Culture events with 9-8 Elections & Exploitations tag

Choosing who to vote for

Edited June 28, 2022, 8:57 a.m. by Steve

On a chopper day leaders and young men from Kokoma, Torokum and Kobumbua met in the lotu to discuss who to vote for. 2 Young guys were promoting a candidate and writing names of those who intend to vote in a notebook. The discussion was focussed on who to vote for for the Josephstaal LLG, with not m...

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Election hevi wanbel

Edited Feb. 7, 2024, 10:41 a.m. by Steve

Digicel went down just before the election team arrived. They needed to receive a text from some higher up to tell them whether to continue the polling or not. With no digicel they couldn't do that, and couldn't poll. There was a lot of talk. The Kokoma community presented one of the two electoral o...

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Helicopter ballot box

Edited Feb. 7, 2024, 10:42 a.m. by Steve

We were told that a government helicopter would land in Kokoma to deliver the ballot box for the election, and that this was normal procedure. In reality it arrived somewhere else (Musupum I think) and was hiked in here. There were clear declarations that the helicopter would come Monday, then Frida...

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Interview about political parties/ our mp

Edited Feb. 7, 2024, 11:28 a.m. by Steve

1. Middle Ramu open ig memba Harwai Kamdaru. nom hobol amee (talk about our MP) 2. Harwai Kamdaru Pangu Pati yogumo igu. Pangu pati om megite mee (what is the pangu party?) 3. Harwai Kamdaru nom ab megite mee henenee? (where is our MP from?) 4. oo vote pigumuwa, nom stoli amee (talk about when you v...

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Political rally

Edited July 12, 2022, 10:12 a.m. by Steve

Nancy came from town to run as a candidate in the LLG election. Team members from other candidates (don't know if they travelled with her) and Nancy held a gathering on the football field. 4-5 candidates (or representatives) stood up and promoted their candidate in Tok Pisin. Each village leader (an...

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Voting

Edited Feb. 7, 2024, 11:11 a.m. by Steve

The day after Voting Gerdine asked Angondee to story about it....

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Voting card

Edited June 28, 2022, 9:02 a.m. by Steve

A young guy had brought laminated cards for one of the LLG candidates. Voters who vote for him are promised pieces of roofing kapa because the candidate owns a factory. Names were taken in an exercise book that will go to the candidate's team....

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