VORWORT DES HERAUSGEBERS - Thorolf Lipp

Funktionen des gol. Versuch einer Analyse
nen Teil der versprochenen Gage erhalten. In Wali, wo Sam Kalo die Sprünge
organisiert, präsentiert sich ein ähnliches Bild. Auch Chief Willi in Salap wirtschaftet
ausschließlich in die eigene Tasche.
Selbst wenn es hier und da zu einer fairen Verteilung der Einnahmen kommen
sollte, fließen diese nicht in die Entwicklung der Dorfgemeinschaften, sondern
so gut wie ausschließlich in den privaten Konsum. Eine langfristige geplante,
sorgfältig durchgeführte Anlage der Gelder aus dem Turmspringen zum Wohl
des bonum commune, hat in Ansätzen nur im Rahmen der PonWaHa Association
stattgefunden. Da das gol zu den wichtigsten nationalen Symbolen von Vanuatu
zählt und längst zu einem Politikum geworden ist (vgl. Kap. 14), werden
diese und andere das gol betreffende Mißstände bereits seit einiger Zeit auch auf
nationaler Ebene diskutiert. Im Frühjahr des Jahres 2006 hat nun das Vanuatu
Cultural Centre verfügt, daß alle kommerziellen gol Veranstaltungen für TV-
Crews bis auf weiteres einzustellen sind, bis sichergestellt ist, daß die Einnahmen
längerfristigen und im Sinne einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung dienlichen
Projekten zugeführt werden.
Moratorium (ban) on commercial filming of Nagol (Pentecost island land dive)
This moratorium has been declared in response to growing concerns about the increasing distortion
of this traditional ceremony due to growing commercialisation. The Vanuatu Cultural
Centre, the institution mandated to regulate commercial filming of cultural subjects in Vanuatu
under section 6(2)(l) of the ‘Vanuatu National Cultural Council’ act (chapter 186 of the
Laws of the Republic of Vanuatu) has declared a moratorium or ban on all commercial filming
by foreign film companies of the Nagol or Pentecost land dive ceremony, effective from
the 1st of January 2006. This moratorium has been declared in response to growing concerns
about the increasing distortion of this traditional ceremony due to growing commercialisation
and about the lack of transparency in the distribution of fees paid by foreign film companies
to communities to film this event. This moratorium has been declared after consultation with
chiefs, community leaders and the Member of Parliament for South Pentecost. The Vanuatu
Cultural Centre is calling upon the National Tourism Development Office, the Vanuatu Tourism
Office and all relevant tour operators to work together with the Cultural Centre and the
chiefs and communities of South Pentecost to develop a proper long-term management plan
for the Nagol ceremony, to ensure that its cultural meaning is not lost, the customary knowledge
associated with it continues to be transmitted to younger generations, the bush resources
required to build the Nagol towers are preserved and the significant cash revenues earned
from tourism and other commercial activities associated with the Nagol are properly
chanelled into appropriate and sustainable development for the communities of the area. The
Cultural Centre is advocating for the establishment of a further two associations of customary
owners of the Nagol, along the lines of the Ponwaha Development Association already set up
by residents of Point Cross, Ponof, Wanur and Harop villages, in order to provide a structure
through which all the customary owners of the Nagol can be represented. It is only through
such a structure that proper management of the Nagol can begin to be implemented. Furthermore,
the existence of a distinct entity representing all custom owners of the Nagol is an essential
prerequisite for any claim for Intellectual Property Rights or Moral Rights over the
multi-million dollar “bungy jumping” industry to be successful.
(http://www.vanuatuculture.org/film-policy/20051122_pentecost_land_dive.shtml, Stand, 16.
November 2006)
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