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It's these "tactics of delay" that often "wear down campaigners", says one activist, Kanak Mani Dixit.

American table tennis player Kanak Jha solicited more than $30,000 to help cover the costs of training, travel, accommodation, and his hiring of a private coach.

The authorities continue to enforce a nightly curfew and a ban on alcohol sales, while Indigenous Kanak protesters maintain barricades on Noumea’s outskirts and in remote towns like Hienghene.

“We closed their door and keep them there and make them see what it’s like when a Kanak boy is kept in their jail in Noumea,” Jonas Tein, a protester in Hienghene, said about the town’s police station, which appears to have been resupplied through regular visits by police helicopters.

Kanak leaders and some moderate French loyalists have since urged him to withdraw it entirely.