Note: raotonga

Kelas MBP AUS week 4

Contemporary issues in South East Pacific

Isu Climate Change adalah isu tradisional pasifik selatan

Issues across region:

1. Environtmen: clean water, global warming, deforestation

2. Health: Obesity, heart attack, malnutrition, Diabetes, HIV/AIDS
3. Education: low literacy rates, low school enrolment
4. Poverty: Lack of resources/industry, lack of job opportunities
5. Endangered plants/animals: overfishing, loss of biodiversity
6. High unemployment rates and youth problems (law and order yang tidak bisa ditegakkan:
banyak anak muda tidak sekolah sehingga banyak kriminalitas muncul)
7. Natural disasters: cyclones, earthquackes, tsunamis, volcanoes, drought, bushfires.
8. Domestic violence: banyak domestic violence: konsumsi alcohol yang berlebihan
(intoxicated): gender equality rendah jadi sering terjadi kekerasan terhadap perempuan
(perempuan di perlakukan seperti barang)
9. Kriminalitas
10. Racial issues
11. Corruption
12. Governance
13. Population growth
14. Urbanization: terjadi food crisis: karena tidka ada anak muda yang bisa melakukan kerja
tani dan ladang
15. Immigration
16. Gender relations
17. Decolonization

Statistik tentang issues di negara negara kepulauan pasifik (liat di ppt)

Global Challenge:

1. Global power rivalry: US vs China, Australia vs Interventionism

2. Transnational crime: money laundry, small arms, trade in person, identity fraud, human
body smuggling
3. Problem of regionalism: too many overlaps (PIF, PIDF, MSG)
4. Maritime Security
5. Aid dependency.