This is the US State Department's advice regarding travel to PNG, most other countries give similar reports.
https://travel.state.gov/content/tra...vel%20Advisory.
PNG suffers major problems in virtually ever sector you can think of from law and order to health care to basic infrastructure. Yet there are vast natural resources, the profits from which could develop the country. Usual question of where the money actually goes.
PNG was a failed state a few years ago, just managed to climb out of it and now seems to be heading down again.
PNG?s Descent to a Fragile State ? Can it recover again? | PNG Economics