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Civil Administration Reform – 2004

On 14 January 2004, the National Government handed over the Constitution to the Autonomous Bougainville Government in Arawa.¹ The new Autonomous Bougainville Constitution includes the establishment and functioning of a public services commission. As part of the public service reform initiative, administrator Peter Tsiamalili, “said the size of the Bougainville public service will be slashed from the present 600 to 300 before the end of the year, adding that out of that one third will be based at the provincial headquarters and two thirds in the districts.”²

1. “Papua New Guinea government hands over Bougainville constitution,” BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific, January 17, 2005.
2. “BÕville workforce to be downsized,” PNG Post-Courier, September 13, 2004.