Dateline Pacific for 8 October 2019

Jihadis are being encouraged to go and fight in West Papua by Indonesian Muslim hardliners; Polynesian countries have welcomed New Zealand's help to improve access to essential medicines; the new prime minister of Tonga has laid out some of his plans to try and turn the country's economy around, and; a Papua New Guinea NGO says opportunities for people must be created in order to counter the country's nagging crime rate.