State and society in Papua New Guinea: the first twenty-five years

Table of Contents

Preliminary text

1. Introduction: Papua New Guinea at Twenty-Five

Political institutions

2. Port Moresby and the Bush: Papua New Guinea’s first post-independence decade

Party politics
The economy
Provincial government
Law and order
The border
The future

3. Political Style in Modern Melanesia

The scale of politics and the politics of scale
Diversity and (a little bit) beyond
Bigmen and all that
The colonial experience
Politics, economics and bisnis

4. Micronationalism in Papua New Guinea

The emergence of micronationalism
Marginal cargo cults
Local protest movements
Self-help development movements
Regional separatist movements
Micronationalism and government policy
An anatomy of micronationalism
Conclusion

5. The Political Education Programme

Objectives of the programme
Organisation and implementation
Materials
Assessment

6. Class, Ethnicity, Regionalism and Political Parties

The development of parties
Is the development of a party system inevitable?
Bases for a party System
Conclusion

7. Decentralisation: Constitutional Form and Political Reality

The concept
The reality
Conclusion

8. Decentralisation: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Introduction
Early devolution: local government councils
The provincial government system, 1976-1995
‘Reform’ of the provincial government system, 1995–

9. (Re?)Discovering Chiefs: Traditional Authority and the Restructuring of Local Level Government in Papua New Guinea

Bigmen and chiefs in pre-colonial society
Chiefs in East Sepik
Chiefs in the North Solomons (Bougainville)
Chiefs in the political system
Conclusion

10. The PNGDF in Troubled Times

The PNGDF – a colonial legacy
External defence and internal security
Military-civil relations
The Sandline Affair
The aftermath of Sandline – increased politicisation?

11. The Military Factor in the Events of March 1997

12. Challenging the State

Consolidating the independent state
Security issues for the 1990s
Law and order
Administration and the economy
The Bougainville rebellion
The role of the PNGDF
Overview

13. The Bougainville Crisis

The basis of landowner demands
The move from protest to insurgency
The issue of secession
The significance of recent developments on Bougainville

14. ‘Mutual Respect, Friendship and Cooperation’? The Papua New Guinea-Indonesia Border and its Effect on Relations Between Papua New Guinea and Indonesia

The border
Border problems
Relations between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
Conclusion

15. From Promise to Crisis: a Political Economy of Papua New Guinea

16. State, Society and Governance: A Philippines–Papua New Guinea Comparison

Comparing the Philippines and Papua New Guinea
The state
Society in the Philippines and Papua New Guinea
State, society and governance
Reforming the state
Afterword

17. Nugget, Pike, et al.: The Role of the Reserve Bank of Australia in Papua New Guinea’s Decolonisation

In the beginning
The Reserve Bank in Papua New Guinea
The savings and loan movement
Staff development
The issue of separate currency
The Reserve Bank and decolonisation

18. Nationalism and Papua New Guinea Writing