Papua New Guinea’s Planning Minister has defended the country's controversial national identification program amid allegations of corruption and mismanagement.
In 2015, Papua New Guinea’s Government announced it would attempt to register all its citizens in a central database and issue them with photocards for voting and identification.
Since then, only 500,000 Papua New Guineans have been registered, with others not being able to register due to broken printing machines.
Despite this, Papua New Guinea citizens will need this card to vote in the next election.