Development Forum in Papua New Guinea: Upsides and Downsides

Abstract

This article will review the circumstances in which the Development Forum in Papua New Guinea was first established, and then show how the institution has been modified in response to political pressures emanating from inside and outside the extractive industry sector of the national economy. Specific attention will be paid to negotiations over the development of the Lihir gold mine between 1993 and 1995, to the ramifications of the Organic Law on Provincial Governments and Local-level Governments that was gazetted in 1995, to the provisions of the Oil and Gas Act that was gazetted in 1998 and to the unfinished business of creating a new regulatory framework for the mining industry.

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Colin Filer

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Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Australia. The author can be contacted by e-mail at [email protected].