Development Overshadowed by Sorcery
by CASPER DAMIEN The reawakening of the ancient belief in and practice of sorcery and witchcraft is one of the post-independent development issues. Although sorcery has been recently (2014) outlawed in Parliament, it has not been effective and the information of the repelling of the sorcery act has not been really disseminated and descended to the bulk of the population in the rural areas. Sorcery now becomes a very frightening thing in our community and individual life. Almost everyone relate misfortunes and deaths to sorcery and there is now a tendency to points fingers at someone or accuse others for sorcery. This trend is currently bad in PNG and it can also hinder development and progress in general. Development as we have seen so far refers not only to the economic or material progress of our people but also the spiritual, cultural, social and political aspects. Papua New Guinea is one of the unique countries in the world that has some of the best development