ABSTRACT
The Paliau Movement organises a substantial number of people in Manus, and different sources give quite disparate figures about its size and relative importance. Its own leaders claim that it organises 15,000 or 20,000 people, while its adversaries state that it organises only a few hundred and at most between 1,000 and 1,500 members. The truth is probably somewhere in between, and depends on how ‘organising’ people is defined—’organisation’ being a very Western concept.
