Cultural Ideologies Influencing Papua New Guinea’s Political System
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.59890/ijsss.v2i6.298Keywords:
Papua New Guinea, Political System, Culture, IdeologyAbstract
In Papua New Guinea (PNG), unofficial ideologies have a significant effect on individuals' core beliefs. The traditional beliefs of bigmanism, kaikaimanism, wantokism, and other associated beliefs in PNG have an impact on these well-informed ideas. This articles aims to analyse and examine the ramifications of PNG's absence of a clear political ideology. This will provide a more detailed explanation of how the absence of political ideas in PNG allowed for the emergence of cultural ideologies such as the wantok system, kaikai man, big man culture, regionalism, nepotism, tribalism, and cola moni as a form of governance, thereby replacing the requirement for traditional political ideologies. These ideas are partially undermining the political system in PNG. The main contribution of this research is to raise awareness of the impact that cultural ideology in PNG has on the country. This perspective is crucial for comprehending the principles and beliefs of PNG. The research proposes that although PNG may appear to be impartial with regard to ideology, it is in fact profoundly influenced by a variety of formal and informal beliefs
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