prominent Papua New Guineans invited to address the seminar.
He said Bougainvilleans had felt alienated and devoid of power since the development of Bougainville copper mine on the island.
“They elected me as their MP with a mission in my lifetime to ensure that they are empowered and become part of the political and development process.”
Mr Momis said no Government had the right to deprive its people of participation in the decision-making processes.
He said when people felt alienated with no power, they would rebel.
“Our people must participate in the decision- making processes and development of their resources and they must not be just passive observers,” Mr Momis said.
18.05.2007
The Father of the Decentralization Principle is John Momis, long time Regional Member for Bougainville since 1972 who only resigned his seat just recently to contest the Bougainville government elections.
29.09.2005
Momis finally accepts chiefly title: ONE of Papua New Guinea’s founding fathers John Momis has finally accepted the chiefly title of being a Grand Order of Logohu.
Mr Momis has refused knighthood three times since 1975 because he believed it was not a truly Papua New Guinean system of honouring people in recognition of outstanding contribution and services.
If he accepted the knighthood then, Mr Momis would have been the second Papua New Guinean knight after fellow Bougainvillean Sir Paul Lapun.
The knighthood offers were made for recognition of his outstanding contribution to Constitutional development and decentralisation.
“I’ve now accepted the recognition of grand order of Logohu because it is our own”, Mr Momis told The National yesterday.
Princess Royal will present the Logohu medals at the Government House at Konedobu today.
Governor-General Sir Paulias Matane and Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare are recipients of the highest order of Logohu.
They are followed by Mr Momis, former Prime Minister Sir Julius Chan, former MP Dame Josephine Abaijah and retired Anglican Bishop Sir David Hand with the grand order of Logohu.
Sir Julius is out of Port Moresby on engagement and will not receive the award.
01.08.2005
B’ville by-election to start on Oct 20: A BY-ELECTION for the Bougainville Provincial seat will be held next year, the Electoral Commission has announced.
The seat became vacant when John Momis, who held it for 32 years, left to contest the presidency of the Autonomous Bougainville Government.
20.07.2005
Joseph Kabui, the leader of the Bougainville Peoples Congress Party (BPCP) was elected with an outright majority and convincing lead of almost 15,000 over his nearest rival John Momis (37,928 to 22,970 votes). The other three candidates were far behind, the most successful of them receiving only 2710 votes.
Mr Momis had resigned as a regional MP for Bougainville in the PNG Parliament just weeks before the Bougainville election writs were issued, and formed his Bougainville First Party, believing that the electorate was on his side. He had been the Bougainville MP in the PNG parliament for 33 years. (The BPCP was formed in response to Momis's formation of the Bougainville First party.)
Whereas Mr Kabui had only stood for one provincial government election in 1988 which he won from a Momis-backed candidate for the premiership of the then "North Solomons Province". While a "rookie" in elections, he was close to his people, having played a leading role in the war and negotiations that followed, never letting up in his pursuit of an independent Bougainville.
As Momis was lagging behind and never managing to catch up to Kabui, serious allegations began to be raised from his camp that there was "vote rigging" going on in Central Bougainville, where Kabui comes from.
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Na ja, das hört sich ja alles dann doch nicht wirklich schlimm an. Aber Monis ist sicherlich ein Vertreter der alten Zeit. Momis ist ein Bewahrer, aber eben kein Erneuerer. Dem Eindruck nach vermeidet er auch konsequent, Positionen zu den zwei Themen „promining mit BCL“ zu beziehen. Er will Frieden und Unabhängigkeit für Bougainville, hat aber keine eigenen Visionen, wie beide Ziele nachhaltig zu sichern sind. Und das Thema „soziale Weiterentwicklung durch wirtschaftliche Weiterentwicklung“ ist ihm vollkommen fremd, das kennt er gar nicht. Momis ist eben ein Diplomat, der seit Jahrzehnten ein gutes PNG-Gehalt kassiert; ein Politiker mit den besten Absichten, aber eben ohne eigene Handschrift, ohne eigenes Gesicht. Er hat leider nicht den Mut eines Tanis und nicht die Entschlossenheit eines Kabui.
Interessant ist aber, dass das Volk von Bougainville sich eben für diesen Volksvertreter so sehr erwärmt. Die neue Zeit, also die kommende Unabhängigkeit, erzeugt eben auch Unsicherheiten. Und in unsicheren Zeiten entscheiden sich viele Menschen für das etablierte und funktionierende System, auch wenn genau diese Angst die eigene Unabhängigkeit einschränkt. Und genau dieses Phänomen könnte die Öffnung der Panguna-Mine noch auf viele Jahre weiter hinauszögern, mit Momis an der System-Spitze.
Eine andere Sache ist, John Momis ist 1942 geboren. Für einen Bougainviller ist er also mit seinen nun 68 Lebensjahren in jedem Fall ein Mann, der für den Südpazifischen Raum eher als sehr alter Mann gilt und von daher von ihm gar nicht mehr mit langfristigen und zukunftsweisenden Entscheidungen zu rechnen sein kann. Er verkörpert die Vergangenheit und ein wenig die Gegenwart. Aber er verkörpert auf keinen Fall die Zukunft von Bougainville, so wie das der auf dieser Metall-Insel geborene Hon James Tanis von jeher tut. Momis ist Mitglied der Partei “Melanesian Alliance”, die auf Bougainville ihre Basis hat, pro-autonomy orientiert ist und als Mitte Links gilt.
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