| Theonila Roka Matbob | |
| Office4: | Minister of Education |
| President4: | Ishmael Toroama |
| Term Start4: | 2 October 2020 |
| Office5: | Member of the Bougainville House of Representatives |
| Constituency5: | Ioro |
| Termstart5: | 2020 |
| Predecessor5: | Michael Lapolela |
| Nationality: | Papua New Guinean |
| Birth Date: | 1990 |
Theonila Roka Matbob (born 1990)[1] is a Bougainvillian politician and Cabinet Minister. She was the second woman in Bougainville to win an open electorate seat in the Bougainville House of Representatives.[2]
Roka Matbob is from Ioro in Central Bougainville,[3] and grew up during the Bougainville Civil War.[1] She was educated at Divine Word University and the University of Goroka,[1] and subsequently established a counselling and learning centre in Iora.[3]
At the 2020 Bougainvillean general election she contested the seat of Ioro, beating 15 men to win the seat.[2] As minister of education, she was one of two women appointed on 2 October 2020 to the cabinet of the president, Ishmael Toroama, the other being Yolande Geraldine Paul.[4] [5]
In September 2020 she was one of a group of Boungainville villagers who filed a human rights complaint against Rio Tinto over environmental degradation caused by the Panguna mine.[6] [7]