Dr. Hashim's JofHappiness: April 2014

I departed on Tuesday March 25 by the Emirate Airlines (EK 408) at 13.30 hrs from KLIA to Melbourne, covering a distance of 6800 km in seven-and-half hours. After a six-hour transit stop at the Melbourne International Airport, proceeded to Auckland, a further distance of 2600 km in a flying time of 3.15 hours arriving at the International Airport at the scheduled time of 13.45 hrs on Wednesday March 26. This was my third trip to this 'City of Sails', having been here in September 2011 and October 2012. The delegates to the Conference from overseas were accommodated at the Copthorne Harbourside in Auckland for one night before being transported by bus to Whangarei and then Paihia, in the heartland of Maoridom, on March 27. It was a picturesque 5 hour drive to Paihia from Auckland passing through green rolling hill pasture lands with grazing cattle, neatly kept residences in the small townships that we passed through. We were warmly received by the Maori community at the Waitangi Copthorne Hotel, which was the venue of the Conference and the accommodation of the delegates.

Copthorne Harbourside Hotel in Auckland

Map showing Paihia and Bay of Islands, in the heart

of Maoridom where the Conference was held

Auckland, the City of Sails and the biggest city in Aoteoroa
(New Zealand) with a population of 1. 4 millions

     The Conference was officially opened by the Hon. Dr Pita Sharples, the Minister of Maori Affairs.
The Conference papers were presented either at plenary or group sessions. The plenary addresses include the following:

                    1. Historical roots, origins and supra-national consciousness of the
                        Malay-Polynesian peoples by Prof. Dato' Dr Wan Hashim Wan The
                       which provides our own perspective of history.

                    2. Enrique the Black: First Malay-Sailor- Navigator to sail around the
                        World by Prof. Emerritus Dato' Dr. Nik Hassan Shuhaimi Nik Abd
                        Rahman, who discussed the sea-faring prowess of the Malay-Poly-
                        nesian peoples who sailed and guided by the stars, the winds, the ocean
                        currents, flights of birds to discover new lands in the Pacific
                        and Indian Oceans and the far lands of the Americas

                    3. The proposed establishment of the Nusa-Polynesia International
                        University by Col. Prof. Dato' Dr. Kamaruddin bin Kachar. The
                        proposal is to establish the University at a suitable location in North
                        Island, New Zealand to be managed as a private enterprise with
                        interested stakeholders to contribute towards the institutions with
                        funds invested in hotels, housing, shopping malls to generate revenue
                        to finance the administration of the University. The inaugural faculties
                        are Malay-Polynesian Studies, Oceanography and Marine Sciences,
                        Tourism and Hospitality, Art and Music.

   Among the papers presented at the group sessions include two papers on social business, one paper on halal standard and certification, two papers on traditional medicines, one on organic farming, one paper each on Malay Art forms: wood carving and textiles, Terengganu People: Boats and Navigation.
       The Resolutions of the Conference, appropriately called the Waitangi Declaration as it was adopted at the Waitangi Copthorne Hotel Resort, located a few hundred meters from the ground where the Waitangi Treaty was signed in 1841, are as follows:

THE WAITANGI DECLARATION

THE WORLD MELAYU-POLYNESIAN ORGANISATION

and

THE MAORI-MELAYU POLYNESIAN SOCIETY INCORPORATED

formulated

AT THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE MELAYU-ANCESTRAL NATIONS

HELD AT THE COPTHORNE HOTEL, BAY OF ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND 28 & 29 March 2014 WITH THE THEME:

“STRENGTHENING CULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL, TRADE AND TOURISM NETWORKS AMONG THE MAORI-MELAYU-POLYNESIAN ANCESTRAL NATIONS”

THE PREAMBLE

THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IS A MOVE TO KEEP UP, STRENGTHEN AND MAINTAIN THE HIGH SPIRIT AND STRONG DESIRE OF REVIVING AND PROMOTING THE ANCESTRAL RELATIONSHIPS WHICH WERE FIRST CREATED AND FOSTERED BY OUR GREAT-GREAT ANCESTERS MORE THAN 40,000 YEARS AGO. WE ARE DETERMINED TO BE AS UNITED, POWERFUL, SKILFULL, CLEVER, ADVENTURERS, BRAVE AND FORWARD LOOKING AS OUR GREAT-GREAT MELAYU-POLYNESIAN ANCESTERS.

THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MELAYU-POLYNESIAN ANCESTRAL NATIONS WAS HELD ON THE 5TH & 6T OF JULY 2012 AT THE KLANA RESORT, SEREMBAN NEGERI SEMBILAN, MALAYSIA AND THE THEME WAS “REESTABLISHING AND REVITALIZING MELAYU-POLYNESIAN CULTURAL COMMON GROUNDS AND GLOBAL RELATIONSHIPS” .

WE ARE ALL VERY AMBITIOUS AS WE BELONG TO THE SAME BLOOD RELATED GROUPS OF THE MAORI- MELAYU- POLYNESIAN ORIGINAL STOCK AND THAT FOR A BETTER AND A MORE PROGRESSIVE FUTURE WE HAVE FORMULATED ONE MAIN OBJECTIVE THAT IS TO REESTABLISH AND REVITALIZE OUR MAORI- MELAYU-POLYNESIAN CULTURAL COMMON GROUNDS AND GLOBAL RELATIONSHIPS THUS WE COOPERATE AND WORK TOGETHER CLOSELY; WE LEARN AND SHARE KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE AMONGST OUR MILLIONS OF COUSINS OF THE SAME ANCESTORAL FAMILY GROUPS NOW RESIDING IN MORE THAN 33 MELAYU-POLYNESIAN ANCESTRAL NATIONS SPREADING AROUND THE VERY VAST REGIONS OF THE PACIFIC AND THE INDIAN OCEANS.

WE ARE ALSO DETERMINED TO BE STRONG AND INFLUENTIAL ECONOMICALLY, EDUCATIONALLY AND CULTURALLY IN THE YEARS TO COME.

AS A BIG MOVE TO IMPLEMENT THE RESOLUTIONS OF THE FIRST INTERATIONAL CONFERENCE AND THE WAITANGI DECLARATION OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WE HAVE ALREADY ESTABLISHED THE WORLD MELAYU-POLYNESIAN ORGANIZATION ( WMPO ) IN KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA AND HAVE FORMULATED AND REGISTERED THE MAORI-MELAYU POLYNESIAN SOCIETY INCORPORATED (MMPS) IN AUCKLAND,NEW ZEALAND.

WE URGE ALL OUR COUSINS OF OTHER MELAYU-POLYNESIAN ANCESTRAL NATIONS TO ESTABLISH THEIR OWN NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND BE ACTIVELY AFFILIATED TO THE WMPO AND MMPS

THE WAITANGI DECLARATION

ON RECOGNIZING THE NEEDS TO “STRENGTHEN CULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL, TRADE AND TOURISM NETWORKS AMONG THE MAORI MELAYU POLYNESIAN ANCESTRAL NATIONS” THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE THEN RESOLVED THE FOLLOWING DECLARATIONS:

• TO ESTABLISH MAORI NUSA POLYNESIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY (MPIU) IN AUCKLAND AND BRANCH CAMPUSES INCLUDING A FLOATING UNIVERSITY BRANCH WHICH IS TO BE REGARDED AS A CONTINENT TO UNITE THE MANY ISLANDS OF OUR ANCESTRAL NATIONS.THE CAMPUS IS ON A 320 ACRE SITE OF THE FORMER ST STEPHENS COLLEGE AT BOMBAY, AUCKLAND.

• TO ESTABLISH STRONGER AFFILIATIONS, AND TO CONDUCT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN PERPETUATING CULTURAL VALUES IN ALL THE 33 ANCESTRAL NATIONS.

• TO ENCOURAGE ANCESTRAL NATIONS TO IDENTIFY, EXPLORE AND CONSERVE TERRESTRIAL AND MARINE BIODIVERSITY AND NATURAL SOURCES AND TO PROTECT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES PARTICULARLY ON FAUNA AND FLORA AMONG MORE THAN 33 ANCESTRAL NATIONS.

• TO PROMOTE ALTERNATIVE TRADITIONAL MEDICINES AMONG MORE THAN 33 ANCESTRAL NATIONS.

• TO ENCOURAGE ESTABLISHMENT OF MAORI MELAYU-POLYNESIAN CULTURAL THEME PARKS IN THE RESPECTIVE ANCESTRAL NATIONS.

• TO ESTABLISH A MAORI-MELAYU-POLYNESIAN GALLERY IN THE NATIONAL MUZIUM OF MALAYSIA AT KUALA LUMPUR.

• TO FORM THE MELAYU MAORI POLYNESIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO PLAN AND IMPLEMENT TRADE AND BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS IN SPECIFIC AREAS.

• TO ESTABLISH MELAYU MAORI POLYNESIAN COOPERATIVE SOCIETY.

• TO PROMOTE SOCIAL AND HALAL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS AMONG THE ANCESTRAL NATIONS.

• TO INCULCATE INDIGENEOUS SOCIO-CULTURAL VALUES IN

PROMOTING PEACE AND HARMONY THROUGH THE WORLD

ESPECIALLY AMONG MORE THAN 33 ANCESTRAL NATIONS.

• TO URGE MAORI MELAYU POLYNESIAN ANCESTRAL NATIONS TO

REEXAMINE THE HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF OUR ANCESTRAL

NATIONS AND TO REWRITE HISTORY BOOKS USING THE RIGHT

HISTORICAL FACTS IN THE LIGHT OF NEW INFORMATION

EMERGING FROM DNA AND ARCHEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE AND

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH STUDIES.

     12. TO CONDUCT RESEARCH AND PROMOTE TRADITIONAL MUSIC,TRADITIONAL
           ARTS AND CRAFTS AND TRADITIONAL CULTURA VALUES OF THE 33 ANCESTRAL NATIONS.

     13. TO ESTABLISH A MAORI MELAYU POLYNIESIAN UNIVERSIT VILLAGE ADJACENT TO THE   PROPOSED ESTABLISHMENT OF MAOR NUSA POLYNESIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ON THE 320 ACRE SITE AT BOMBAY, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND.

The Hon Dr. Pita Sharples, the Minister of Maori
Affairs, officiating the Conference

The Conference poster and the Master of Ceremony at the

Opening Ceremony

Delegated participating at the Conference

Reading the paper on Social Business on behalf of

Dato' Ghazali Dato' Yusoff

One of the papers presented 'Kupe - The

Polynesian Explorer'

A special Maori Indigenous Elders' Forum

Panel discussion to formulate the Waitangi Declaration

The modelling of Malaysian batik at the Conference Dinner

The post-conference tour was a cruise to pass through the many islands in the Bay of Islands. The main attractions on the cruise was viewing dolphins, sea-gulls, going through the famous Hole in the Rock, stop-over on one of the islands.