Pettowa Paraka (born 16 November 1993) is a Papua New Guinean-born Australian professional rugby union player for the Queensland Reds in the Super Rugby competition. He is mainly a loosehead prop, although he can play all three front row positions.
Paraka's family are from the village of Baiyer in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea. He was born in the provincial capital of Mount Hagen. Paraka was introduced to rugby union when he moved to the Gold Coast in Australia for his secondary education at The Southport School, where he was a boarding student. He was selected for the Australian Schoolboys rugby team in his fnal year at Southport in 2011.
Paraka joined Easts Tigers Rugby in 2012 and was a member of the club's Premier Rugby grand final winning team in 2013. He was selected for the Australia U20 team that competed at the IRB Junior World Championship in South Africa in 2012.