Susan Karike Huhume

Susan Hareho Karike Huhume (1955/1956–11 April 2017) was a Papua New Guinean housewife. At age 15, she designed the colours of her country's national flag.

Karike married Nanny Huhume and they had four children and twelve grandchildren. She died on 11 April 2017, at age 61, following a stroke and was buried on 28 July 2017. — was visited by the Selection Committee on Constitutional Development. The committee already had a preliminary design for a new flag for Papua New Guinea, which had been designed by an Australian artist, Hal Holman. nor did she like the vertical stripes that the flag was split into. She used a diagonal line and the colours red, black and yellow, as well as keeping the motifs of the Southern Cross and the bird of paradise. This design was presented to the committee on 1 March 1971 and was formally adopted as the flag of Papua New Guinea on 4 March 1971. She received no pension from the government and lived in poverty. The three-month delay between her death and her burial was due to the fact that the Prime Minister's office had promised her family that she would have a state funeral, yet rescinded on this promise.

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