The New Dawn FM Community Radio was set up in 2000 to mark the optimism about the future of the Autonomous Province of Bougainville following a terrible civil war that left countless thousands of people dead, injured or internally displaced.
Initially, New Dawn FM broadcasted to the many towns and villages in the Tinputz and Buka Passage area of north Bougainville. The locally owned and managed radio station not only provides an independent news, information, education and entertainment to listeners, but also be a model for the possible establishment of community radio stations elsewhere.