Autonomous Region Muslim Mindanao News October 2016

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Autonomous Region Muslim Mindanao Archived News
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Wars of ancient history were about possessions, territory, power, control, family, betrayal, lover's quarrel, politics and sometimes religion.

But we are in the Modern era and supposedly more educated and enlightened .

Think about this. Don't just brush off these questions.

  • Why is RELIGION still involved in WARS? Isn't religion supposed to be about PEACE?
  • Ask yourself; What religion always campaign to have its religious laws be accepted as government laws, always involved in wars and consistently causing WARS, yet insists that it's a religion of peace?

WHY??

There are only two kinds of people who teach tolerance:
  1. The Bullies. They want you to tolerate them so they can continue to maliciously deprive you. Do not believe these bullies teaching tolerance, saying that it’s the path to prevent hatred and prejudice.
  2. The victims who are waiting for the right moment to retaliate. They can’t win yet, so they tolerate.

DepEd-ARMM honors Bangsamoro teachers, calls them 'unsung heroes'

(PNA), JMC/NYP/EOF

COTABATO CITY, Oct. 10 (PNA) -- "Teachers deserved not just recognition but honor and emulation."

With these words, Dr. John Magno, regional secretary of the Department of Education of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DepEd-ARMM) led in honoring 10 outstanding Bangsamoro teachers Sunday in a delayed celebration of the 2016 World Teachers’ Day.

The 2016 World Teachers Day was on Oct. 5.

Magno said the awards served as recognition for the invaluable services of teachers in the learning and development processes of students in the region and to the Education department itself.

Citing a story of a master teacher in the region qualified for promotion as school principal, or district supervisor, but chose to remain a classroom teacher, Dr. Magno noted he has high regards to the “unsung heroes” of the nation in reference to the teachers.

"I have high regards and respect for teachers who put the interest of school children than their own interest," Magno told reporters.

According to Jaime Mendoza, Jr. of Parang National High School in Parang, Maguindanao, one of the awardees, said a teacher is satisfied and fulfilled if his or her student excel in academics and in life.

Mendoza served as a classroom teacher for many years and is now the English department head in his school.

Mendoza said he was proud to be among the 10 outstanding teachers in the region.

“I am much honored being named as an outstanding teacher of ARMM,” he said. As of 2016, there are 29,992 public elementary, junior high school and senior high school teachers across the region.

Magno said these teachers are serving in nine schools divisions namely, Maguindanao I and II, MarawiCity, Lanao Sur I and II, Lamitan City, Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi. Each schools division nominated three teachers for the award.

For this year's search for outstanding teachers, a total of 25 teacher qualifiers underwent screenings that include panel interviews, written examinations, teaching demonstration and a review of qualifiers' pertinent documents.

The awardees for elementary school category are: Fridanovie Rabor (Datu Saililah Elementary School, Maguindanao I Division); Gideon Dable (Limpongo Elementary School, Maguindanao I Division); Susan Berganio (Nuro Central Elementary School, Maguindanao II Division); Maria Helena Barlovento (Maluso Central Elementary School, Basilan Division) and Romel Plando (Hadji Yunos Jumdain Elementary School, Tawi-Tawi Division).

Fro secondary school category, the winners were Mendoza of Parang, Maguindanao, Asnawi Rakiin (Datu Mamintal Adiong National High School, Lanao Sur I Division); Primo Sanosa, Jr. (Malabang National High School, Lanao Sur II Division); Melba Abdulla (Maluso National High School, Basilan Division) and Grace Ann Pangambayan (Sulu National High School, Sulu Division).

They received plaques and cash prizes. The regional celebration has the theme “Guro Kabalikat sa Pagbabago.”

DENR-ARMM to distribute land titles in Maguindanao as anti-poverty program

(PNA), BNB/NYP/EOF

COTABATO CITY, Oct 9 (PNA) -- Farmers in Maguindanao towns disturbed by repeated hostilities in the past can now own and farm the lands with the help of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DENR-ARMM), officials said Sunday.

Forester Kahal Kedtag, DENR-ARMM regional secretary, told reporters that land titles worth roughly PHP12 million will be awarded Monday to farmers in the towns of Shariff Aguak, Datu Saudi Ampatuan (Pagatin), Mamasapano and Salibo, all in Maguindanao.

The military coined the adjoining towns as "SPMS box" due to previous armed hostilities involving soldiers and Moro bandits.

"The government is developing these areas into productive communities," Kedtag said, adding that his office is gearing up to distribute 1,587 hectares currently classified as alienable and disposable public lands.

He said the massive distribution of land titles, dubbed “Handog Titulo,” aims at combating poverty and stimulating progress and development in the province.

It is a program for social upliftment in support of a vibrant economy and a more responsive government.

Kedtag said DENR-ARMM is distributing a total of 106 land titles covering 213 hectares of public lands.

“The free land survey and land titling are DENR-ARMM’s counterpart on ARMM government’s Humanitarian and Development Action Plan (HDAP),” Kedtag said.

The ARMM-HDAP is a project of Regional Gov. Mujiv Hataman that will implement various government initiatives specifically relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction of both ‘horizontal’, in reference to school buildings, houses, and health centers, and ‘vertical’ infrastructures, or roads and bridges, and provision of livelihood programs that will promote peace and improve the situation in calamity-affected communities specifically in 15 Maguindanao towns.

“The beneficiaries are now proud landowners and enjoy the security of tenure,” Kedtag added.

Without the help of the regional government, an individual who undergoes this process would have to spend millions of pesos.

Kedtag said for this year, the ARMM allocated another PHP42 million worth of land for 15 municipalities in Maguindanao outside the SPMS box and one in Lanao del Sur.

“This is the mandate of Gov. Hataman to bring the government services closer to the people, so with the free land titling, we can help uplift the lives of the Bangsamoro people,” Kedtag said.

A ceremonial distribution is expected to be graced by local officials and the beneficiaries.

The regional secretary said he wanted to see the barren and idle lands planted with various high value crops in the next two years.

Repatriated OFWs receive assistance from OWWA-ARMM

(ORVRivera-PIA12 with report from OWWA-ARMM)

COTABATO CITY (PIA) – The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration, in partnership with the Department of Trade and Industry recently conducted an Entrepreneurship Development Training (EDT) for repatriated Overseas Filipino Workers from Maguindanao Province.

OWWA-ARMM Regional Director Amy Crisostomo said, somel 40 beneficiaries under their Balik Pinas, Balik Hanapbuhay program were given inputs on entrepreneurship as part of OWWA’s reintegration program.

Crisostomo said, these beneficiaries were either displaced by hostilities, political conflict in the host country, victims of illegal recruitment or human trafficking.

Balik Pinas, Balik Hanapbuhay program grants a non-cash livelihood assistance of P10,000 to provide immediate relief to displaced member OFWs.

The assistance consists of techno-skills and entrepreneurship training and starter kits that will aid the beneficiary towards in their chosen business ventures.

Experts from DTI-ARMM assisted the beneficiaries in identifying their prospective business, making a simple business plan and how to properly handle and improve the plans they have laid out for their business.

DTI-Armm conducts forum for Consumer Welfare Month

(Sunnex)

THE Department of Trade and Industry in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DTI-Armm) is conducting a series of activities in line with the celebration of the 2016 Consumer Welfare Month (CWM).

DTI-Armm Secretary Anwar Malang said the celebration of CWM aimed to promote consumer empowerment and cooperate with various stakeholders to ensure that consumers are well educated and protected.

Malang said they conducted Consumer Forum on Malnutrition Awareness on Wednesday, in Cotabato City, which was attended by government officials, academe and business sectors of Armm.

The forum focused on the nutritional status of Armm residents and the government’s intervention and programs, consumer protection, rights and responsibilities, and financial literacy.

Mary Ann Morales, chief of consumer public awareness bureau of DTI- Soccsksargen, discussed topics about consumer protection, consumer rights and responsibilities, and Republic Act 7394 or the Consumer Act of the Philippines.

Morales said informing and involving consumers are ways to ensure the consumer’s protection and promoting consumer welfare.

Malang said the other activities this month will included Diskwento Caravan in Basilan, Consumer Education and Information in the province of Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, and Provincial Monitoring of Enforcement of Fair Trade Laws.

A cooking contest and installation of Timbangan ng Bayan will also take place in key towns in the region.

The CWM is observed in October annually pursuant to Presidential Proclamation 1098.

This year’s CMW celebration in anchored on the theme “Consumer Protection: A Shared Responsibility.”

ARMM intensifies anti-poverty drive to create more programs

(PNA), LAP/NYP/EOF

COTABATO CITY, Oct. 6 (PNA) -- Ranking officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) are directed to intensify the region's anti-poverty drive aimed at uplifting the lives of poor families who are mostly living in impoverished communities.

ARMM Executive Secretary Atty. Laisa Alamia has convened a top-level meeting of heads of agencies directly involved in improving the lives of millions of ARMM inhabitants.

“The best way to combat poverty in the region is to properly deliver the programs and projects because these will have significant effects on their daily lives,” Alamia said.

She told department heads of line agencies and locally created regional offices that now is the time to face the challenge to improve peoples lives.

“It will take time to solve the poverty challenge, but we in the regional government must continue to lead the fight,” Alamia said.

The special meeting participants had discussed the regional programs and projects aimed at alleviating poverty, especially in conflict affected communities.

Executive Director Baintan Ampatuan of the region’s planning and development office presented during the event ARMM’s medium-term regional development plan (MTRDP) covering the years 2017 to 2022.

Ampatuan explained that MTRDP is a six-year undertaking aligned with the national government’s Philippine Development Plan.

The strategic cluster convergence plan, a three-year initiative of the ARMM cabinet cluster to carry out the administration’s priorities for 2016-2019, was also discussed.

Alamia said the region has various programs and projects on poverty alleviation such as the Bangsamoro Regional Inclusive Development for Growth and Empowerment, Humanitarian and Development Action Plan, and Health, Education, Livelihood, Peace and Governance, and Synergy.

With the challenge to end poverty, Alamia said the regional government will improve its services in education, health, welfare, barangay, agri-fishery, infrastructure and non-infrastructure.

Two strategies were also discussed during the poverty reduction meeting. These include immediate strategy dubbed 'Labanan ang Kahirapan sa ARMM,' or the ‘Apat Dapat Program’, that focused on key interventions concerning the four basic needs of every family, namely food, lighting, water and sanitation, and shelter.

Alamia said the region’s anti-poverty long-term strategy is the balancing of the economy that includes enhancing the productivity of the farming sector in order to increase agricultural production in rural areas.

“The local and regional governments will jointly work to provide an environment conducive to industrial development and in strengthening the services sector,” Alamia said.

DTI-ARMM holds 1st ARMM franchising expo

(BPI/APB/PIA-10)

MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur, Oct. 5 (PIA) -- The Department of Trade and Industry in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DTI-ARMM) conducted the 1st franchising expo on October 4, at the region’s seat in Cotabato City.

DTI-ARMM Secretary Atty. Anwar Malang said the expo, attended by officials and employees of the different line agencies, academe, and local businessmen, was aimed to provide the participants knowledge on entrepreneurship and business development.

The activity featured four speakers who discussed the various aspects of business and franchising opportunities in the region. It also featured talks from experts on trends in the field of franchising.

Atty. Malang sees an upward growth of the region’s economy noting that the franchising expo provides an opportunity for business seekers and those who are planning to expand an existing business to gain valuable knowledge, insight, and guidance.

Norma Arcega-Oro, DTI-ARMM senior trade-industry development specialist, discussed ways and techniques on how to start a business. A team from Metrobank, meanwhile, shared inputs on how to fund a business venture and manage capital.

Jed Arboleda, Philippine Franchise Association (PFA) consultant, said the potential for the growth of franchising in the ARMM is high. “Franchising is one of the best ways to increase the number of stores because you use other people’s money,” he said.

He also discussed ways on how to invest in the right franchise educating the participants in making wise decisions before investing.

The general public can join a business matching event today at the ORG Compound in Cotabato City. The activity is a joint effort of the DTI-ARMM and PFA.

DENR - ARMM donate computer sets, trash bins to MSU - Maguindanao

(PNA), FPV/NYP

DATU ODIN SINSUAT, Maguindanao, Oct. 4 (PNA) -- In a peculiar move to instill environmental concerns to the minds of the youth, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources – Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DENR-ARMM) distributed trash bins and donated computer sets to a state-run university here.

The DENR-ARMM visit came amid the Mindanao State University -Maguindanao’s opening ceremonies for its 43rd founding anniversary on Monday.

DENR-ARMM Secretary Kahal Kedtag inspired university students as he initially handed over two sets of desktop computers with printers to the College of Forestry to help expand the capacity of the department on research and extension.

Eight more sets of computers would also be given to other colleges of the university, Kedtag said.

He also led the turnover of 10 big trash bins to the university in support to their clean and green environment advocacy in the campus.

Kedtag, a proud alumnus of the university, has reminded students in a speech about the value of education as a great social equalizer in the field of global competitiveness.

"Up to this day, never have I been proud to know that most of us, alumni of this institution, have assumed executive positions in the government as well as in the corporate world," Kedtag said.

While here, Kedtag also witnessed the signing of a memorandum of agreement between the MSU administration led by Chancellor Bai Soraya Sinsuat and 1st Mechanized Infantry Battalion for their campus greening project in support to the National Greening Program of the government.

Lamitan mayor bags CSC Pagasa citation

By John Unson (philstar.com)

COTABATO CITY, Philippines - A mayor trying since 2013 to set free her 45 constituent-barangays from the bondage of armed conflicts and underdevelopment received a “Regional Pagasa Award” from the Civil Service Commission (CSC).

Lamitan City Mayor Rosita Furigay was the only local executive in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) to receive such an award during the commission’s 116th anniversary celebration last Wednesday.

The anniversary program in ARMM of the CSC’s 116th founding anniversary was held at the 300-seater Shariff Kabunsuan Cultural Complex in Cotabato City.

Furigay is now in her second term as mayor of Lamitan City, capital of Basilan, an island province in the autonomous region.

No one from among local politicians dared to contest her bid for a second term during the May 9, 2016 elections owing to her popularity among Lamitan City’s more than 40,000 registered voters, whose barangays she helped rise from poverty and devastations wrought by armed conflicts.

Sources from CSC on Saturday told The STAR Furigay qualified for the commission’s Pagasa award this year owing to her feats in governance and for promoting peace and development among Muslim and Christian communities in Lamitan City. Nation ( Article MRec ), pagematch: 1, sectionmatch: 1

There were dramatic improvements in the economy of Lamitan City in the past three years, ushered in by the socio-economic, fiscal and administrative cooperation between its local government unit and the office of ARMM Gov. Mujiv Hataman.

Hataman's costly infrastructure projects in Lamitan City are being managed jointly by ARMM Public Works Secretary Don Loong and engineer Soler Undug, chief of the Basilan District Engineering Office.

Undug had also received the "Outstanding Public Service Exemplar Award" from the CSC-ARMM for having accomplished major infrastructure projects of the Hataman administration in different towns in Basilan in months past.

The Hataman administration is presently constructing a government operations complex in Barangay Sta. Clara in Lamitan City, where all provincial offices of line agencies in ARMM are to relocate.

Furigay said the special citation she received from the CSC emboldened her more to work harder for her Muslim and Christian constituents.

ARMM mulls activation of local school boards

(ARMM Bureau of Public Information)

COTABATO CITY – Officials in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao said they are determined to harness local school boards (LSBs) in improving the state of education in the ARMM.

Alfhadar Pajiji, Department of Education (DepEd) Assistant Regional Secretary for Special Projects, said they recognize the essential role of LSBs in advancing the welfare of public schools in the ARMM. The region is composed of the provinces of Sulu, Maguindanao, Basilan, Tawi-Tawi, and Lanao del Sur, as well as the cities of Marawi and Lamitan.

“While the regional government is working at addressing issues in the education sector, the functions of the LSB cannot be underestimated and the need to make these boards functional is a challenge to the department,” he said.

Republic Act 7160, or the Local Government Code of 1991, mandates local government officials to work on education sector concerns. Under the law, school boards should be composed of local chief executives, school superintendents and district supervisors, councilors, board members, treasurers, Sangguniang Kabataan chairmen, presidents of parent-teacher associations, and non-academic personnel of schools.

The LSB determines the annual supplementary budget needs for the operation and maintenance of public schools within the province, city or municipality, and serves as an advisory committee to the local legislative body on educational matters such as the necessity for, and the use of local appropriations for educational purposes.

“Having a strong, efficient and working local school board is the key to meeting effective delivery of education services, such as identification of priority schools to be rehabilitated, and facilities to be constructed,” Pajiji said.

The regional DepEd official cited the case of Naga City, which saw a dramatic improvement in its basic education after its then mayor, the late secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government Jesse Robredo, activated the city school board.

Robredo was among the local chief executives who advocated for the activation of the LSBs to improve education in the country. He noted that “local education governance reforms can be done” and that “empowered and functional local school boards have both the mandate and legal personality to serve as focal point for these reforms.”

Pajiji said regional DepEd is “encouraging local government units throughout the ARMM to help make local school boards more functional. The pressing problems we have on education such as the repair of dilapidated classrooms can be addressed more efficiently if we have active school boards.” ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman said among the current challenges the region faces is the poor state of education and the regional government is taking various steps to reform and improve this sector.

The ARMM government has allotted a total of P2.3 billion for basic education facilities in the region from 2013 to 2015. Through its Department of Public Works and Highways, it has built a total of 332 school buildings across the region in 2013 and 2014. The ongoing construction of 819 additional classrooms is set to be finished by next year.

The region has 2,155 elementary schools and 304 secondary schools that are grouped into nine schools divisions, namely Maguindanao I and II, Marawi City, Lanao del Sur I and II, Lamitan City, Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi.

Maguindanao farmers plant rice in dry area of marshland, increase regional output

By Edwin O. Fernandez [(PNA), RMA/NYP/EOF]

COTABATO CITY, Oct. 1 (PNA) -- Muslim farmers in Maguindanao province have expanded palay planting activities to up to 60,000 hectares in the Liguasan marshland thereby increasing production level by as much as 34 percent in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

Maguindanao Gov. Esmael Toto Mangudadatu said farmers grabbed the opportunity to plant palay in minimally inundated portion of the Liguasan marshland, increasing their productivity and improved livelihood.

According to Eugene Strong, agriculture secretary in the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF-ARMM), said Lanao del Sur rice production also increased this year.

Strong said a total of 88 percent rice production from Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur was enough to feed the region's 3 million population.

With about 60,000 hectares of marshland converted into rice fields, Mangudadatu said the rice production of Maguindanao is expected to increase by 34 percent, including rice production in upland areas of the towns of Datu Salibo, Datu Piang, Mamasapano, Datu Hofer, Datu Saudi Ampatuan and Datu Piang.

Maguindanao farmers were lured into "invading" the dried up portion of the marshland to plant palay with the assistance from DAF that included post harvest facilities.

Engr. Don Loong, regional secretary of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH-ARMM), said Maguindanao towns, which have long been suffering from lack of road network to transport goods, were now enjoying newly built roads connecting towns situated in the marshland.

Kadiguia Abdulla of DAF-ARMM said Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur provided 88 percent of the rice requirements of ARMM while the provinces of Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi produced only 12 percent of the total regional requirement owing to the fact that most agriculture workers in three-separate provinces were principally into aqua-marine production.

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