LKinnon,
There is a reason why so many people in PNG live in security compounds with H24 for many, I hope you get the message ---- personal safety is just very difficult to achieve to a reasonable level of risk ---- many of the posters with warnings for you are old PNG hands, take their advice.
In very recent times, with an organisation with which I have some connection, in the end the Lae base was moved to an encampment behind barbed wire on the aerodrome at Nadzab. ---- and not because it was a great place to stay. Strictly fly-in, fly-out to Cairns.
Don't forget, as well as guns, one of the favorites is the good old machete in the hands of the raskols.
Sadly, these days, it ain't worth the risk, doing what you want to do, and that is before the logistics of avgas and mogas.
Tootle pip!!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20....davidfickling
And that is the best of law and order in the country.