16/12/2025
DEVELOPMENT
Fast tracking of development in underdeveloped countries invites foreigners to come and run the show for the benefit of them and not locals.
Locals benefit when their development is strategised people at their center working toward one goal at a reasonable time frame.
Bougainville, at this juncture, we have to be very careful. Our plans require an amicable time frame since we are still at the lower level of startup businesses, timber, sago leaves, and bamboo going up now to sheets and irons level. 99 percent in Bougainville can not afford steel and mason buildings as yet.
What does this tell us?
Getting in outside Bougainville giants. They include ging gongs, rabarabs, itchyitchy shashas, allies, and land of never learn friends to run the show. We started crying faol already. We will cry more and more if our strategies and plans ignore and neglect the resources, time, and space of our own people.
We are innovative and creative people. We are resilient and contented with what we do. We do everything to survive in our own circles. That's true. However, our weakness is ignorance and negligence. We never back or support our industrious ideas and activities, may be by our government or individuals. This is one thing we are not industrialized as yet.
We are still in the marketing stage, the business stage. We are still living in nomadic lives where hunters and gatherers are found. From that bottom and now information era, we missed out so much on industry level. This is the gap that will invite outsiders to run the show.
Fixing government institutions would be the first thing. Second, make people live permanent livelihoods. Third, moving people from the business to industry level where manufacturing activities are taking shape. The information era could be ice on the cake. Living nomadic lives and hunting for information and technology will get us nowhere. 2026 onward, you remember this article when ging gongs and the rest walking the streets.