The aim of the Moro Movement of Isatabu, in the Solomon Islands, has been described as “Sai lima horohoro tuali” – “Putting lands together in living as before”. A movement for social economic and political improvement using co-operatives economic enterprises in combination with a regard for custom and tradition in order to synthesise a new social order.
As the Marau-Hauba Council on Guadalcanal, became destabilised in 1956, while a ‘back to custom’ movement was gaining strength, centred in the south east coastal areas and on the villages in the Suta area – on the northern side of the interior mountains. At Makaruka and Veuru Moli, Pelise Moro started to mobilise people around stories of original creation and a return to the use of name Isatabu instead of Guadalcanal. However as the movement rose, the Marau-Hauba council was replaced by the Guadalcanal Council.
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