Land Bank System in the Fiji Islands

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UU204 REFLECTIVE WRITING 3 ASSESSMENT SEMESTER 2 – 2014 NAME: Losalini Sagolele Banuve ID: S11099532 NAVIGATOR: Waisale Ramoce NAME: Losalini Sagolele Banuve ID: S11099532 NAVIGATOR: Waisale Ramoce UNIT 3: REFLECTIVE WRITING ASSESSMENT TOPIC: Land Bank and QoliQoli in Fiji The Pacific is a rich exquisite realm that is encompassed with rich diverse resources in nature that can be hard to locate anywhere else in the world. These natural resources can be seen in the form of Land and Sea resources. Resources from the land and sea are the heart of everyday living and livelihood in the Pacific. Of great interest that many pacific islanders rate as of great importance is Land. Land gives the people of the pacific a sense of ownership, a sense of belonging and a place we can debatably call our own sense of home. Looking at Fiji’s context, the Itaukei people hold the land very dearly to their heart. It is like part of us, part of our blood. Recently there have been a lot of discussions and debates evolving around Itaukei land ownership, rights and the Itaukei QoliQoli and Bainimarama’s newly introduced Land Bank System. My piece of work here is a reflective writing that tries to look at how political maneuvering can change sea and land entitlements held by the indigenous Fijian people. Furthermore I will be relating these two important aspects to the Itaukei QoliQoli and the Land Bank system. What does QoliQoli and the Land Bank System mean? Looking at from my own opinion the QoliQoli in indigenous Fijian culture is a traditional protected area in the sea where marine life is kept in breeding for village consumption, commercial purposes and so forth. In Fiji, areas of coastal waters are called QoliQoli and each has historically been controlled by patrilineal clans known as mataqali. (Golden, Naisilisili , Ligairi, & Drew, 2014). It is the QoliQoli that is
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