Bougainville Constitutional Planning Commission

This follows the region-wide launching of awareness and consultation program for the Constitutional Planning Commission, which was concluded in Buin last Thursday.

Members of the CPC in Central Region, led by coordinator Douglas Pisi, and Director of Justice, Dennis Kuiai, addressed the teachers and students of Arawa Secondary School on Friday morning, explaining the BCPC and its importance in creating a homegrown constitution for a new sovereign state of Bougainville.

Secretary for the Department of Law and Justice, Kenneth Nanei, when delivering the President’s message to the Commissioners, called on them to learn as much from the sessions while upholding the six benchmarks set by the Toroama-Nisira government as this would help them to tailor the constitution for a new Bougainville.

“We have to learn from our past, work together at gauging views from the public and write up this home-grown constitution for a new Bougainville,” he said.

The Commission consists of 40 members who take on the task of drafting a home-grown constitution for an independent sovereign state of Bougainville in the near future.

President of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Ishmael Toroama, stressed that independence was Bougainville’s agenda and the Commission now has the important task of working together to create a constitution that reflects the dreams and aspirations of Bougainville.