Tagata o te Moana. 2011-05-14. 17:30-18:00.

News from the Pacific presented by Johnny Blades, Radio New Zealand International. In this weeks programme:

A Court of Appeal ruling restores Sato Kilman as Vanuatu's Prime Minister; There're calls for the Indonesian government to do more to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS in the provinces of Papua and West Papua; An Australian report finds the country's policy towards Fiji has failed to promote democracy; Local leaders on the Vanuatu island of Espiritu Santo are worried about a sixty percent unemployment rate among the young people of Luganville, the main town on the island; Illegal logging remains a big problem in the Melanesia region which is home to some of the world's largest remaining tracts of untouched rainforest; France's youngest senator, Richard Tuheiava, is lobbying the region to support French Polynesia's bid to be re-inscribed on the UN list of territories to be decolonised; Churches in Samoa are being encouraged to do more to combat growing violence in the community after a series of killings, including one of a lay preacher; and The secretary general of the Pacific Islands Forum, Tuiloma Neroni Slade, says recent criticism of the organisation is unjustified, and as a regional body it is continuing rack up achievements.