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Dr. Rona Nadile (born 1951)((https://www.pngattitude.com/2013/07/the-honest-public-servant-justice-for-rona-nadile.html)) worked for the Department of Labour and Industrial Relations (DLIR) of Papua New Guinea, focused on legal frameworks for administering foreign workers. In 2009 the Westpac Women in Business Awards recognized her contributions to the public sector with the Cardno Acil Public Sector Award. ( https://www.westpac.com.au/docs/pdf/aw/Winners-Women-in-Business-2009-Final.pdf) A few years later, she lost her job after exposing political corruption within the national government, twice.

Education
Though she grew up in Samarai, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea, schooling soon took Nadile to new places. First, she traveled to the provincial capital, Alotau, to attend Cameron Secondary School. She left in 1971 to attend Kerevat National High School, a 11-12 grade government-funded school in Kerevat, East New Britain. She graduated from there and later sat on its Board of Governors.( https://edu.pngfacts.com/secondary-schools-in-png/kerevat-national-high-school ,https://www.pngattitude.com/2011/09/the-trials-of-dr-nadile-pm-oneill-please-intervene.html) A graduate of University of Papua New Guinea, class of 1976, and Goroka Teachers' College, she then went on to study at the University of Reading, UK (Class of 1979), and the University of South Australia (Class of 1983) in Adelaide, South Australia. At Australian National University, her Ph.D. thesis was entitled: "In search of a vocation: The case for vocational training in Papua New Guinea." (https://www.thenational.com.pg/briefs-50/) (THESIS: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/146055) Finally, Nadile studied at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.

Nadile is a member of the US Embassy's PNG-USA Alumni Association, recognizing Papua New Guineans who have participated in U.S. government-sponsored exchange programs. (https://www.pngfacts.com/news/us-exchange-program-alumni-to-meet-on-saturday)

Publications
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED285248.pdf

p.100

Changing Focus: Participation of Women in Educational Management in Australia

Australian College of Education

Nov. 1983

https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/716694 -- publication

Decolonising the intellectual mind - set : the case of PNG Rona Nadile p.175https://pacificinstitute.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/resources-links/PAH_Emerging_from_Empire.pdf

Career
Longstanding tensions between immigrant and overseas workers in PNG motivated the Department of Labour and Industrial Relations to encode laws to clarify administration of work visa. Nadile built collaboration among government, industrial, and civil sectors in PNG during the process of crafting and implementing these new laws. Their goal was to assure that companies could hire foreign workers where appropriate, without impacting employment of PNG's citizens. ( https://www.westpac.com.au/docs/pdf/aw/Winners-Women-in-Business-2009-Final.pdf))

Nadile's work included explaining the following requirements for workers visas to the public: (https://nancysullivan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/05/the-business-forum-and-the-chinese.html) The Employment of Non-Citizens Act of 2007, Section 17 - Language Requirements, states: "(1) The Secretary may not grant a work permit unless the Secretary is satisfied that a noncitizen is proficient in English, Pisin or Hiri Motu." (http://www.dpm.gov.pg/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Employment-of-Non-Citizens-Act-2007.pdf) The Work Permit Guideline published on January 1, 2009, by the Department of Labour and Industrial Relations tasks itself with "Undertak[ing] an assessment of the applicant’s English language proficiency." (https://www.workpermits.gov.pg/pdfs/Gen_Guid_1208.pdf) The Guideline outlines a variety of ways that an individual may prove proficiency, including employer-provided training either in their home countries or when they arrive in PNG. (https://www.workpermits.gov.pg/pdfs/Gen_Guid_1208.pdf) Furthermore, both the 2007 Act and the 2009 Guidelines emphasize that foreign workers must possess specialized skills, so as to balance the rights of PNG citizens to employment with the needs of corporations to have skilled workers.

In 2008, raids by the DLIR led to the arrest of 233 Chinese workers associated with the Ramu nickel mine, majority-owned by China Metallurgical Construction Group Corp and located in Madang, Highlands. The workers were without proper work permits, but with visas for entry issued primarily by the PNG consulate in Belguim. (Post-Courier 5 Nov 2008, 10 Nov 2008; The Garamut 16 Nov 2008) A number of conflicts subsequently broke out in violence at the Ramu nickel mine, (https://www.reuters.com/article/ramu-update-1/update-1-png-ramu-nickel-mine-work-resumes-after-dispute-idUSSYD25873120090515) and local Papua New Guinean dissatisfaction that Chinese workers did not speak English, had actually dropped the required English classes, and often were lacking appropriate education regarding mining work, grew. (https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_protect/---protrav/---migrant/documents/publication/wcms_538488.pdf, https://actnowpng.org/content/ramu-mine-injunction-reflects-more-general-failure-follow-our-national-goals) In May 2009, while speaking about these laws at the 25th Australia-PNG Business Council Forum, also taking place in Madang, Nadile stated that -- when she tried to turn down the work visa applications due to these issues -- the corporation went over her head to the Prime Minister's office, which demanded that she "make it happen" ... “because the agreement has been signed to develop the Ramu nickel project.” (https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_protect/---protrav/---migrant/documents/publication/wcms_538488.pdf, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/as.2010.50.1.247) Among other accounts of that talk, The National reported on the "Permit Fiasco" exposed by Nadile on May 20, 2009.(https://nancysullivan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/05/the-business-forum-and-the-chinese.html, https://nancysullivan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/05/index.html) The Prime Minister, Sir Michael Somare, joked on May 26 that he knew foreigners could get work permits for a bribe as small as "a six pack," and stating that the Department of Immigration should do a better job. (May 26, 2009; PNG Post-Courier, p. 6 "six pack for passport deals") A press release from the DLIR that same day, entitled "Clarification on media reports as published in The National paper dated 20th May 2009 with the headline 'Permit Fiasco'" David K.G. Tibu, Secretary of the Foreign Employment Division, reversed the Department's position, pointing out that "in the interest of the nation and for a good cause" work permits could be distributed to foreigners not meeting the required qualifications. (https://nancysullivan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/05/index.html)

Despite this change in direction, Nadile remained in her role at the DLIR. Until, that is, she once more became a whistleblower in September, 2011, when she charged Secretary George Vaso, her boss, with “gross misappropriation and inappropriate” use of government funds and went public with her report. (https://www.thenational.com.pg/officer-blames-boss-for-misappropriation/) She questioned why the Secretary's contingent of eight employees needed to have an 18 day trip to Fiji for conference work that was lasting only eight days, and for which K241,867 was withdrawn for "travel, clothing, and incidental expenses," as well as a K500,000 trip to Geneva. (https://www.thenational.com.pg/officer-blames-boss-for-misappropriation/) Secretary Vaso responded publicly that “opportunists” and “faceless hypocrites” were slandering him. Vaso confirmed that his use of funds was outside the allowable reasons, but argued the guidelines for spending were “well overdue for review.” Nadile was suspended for going public. (https://www.thenational.com.pg/dept-of-labour-under-microscope/) A group of fourteen police showed up at her home late one night to repossess her car. (https://pngexposed.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/whistelblower-nadile-has-car-seized-in-late-night-police-raid/) A huge public outcry demonstrated public support for Nadile. (https://pngexposed.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/public-use-social-networks-to-show-their-support-for-whistleblower-nadile/) During the two years while she was suspended and undergoing disciplinary procedures, Nadile reached the compulsory retirement age of 60. (https://www.thenational.com.pg/dept-of-labour-under-microscope/, https://www.pngattitude.com/2013/07/the-honest-public-servant-justice-for-rona-nadile.html ) When finally allowed to return to work in February 2013, at the age of 62, she experienced a lot of pressure to retire. ( https://www.pngattitude.com/2013/07/the-honest-public-servant-justice-for-rona-nadile.html )

Prime Minister Peter O'Neill hired Nadile to work for his office, instead, to unify the work permit and foreigner visa process.

( https://www.pngattitude.com/2013/07/the-honest-public-servant-justice-for-rona-nadile.html )

Running for Office
Nadile ran in the 2017 General Election, hoping to win the Samarai Mura open seat in Milne Bay. She and one other woman, Monalisa Lendia, contended with 20 male candidates. (https://www.thenational.com.pg/five-women-contest-milne-bay/) She did not win the election.

Awards
Queen's Birthday Honours 2009-2009 Birthday Honours Civil Division

"No. 59093". The London Gazette (4th supplement). 12 June 2009. pp. 33–36.

In 2009 the Westpac Women in Business Awards recognized her contributions to the public sector with the Cardno Acil Public Sector Award. ( https://www.westpac.com.au/docs/pdf/aw/Winners-Women-in-Business-2009-Final.pdf)

https://nancysullivan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/05/the-business-forum-and-the-chinese.html

MAY 20, 2009

The origininal post wrt her comments at the forum and also:

Today's National newspaper:

Permit fiasco

*Rules ‘bent’ for mining project*

By BARNABAS ORERE PONDROS in Madang

CHINESE nationals employed by the Ramu nickel mine were issued work permits despite not meeting Papua New Guinea’s labour laws which stipulate that all non-citizens must be proficient in English.

Department of Labour and Industrial Relations acting executive manager for employment promotion Dr Rhonda Nadile revealed this yesterday at the 25th Australia-PNG Business Council forum in Madang.

She said despite strong opposition from the Department of Labour and Industrial Relations over the legality of the issue, the National Government directed the department to issue the permits “because the agreement has been signed to develop the Ramu nickel project”.

According to Dr Nadile, the National Government overlooked the labour laws because the Ramu nickel project was far more important.

Dr Nadile said “under Labour laws, all non-citizens must be proficient in English before being issued work permits”.

However, a special allowance was made for Chinese employees of the Ramu nickel project.

“I must be frank with you that we followed Government directives to issue the work permits,” she said when responding to questions raised by forum participants.

Dr Nadile said if the department tried to question or oppose the issuance of work permits, the applicants only go higher up, “even to the Prime Minister’s office”.

She explained that to address the language barrier between the Chinese and nationals, the National Government had signed an agreement for the Chinese to undertake English language studies at the Divine Word University.

However, sadly, this has not transpired.

The National Government is now in the process of signing another agreement to teach the Chinese employees how to speak English.

“Language is an important aspect in employment but, at this point, there are huge problems trying to solve this issue with the Chinese at the project,” she said.

Dr Nadile’s presentation at the forum was about Papua New Guinea’s new Labour and work permit laws.

This is the announcement of whistleblowing: https://www.thenational.com.pg/officer-blames-boss-for-misappropriation/

The National – Tuesday, September 13th 2011

A SENIOR female officer in the Department of Labour and Industrial Relations claims she had confronted secretary George Vaso over the “gross misappropriation and inappropriate” use of a trust fund.

The officer, Dr Rhona Nadile, who was acting executive manager of the employment promotions division that collected work permit fees from the private sector, was later charged by Vaso, the department’s secretary, for “gross insubordination”.

The incident happened last October when Vaso was about to lead two of his staff teams to Fiji to attend two separate conferences and drew down a total of K241,867 from a Work Permit Trust Account for airfares and travel allowances.

In a minute to Vaso, Nadile questioned why the first team was travelling almost a week before the conference on Oct 22, and why the second team was booked to fly out of Fiji three days after the conference ended on Nov 5.

“Unless airline reservations are fully booked out, I see this extended stay in Fiji as a gross mismanagement of WPTA funds,” she told Vaso.

She gave details of how much each staff was paid in travel, clothing and incidental allowances.

“This represents a total of K161,598 to cover associated  costs of accommodation, incidentals, and clothing allowance for eight officers for what I understand is a total of 18 days of which there are just  eight days of official government business,” she said.

Airfares alone cost K80,269, all paid from the WPTA.

She questioned why some of the staff that represented the National Apprentice Trade Training Board and the National Training Council could not be paid under their divisions’ recurrent budget.

She said in May/June of last year, K500,000 of the fund was also used to pay for the government delegation to the ILO Geneva conference.

“Enough is enough. I have witnessed numerous occasions of what I believe is gross misappropriation and inappropriate use of WPTA funds,” she said.

https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/716694 -- publication

Decolonising the intellectual mind - set : the case of PNG Rona Nadile p.175 https://pacificinstitute.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/resources-links/PAH_Emerging_from_Empire.pdf

What was going on in Ramu Mines? https://www.reuters.com/article/ramu-update-1/update-1-png-ramu-nickel-mine-work-resumes-after-dispute-idUSSYD25873120090515

Motivation for laws

https://garamut.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/the-belgium-job-223-illegal-chinese-workers-at-ramu/

https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_protect/---protrav/---migrant/documents/publication/wcms_538488.pdf

The Ramu project was responsible for numerous conditions that would increase conflict between Chinese migrant workers and locals, making working conditions stressful, and at times unsafe, for both. In nearly all instances, weak governance by the PNG state and local levels of governance exacerbated the situation.

Local landowners continuously expressed their frustration that the country’s immigration and labour laws were not being followed. Had these laws, concerning such things as language requirements placed on expatriate labour and types of work preserved for PNG workers, been followed, they might have improved the conditions for all workers and reduced conflict217. At times frustration boiled over into rioting, the destruction of Chinese owned businesses, and personal injury to Chinese workers, including the reported deaths of six Chinese migrant workers between 2001 and 2011218. In 2009, Dr. Rhonda Nadile of the Department of Labour and Industrial Relations exposed some of the immigration irregularities, such as the issuance of work permits to Chinese workers for the Ramu mine in spite of the fact that these workers did not meet the countries language requirements. She is reported to have said in an open forum: despite strong opposition from the Department of Labour and Industrial Relations over the legality of the issue, the National Government directed the department to issue the permits “because the agreement has been signed to develop the Ramu nickel project. (…) the National Government overlooked the labour laws because the Ramu nickel project was far more important219.

Survey’s conducted by Smith and his researchers found that, mirroring findings by researchers at other Chinese overseas enclaves, a large source of tension between Chinese and local workers was as a result of the language barrier220. Weak governance not only impacted immigration, but also all other aspects of the working conditions at the Ramu mine, increasing tensions among workers: in a perfect regulatory regime, such pressures would not be a source of tension, but local and provincial governments in PNG have limited capacity to enforce their own regulations governing wages, workers’ safety or land titling, similar to the situation at other Chinese mining enclaves in Africa (Haglund, 2009: pp. 641–45). Other than police, whose incomes are generally supplemented, or paid in full, by the mining company, and a single health worker at the Basamuk clinic, the government has no presence at the mine site. These pressures are at the heart of the grievances of local workers221.

https://www.thenational.com.pg/vaso-denies-corruption-allegations/

https://www.thenational.com.pg/dept-of-labour-under-microscope/

https://www.thenational.com.pg/labour-secretary-vows-to-fight-allegations/

The National – Tuesday, September 13th 2011

LABOUR and Industrial Relations Secretary George Vaso has vowed to protect his integrity and that of the department he heads following allegations of gross mismanagement in The National yesterday.

He said last night that the administrative issues discussed in the report were based on a 2010 uncertified report compiled by a suspended officer.

While he did not deny the allegations, Vaso said they had been making the rounds since last year and wondered why it had found its way to the media recently.

“It appears that the suspended officer, Rona Nadile, is making these claims to put me in the spotlight to create uncertainty in the minds of the minister and cabinet to push her candidacy for the job,” he said.

“I had responded to the questions faxed to me by the reporter but the report today (yesterday) was written in such a way to make me look bad.

“I had already been prosecuted and found guilty by the media,” Vaso said.

“I have strived through the rank and file of the department and was nominated by Peter O’Neill to the job when he was public service minister and I will continue to discharge my duties loyally to the government of the day.”

He said he was seeking legal advice on the matter.

https://www.bridge-project.org/gender-and-elections-in-port-moresby-png-meri-na-man-olgeta1/

http://www.americansamoarenewal.org/sites/default/files/resource_documents/doc.pdf

Pacific 2020 : Challenges and opportunities for growth

Attended -- employment and labour markets, 20 july 2005, canberra

http://www.inapng.com/pdf_files/National%20Forestry%20Dialogue_PNG.pdf

National Dialogue on Forestry Mission Report PRERARED FOR THE INSTITUTE OF NATIO AL N AFFAIRS BY GRAHAM TYRIE

Took place Dec 2006

Attended -- National Dialogue on Forestry

P.39: Rona Nadile, Dept. of Labour & Employment: The issue of work permits in the forestry sector: Many overseas staff lack skills. Many companies ask for exemptions to educational qualification requirements. On our part, it is the need to transfer skills to PNGeans that is really important. Abuse of PNGeans is happening and we want to limit that.

https://epsp-web.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/newsletter_docs/doc_EPSPKibiGadonaDecember2014.pdf

Sponsor: EPSP is a significant partnership between the Governments of PNG and Australia.

The goal of EPSP is to strengthen key government institutions to support equitable service delivery to the men, women and children of Papua New Guinea.

Attended -- Women in Leadership 2014

(https://www.pngattitude.com/2013/07/the-honest-public-servant-justice-for-rona-nadile.html)

In October 2010 she wrote to the Secretary of her department explaining the law on the work permit trust account and that the account was not being managed correctly according to the law. Rona pointed out that this amounted to misappropriation. The following month she was suspended from duty. ...She was then compelled to go through public service disciplinary procedures and, after more than two years, was eventually reinstated in February this year....Furthermore, once Rona was allowed to return, at the age of 62, people tried to get her to retire.

Because of her experience in visas and work permits, however, Rona has now been given a job in the Prime Minister's office on a project to merge work permits with foreign visas to make it easier for foreign business and investment in PNG.

September 23, 2011

Dr Rona Nadile, sacked from the Department of Labour for exposing gross misappropriation and misuse of Trusts Funds

On September 24, 2011, at the 25th Papua New Guinea - Australia Business Forum in Madang, there was a presentation by Dr Rona Nadile, the First Assistant Secretary of the Department of Labour and Industrial Relations. I asked her how it is we have a major resource extraction project in Madang where most foreign workers speak no English.

When these work permits came across her desk she was told that the Prime Minister's Department wanted her to 'make it happen' and issue all work permits for mining company RAMU NiCo Management's employees. (https://www.thenational.com.pg/mcc-employees-undergo-training/ https://www.pngattitude.com/asopa_people/about-png-attitude.html)

Chinese nationals employed by the Ramu nickel mine were issued work permits despite not meeting Papua New Guinea’s labour laws which stipulate that all non-citizens must be proficient in English. (https://www.pngattitude.com/asopa_people/about-png-attitude.html)

Department of Labour and Industrial Relations acting executive manager for employment promotion Dr Rhonda Nadile revealed this yesterday at the 25th Australia-PNG Business Council forum in Madang.

She said despite strong opposition from the Department of Labour and Industrial Relations over the legality of the issue, the National Government directed the department to issue the permits “because the agreement has been signed to develop the Ramu nickel project”.

From The Namorong Report

Prime Minister O’Neill’s vow to tackle corruption and the misuse of public monies is not going to bear any fruit unless the government moves to protect whistleblowers like Dr Rhona Nadile. Nadile has been sacked from the Department of Labour, where she was a senior officer, for exposing gross misappropriation and inappropriate use of trust funds….

One case involved the drawdown of K241,000 to cover the travel costs for Secretary George Vaso and his staff to travel to Fiji for an extended stay of 18 days to attend two conferences which were only for 8 days. Another case involved the use of K500,000 from the Work Permit Trust Account so a delegation could attend an ILO conference in Geneva.

“Enough is enough”, wrote Nadile in a memo to Vaso, “I have witnessed numerous occasions of gross misappropriation and inappropriate use of WPTA funds”.

As a result of her questioning of the payments, Nadile was suspended from duty and charged with gross insubordination and has now been dismissed

Meanwhile a report outlining specific cases of abuse of funds have been given to new Minister for Labour, Martin Aini, but he has failed to make any public statement on the matter.

ITEM

Whistleblower Nadile has car seized in late night police raid

By A Special Correspondent

Whistleblower Dr Rona Nadile, suspended and then sacked from the Department of Labour for revealing misappropriation and misuse of Trust Funds, has had her official vehicle seized by police in a heavy-handed and humiliating late-night raid.

Dr Nadile was at home with church fellowship when, at about 10 o’clock at night, a police vehicle (ZGC 978) with at least five policemen from Waigani Police Station arrived at her house. And if that wasn’t enough, the police vehicle was accompanied by a private registered van (CAX 179).

There were about 14 people in all, cowards and bullies, ever so big and strong and ever so brave to commandeer Dr Nadile’s vehicle, which was her right to hold.

Dr Nadile was allowed no representation and was forced to hand over the keys to the vehicle. Not one of the police would disclose his name. The perpetrators who organised this outrage should be brought to account immediately.

How demeaning is this and what intimidation for any citizen of Papua New Guinea let alone a professional like Dr Nadile. The person(s) responsible for this must be so nasty and mean that he/she is not fit to hold any responsible position.

ITEM

Group communication

From Barbara Short

I hear that Dr Rona Nadile, one of our ex-Keravats, has stood up against some corruption in her department and is now in need of support. I would love to help her in any way I can.

If anybody has any suggestions please let me know. I thought maybe I could write an article for PNG Attitude. Lets all get behind her! Tuum Est again!

Dear Ex-Keravat students and staff - One of the Ex-Keravats, Dr Rona Nadile, is having a spot of bother after reporting corrupt ways in her Labour Department.

I'm sure some of you may remember her, a delightful lady, very hard working, honest, and compassionate. I remember her when she served on the school's BOG for awhile. Also, she helped me when I was writing TUUM EST.

Now she has been sacked for "insubordination". See the article which Keith Jackson has placed on PNG Attitude. Some of you might like to add comments to this.

Some of the ex-students have written to me about it. It appears that this sort of thing is the "norm". It you stand up for justice you lose your job.

Many of the women, especially, are fearful, and tend to keep quiet or else have stood up in the past and are now at home sewing dresses to try to make a living. These women are often highly qualified and experienced but are bullied out of the formal workforce.

Priscilla Kare (Hivorimori Opa) is doing a great job. She is now working for the PNG Education Advocacy Network which have done a survey and found out that literacy levels are now very low in PNG.

Even students who have managed to stay in school until Grade 8 are still illiterate. You can read about it on PNG Attitude.

It is fortunate that our ex-students are still around to do so much to try to steer PNG back to a level course. But sadly they are dying far too young.

I heard about two who died recently - one was John Gesa (1978-79) who was a maths lecturer at the University of Technology, Lae - and also Kari Poawai wrote to me to tell me that another good ex-Keravat Mrs Noreen Kenas Kanasa passed away in the early hours of Sunday (28 August 2011) morning.

Noreen was a Principal Magistrate and instrumental in the Juvenile Justice Reform Program and was on the Tribunal panel to probe allegations of corruption against Arthur Somare at the time of her passing. Her eldest son is a medical doctor and other 3 children are at Uni.

I hope someone will be able to help Rona. Keith has appealed to the new Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill. We'll see if he is up to it.

(https://www.pngattitude.com/2011/09/the-trials-of-dr-nadile-pm-oneill-please-intervene.html)


 * Colorado State University Campus Rec Fort Collins, Colorado
 * The Australian National University Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
 * University of South Australia Class of 1983 · Adelaide, South Australia
 * University of Reading, UK Class of 1979 · Reading, England
 * University of PNG Class of 1976 · University of Papua New Guinea- Goroka Teachers' College · Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
 * Kerevat National High School (ENBP) Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
 * Cameron Secondary School Left in 1971 · Alotau
 * Alotau Current city since July 9, 2020
 * Samarai, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea Hometown

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED285248.pdf

p.100

Changing Focus: Participation of Women in Educational Management in Australia

Australian College of Education

Nov. 1983

https://www.pngfacts.com/news/us-exchange-program-alumni-to-meet-on-saturday

PNG-USA Alumni are Papua New Guineans who have participated in U.S. government-sponsored exchange programs or studied in the United States, as well as Americans who have participated in exchange or research programs in Papua New Guinea.

https://www.thenational.com.pg/png-us-alumni-forms-association-ready-to-forge-relationships/

https://asopa.typepad.com/asopa_people/people/page/11/

''Photo: PNG-USA Alumni Association: Front row - Alisha Barampataz (extraordinary member), US Ambassador Teddy Taylor, Simon Kenehe (Chairman), Eleina Butuna (Secretary), Dr Rona Nadile (extraordinary member). Back row - Samson Komati (Treasurer), ret'd Colonel Reg Renagi (Deputy Chairman), Vincent Malaibe (extraordinary member), Solomon Kantha (Deputy Treasurer)''