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November 3, 2009

 (November 3, 2009,   -Martes - Script na sinulat ni Alih Anso para sa programang “Buhay –buhay sa DXUP” (7:00-8:00 A.M) sa segment na “Nakaka”. Host -Lenyrose Bajar Sunio)

Host/Lenyrose: “Na-experience mo na bang ikaw ang presiding officer o tagapangasiwa ng isang pulong o meeting? Kumusta naman? Ikaw kaibigan na nakikinig,  kontento ka ba sa pagsasagawa ng inyong presidente sa inyong mga meeting? Matagumpay o palpak man ang inyong meeting pwede mong dagdagan ang inyong nalalaman, just listen to us..dahil  ipapaliwang sa atin ni Kaka Ali mga ilang gabay sa epektibong pagpupulong ”.

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Kaka Alih:  “Yes my friend tulad ng naunang katanungan ni Lenyrose na  “Na-experience mo na bang ikaw ang presiding officer o tagapangasiwa ng isang pulong o meeting? Kumusta naman? Ikaw kaibigan na nakikinig,  kontento ka ba sa pagsasagawa ng inyong presidente sa inyong mga meeting? Matagumpay o palpak man ang inyong meeting pwede mong dagdagan ang inyong nalalaman, just listen to us..dahil heto may sinaliksik akong pag-uusapan natin, mga gabay sa epektibong pagpupulong.

Alam ko bibihira sa atin ang hindi nakadalo sa meeting.. pero napansin ninyo tila palaging hindi tayo kuntento sa mga meeting.. minsan matagal at maliit na bagay lamang naman ang pinag-usapan.. bakit? Kasi magulo Kaka..

(LAUGHING)

PAG-OORGANISA NG PUL0NG (ORGANIZING THE MEETING)

Ang pag-oorganisa ng pulong ay mahalaga upang ito ay maging epektibo at mabisa. Ang apat (4) na elemento ng isang organisadong pulong .

1. PAGPAPLANO (PLANNING)

Mga  tanong na dapat masagot kapag nagpaplano ng isang pulong:

    * Ano ba ang dapat makuha o maaabot ng grupo pagkatapos ng pulong?

    * Ano ang magiging epekto sa grupo kapag hindi nagpulong?

Kung kinakailangang magpulong, linawin ang layunin ng pulong: ito ba ay pagbibigay lamang ng impormasyon? May mga kailangan bang pagpasyahan? Mahalaga ito upang malinaw kung sino ang dapat na iimbitahan sa pulong.

1. MAGKAROON NG MALINAW NA LAYUNIN, KONG BAKIT DAPAT MAY PAGPUPULONG:

    * Pagpaplano para sa organisasyon  (Planning)

    * Pagbibigay impormasyon (may mga dapat ipaalam sa mga kasapi)

    * Konsultasyon (may dapat isangguni na hindi kayang sagutin ng ilang membro lamang)

    * Paglutas ng problema (may suliranin na dapat magkaisa ang lahat)

    * Pagtatasa (evaluation, sa mga nakaraang gawain o proyekto)

2. PAGHAHANDA (ARRANGING)

Sa imbitasyon (by letter, text o verbal), kailangang sabihan ang mga taong dapat dumalo sa pulong: kung kalian (petsa at oras), saan (lugar ng pulong), at ano ang agenda (mga bagay na pag-uusapan) na tatalakayin. Ang paghahanda ay nakadepende rin sa mga particular na tungkulin ng mga tao sa pulong.

    * Chairman/President  (presiding officer)– kailangang alam nya ang agenda, kung paano patatakbuhin ang pulong, at alam kung paano hahawakan ang mga mahihirap at kontrobersyal na mga isyu.

    * Secretary (Kalihim)– kailangan niyang ihanda ang katitikan (minutes of the meeting) o talaan noong nakaraang pulong at iba pang mga ulat at kasulatan ng organisasyon.

    * Mga kasapi sa pulong (members)– kailangang pag-aralan nila ang agenda o mga bagay na pag-uusapan para aktibo ang kanilang pakikilahok.

SA IMBITASYON DAPAT IPAALAM AT ISULAT ANG MGA PAG-UUSAPAN/TATALAKAYIN

(Agenda of the Meeting)

·   Pagbubukas ng pulong (date, day, time, and place of meeting)

·    Pagbasa at pagsang-ayon sa katitikan ng nakaraang pulong(reading the minutes of the previous meeting)

·   Pagtatalakay ng ibang paksa na may kinalaman na nakaraang pulong.(pending matters)

·   Pinakamahalagang pag-uusapan (business  of the day)

·   Ibang paksa (other matters)

·   Pagtatapos ng pulong (adjournment)

MAGHANDA SA PULONG

·   Ihanda ang lugal, (mesa. Upuan, pagkain kong kinakailangan, palikuran, kasiguruhan o security at iba pa)

·  ang mga gagamitin (pisara o blackboard, chalk or pentel pen at iba pa)

· pag-aralan (research) ang mga topic na tatalakayin, kong kinakailangan magtalataga (assign) ng taong mas higit na nakakaalam sa usapin.

3. PAGPOPROSESO (PROCESSING)

Ang pulong ay dapat mayroong mga “rules, procedures o standing orders” kung paano ito patatakbuhin. Sa pangkalahatan, pareho naman ang mga prinsipyo ng mga patakarang (rules) ginagamit ng union, nagkakaiba lang sa mga detalye.

Ang ilang mahahalagang patakaran (rules) ng pulong at ang tungkol sa mga dumalo (attendance) at pagsasagawa ng desisyon.

    * Quorum – ito ang bilang ng mga kasapi ng kasama sa pulong na dapat dumalo para maging opisyal ang pulong. Madalas ito ay 50% + 1 ng bilang ng mga inaasahang dadalo sa pulong.

    * Consensus – isang proseso ng pagdedesisyon ng kung saan kinukuha ang nagkakaisang desisyon ng lahat ng mga kasapi sa pulong.

    * Simpleng mayorya – isang proseso ng pagdedesisyon ng kung saan kinakailangan ang 50% + 1 (simple majority) ng pagsang-ayon o hindi pagsang-ayon ng mga nakadalo sa isang opisyal na pulong.

    * 2/3 majority – isang proseso ng pagdedesisyon na kung saan kinakailangan ang 2/3 o 66% ng pagsang-ayon o hindi pagsang-ayon ng mga dumalo sa isang opisyal na pulong.

MAGSIMULA AT MAGTAPOS SA TAKDANG ORAS

    * Simulan ang pagpupulong sa itinakdang panahon o oras.

    * Sikaping matapos ang pagpupulong sa itinakdang oras, alalahanin, ang ibang kasapi ay may iba pang nakatatakdang gagawin.

4. PAGTATALA (RECORDING)

          Ang tala ng pulong ay tinatawag na katitikan (minutes) ito ay mahalaga dahil ito ang opisyal na record ng mga desisyon at pinag-uusapan sa pulong. Maaari itong balikan ng organisasyon kung may kinakailangang linawin sa mga nakaraang pag-uusap. Dapat hindi lang ang Kalihim ang magtatala, ang mga kasapi dapat nagtatala rin sila ng hindi nila makalimutan ang pinag-usapan.

MAY MGA MAHAHALAGANG PAPEL SA PULONG

   1. Pinuno (Chairperson) – tinatawag ding “facilitator” tagpatnubay, o “meeting leader”. Sinisiguro niya na maayos ang takbo ng pag-uusap at pagdedesisyon. Ang chairperson ay parang pulis-trapiko na siyang nagpapaandar o nagpapahinto ng usapan sa pulong:

·         MGA PATRIKULAR NA GAWAIIN NG CHAIRPERSON

1)     Nangunguna at nag-aambag sa usapan.

2)     Kumukuha ng impormasyon at paglilinaw tungkol sa mga bagay na pinag-uusapan.

3)     Nagbibigay ng karagdagang impormasyon, naglilinaw at nagpapatawa sa mga usapan.

4)     Nag-aayos ng sistema ng pulong.

5)     Namamagitan sa mga alitan o hindi pagkakaunawaan ng mga kasama sa pulong.

   2. Secretary – tinatawag ding recorder, minutes-taker, o tagatala. Responsibilidad niya ang sistematikong pagtatala ng mga nagpag-uusapan at desisyon sa pulong. Tungkulin niya na ipaalala kung ano ang dapat pag-uusapan upang hindi mawala sa direksyon ang grupo at upang maging tuloy-tuloy ang pag-uusap.

   3. Mga kasapi sa Pulong (Members of the Meeting) – sila ang mga aktibong miyembro o kalahok sa pulong. Responsibilidad nila na ipaalala sa Chairperson at Secretary ang kanilang mga gawain. Maaari ding silang magbigay ng mga mungkahi o panukala sa pamamaraan ng pulong. Sila ang nagbabahagi, nagpapaliwanag, nagtatanong, makatuwirang pumumuna at gumagawa ng desisyon.

MGA DAPAT IWASAN SA PULONG

1.     Malabong layunin sa pulong – dapat  malinaw ang layunin sa pulong, ang may iba’t ibang paksa ang pinag-uusapan at walang direksyon ang pulong ay nakawawalang gana sa mga kasapi.

2.     Bara-bara na pulong – walang sistema ang pulong. Ang lahat ay gustong magsalita kaya nagkakagulo, kaya dapat ang “house rules”.

3.     Pagtalakay sa napakaraming bagay – hindi na nagiging epektibo ang pulong dahil sa dami ng agenda at pinag-uusapan. Pagod na ang isip ng nagpupulong.

4.     Pag-atake sa indibidwal – may mga kasama sa pulong na mahilig umatake o pumuna sa pagkatao ng isang indibidwal. Nagiging personal ang talakayan, kaya’t daihil dito nagkakasamaan ng loob ang mga tao sa pulong.

5.     Pag-iwas sa problema – posible sa isang pulong ay hindi ilabas ng mga kasama ang problema ng organisayon. Sa halip, ang binabangit nila ay iba’t iba at walang kabuluhang bagay para maiwasan ang tunay na problema.

6.     Kawalan ng pagtitiwala sa isa’t isa – walang ibubunga ang mga pulong na walang pagtitiwala at pagbubukas sa isa’t isa, dito kinakailangan ang “Iklas” manalig ka sa Allah, palaging alalahanin ang kasabihan: “may Makita kang isda sa dagat na wala sa ilog, at may Makita ka na isda na wala naman sa dagat”.

7.     Masamang kapaligiran ng pulong – masyadong maingay o magulo ang lugar ng pinagpupulungan kaya hindi magkarinigan. Minsan naman ay napakainit ng lugar o maraming istorbo gaya ng mga usyoso na nanonood, nakikinig o nakikisali, magkakalayo ang mga kinanalagyan ng mga kasamahan, dapat ang pinuno ay nakikita at naririnig ang lahat.

8.     Hindi tamang oras ng pagpupulong – ang miting ay hindi dapat natatapat sa alanganing oras – tulad halimbawa ng tanghaling tapat, sobrang gabi o sa oras ng trabaho ng mga manggagawa.

Iwasan o dapat hindi makadalo ang MGA KASAMANG NAKAKAGULO SA PULONG, sino sila? Kilalanin….

   1. Mr Huli- papaano hindi tawaging Huli eh Parating Huli – nahihinto ang takbo ng pag-uusap dahil kailangang ipaliwanag at ulitin sa nahuling dumating kung anong nangyari o napag-usapan. (LAUGHING)

   2. Mr Umali- si Maagang Umaalis – umaalis kaagad kahit hindi pa tapos ang pulong. Kadalasan ay hindi siya nakakasama sa pagdedesisyon sa huling bahagi ng pulong at siya pa minsan ang reklamador. (LAUGHING)

   3. Mr Sira-Sirang Plaka – paulit-ulit ang sinasabi dahil maaaring hindi nakikinig o talagang may kakulitan lang o gumawa ng sariling “papel” o gustong palaging “bida”. Dahil dito, nauubos ang oras ng pulong.  

   4. Mrs Duda- Parating Nagdududa – anumang tinatalakay  sa pulong ay pinagdududahan o pinagsususpetsahan. Ang tingin niya ay laging masama o negatibong balak ang grupo o ang ilang mga kasama. Walang tiwala sa kakayahan ng kasamahan.  

   5. Mr Iling-Laging Umiiling-iling – parang laging hindi tanggap ang sinasabi ng mga kasama sa grupo, na sa tuwing sasabihin ang kasamahan ay pailing-iling na walang namang sinasabi.

   6. Miss Gana-Walang Gana – bagamat pisikal na nasa pulong, ang kanyang isip ay nasa ibang lugar at may ibang ginagawa nagbabasa, nagdro-drowing, hikab ng hikab, natutulog, at iba pa, habang nagpupulong.

   7. Mr Whisper-Bulungero – nakakainis at nakakailang dahil kahit nagsasalita ang mga kasama sa grupo, bulong siya ng bulong (pangiti-ngiti pa kung minsan) sa kanyang katabi. Para bang may intrigang sinasabi sa katabi niya.

   8. Mr Apeng Daldal-Daldalero – halos sa buong pulong, siya at siya na lamang ang nagsasalita. Kadalasan din siya ang may pinakamalakas na boses, at madalas ay “out of topic.”

   9. Miss Tsismosa – nagdadala na kung anu-anong balita, tsismis at intriga na walang katuturan sa pulong. Dahil dito, nauubos ang oras ng pulong sa kanyang mga kuwento.

  10. Mr Henyo-Masyadong Marunong – ayaw magpatalo kahit kanino. Ayaw din niyang makinig sa mungkahi ng iba dahil akala niya siya ang palaging tama.

  11. Mr Pal-Paalis alis – habang nagpupulong, paalis-alis (pupunta ng comfort room, tatawag sa telepono o cellpon, makikipagkwentuhan sa iba, at kong ano-ano pa ang pinag-aabalahan) pero pagbalik ang daming tanong.

  12. Mr Tang-Tagasunod  - taga-tango at nakikisanay sa lahat ng nangyayari sa pulong at walang sariling opinion, kundi sama-sama lang sa mas maraming kasama.

Lenyrose: “Mr Chairman I moved for the adjournment of the Meeting..”

Kaka Alih: “I second the motion”   (LAUGHING) Now ladies and gentlemen, there is a move for adjournment and duly seconded.. Meeting adjourn.. Kaka Alih presiding until next meeting.

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Kanduli ng mga Bangsamoro

November 2, 2009

 

(November 2, 2009,   -Lunes - Script na sinulat ni Alih Anso para sa programang “Buhay –buhay sa DXUP” (7:00-8:00 A.M) sa segment na “Nakaka”. Host -Lenyrose Bajar Sunio)

Host/Lenyrose: “Nakapunta ka na ba sa isang Kanduli ng ating mga kapatid na Iranun, T’duray, Maguindanawon at Meranaw? Kong negative o positive ka, samahan natin si Kaka Ali dahil .. magkakanduli?. (LAUGHING).. hindi .. ipapaliwang sa atin ang Kanduli sa ating segment na nakaka ”

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Kaka Alih:  Kanduli (Maguindanawon at T’duray) o Kanduri (Iranun at Meranaw)   ay pasasalamat (thanksgiving) sa Poong Lumikha (Diyos).

Ang Kanduli ay bahagi ng kultura ng mga Bangsamoro (Iranun, T’duray, Maguindanawon at Meranaw).

Madalas na kasabay ng kanduli ay pagana o kapagana (feast), halos pareho ang dalawang adat-betad (custom and tradition) ng mga Bangsamoro. Parehong   pagpapakain sa mga panauhin ang tanging kaibhan lamang ay Niyat (layunin).

Ang kanduli ay maaring ginagawa dahil may hinihiling sa Poong Lumikha o nagpapasalamat sa mga biyayang nakamtan.

Ang Pagana (feast) naman ay pagpapakain sa mga inaanyayahang mga panauhin bilang bahagi ng pagsasaya dahil sa mga nakamtan na tagumpay. Ang madalas ang pagana ay kanduli na ring matatawag.  Kung minsan kapag may pagana ay nagkakanduli na rin.  

Ang mga pagkain ay inilalagay sa talam o bandihaw (big food tray, talam made of brass and bandihaw made of tin). Nasa gitna ang kanin na nakalagay sa plato, at napapalibutan  ng pitong platito kong saan nakalagay ang pitong klaseng ulam. Tinatakpan ang talam ng tudong (food cover) na gawa sa dahon ng anahaw, niyog o nipa.

Ang madalas (ang paborito) na nakalagay na manga ulam ay manok, sinina (lutong karneng kambing o baka) pansit, bihon, itlog, monggo,  at iba pang masasarap na lutong Bangsamoro.

Sa ganitong mga okasyon, asahan mong may ihahain na minatamis na lutong Bangsamoro tulad ng dudol, tinadtag, amik, kumukunsi, tipas, balubed at iba pa.

“Na, mahirap maging Muslim”. Bakit? ang tanong ko agad sa isang nagkukuwentong kaibigan na Kristiyano , na wala pang gaanong kaalaman sa kultura, kaugalian at pananampalataya ng mga kapatid na Bangsamoro. Pakinggan natin ang karugtong ng kuwento ng ating Kapatid na Kristiyano.

“Inimbita kami sa isang Kanduli, naku ang sarap ng mga luto at ang gaganda ng mga pandala (decoration)  ng kanilang bahay, pati ang lalagyan ng pagkain ay may decocation, na nakapatog sa sahig na nilagyan ng ikam (floor mat) na may magaganda din desinyo. Habang kami ay kumakain ay may nag-iikot at bawat isa sa bisita ay binigyan ng pera at tawag dito ay sadka (charity) at ng umuwi na kami may nakabalot pa na minatamis na pagkain. Kaya nasabi ko sa aking sarili, di ko kayang mag-Muslim, pinakain  na kami, binayaran pa kami  pa at binigyan pa kami ng  baun.”  (LAUGHING)

Ang pag-aakala ng iba ay ang kanduli ay isang rituwal na bahagi ng katuruan ng Islam. Kung papaano ginagawa ng mga Bangsamoro ang kanduli noon at ngayon ito ay nabibilang sa kanilang  kultura at kaugalian, hindi sa Islam. Kung sakali mang may bahagi ng pananampalataya ng Islam ay maliit na bahagi lamang.

Dapat nating malaman Kapatid, na hindi lahat ng kultura at kaugalian o ginagawa ng mga Bangsamoro Muslim ay katuruan ng Islam. Tama na ang sinasabi nila na ang kultura at kaugalian ng mga Bangsamoro ay hinalaw o hinango sa katuruan ng Islam, ngunit hindi nangangahulugan na ito ay bahagi ng Islam.

Ang Banal na Aklat, ang Quran ang unang batayan ng katuruan ng Islam ay nagsabi na ang pagdagdag  at paglalabis sa Gawain o katuruan ng Islam ay tinaatawag na Bid’ah (innovation). at ang lahat ng bid’ah ay pagkaligaw.

“O sangkatauhan, matakot kayo kay Allah at sabihin (tuwina) ang katotohanan. Papatnu- bayan Niya kayo sa mga mabubuting gawa at patawarin Niya kayo sa inyong mga kasalanan . At ang sinumang sumunod kay Allah at sa kanyang Sugo, tunay na kanya nang natamo ang dakilang tagumpay. (Qur’an 33:70-71)

Alamin, na ang pinakamakatotohanang salita ay ang Aklat ng Allah (Ang Banal na Qur’an) at ang pinaka mabuting patnubay ay ang patnubay ni Muhammad (sumakanya nawa ang pagpapala at kapayapaan). Ang pinakamasama sa lahat ay ang mga gawa-gawa (na lihis sa tunay na aral ng Islam) at ang bawat gawa-gawa (na mga bagay tungkol sa relihiyon) ay bid’ah at ang bawat bid’ah ay pagkakaligaw at ang bawat pagka kaligaw ay Impyerno ang hantungan.

Kahit anupaman, ang bawat tao na gumagawa (umiimbento) ng pagbabago (sa religion) at kanyang iniisip na siya ay napapalapit kay Allah sa pamamagitan nito – maging ito man ay sa paniniwala, sa gawa at sa salita – katunayan siya ay naligaw. Ito ay ayon sa kasabihan ng Propeta Muhammad SAW.

“Mag ingat sa mga bagong bagay (sa relihiyon), sapagkat ang lahat ng pagbabago (o pagiimbento) sa relihiyon ay bid’ah, at ang lahat ng bid’ah ay pagkaligaw, ang lahat ng pagkaligaw ay mauuwi sa Apoy. [Hadith-Abu Daawood, Tirmidhee; Saheeh).

Ang pagpapakain, pamimigay ng regalo at pagmamagandang loob sa kapuwa ay isang gawain na iniuutos ng Allah o katuruan ng Islam. At ang Kanduli ay napapaloob dito ang tatlong nabanggit ngunit hindi nangangahulugan na ito ay isa sa kautusan ng Allah. Ang Kanduli ay bahagi ng kulura at kaugalian, sa ibang Muslim sa ibang parte ng mundo ay hindi nagkakanduli.

Bagamat hindi bahagi ng Islam ang kanduli ito ay patuloy na ginagawa ng Bangsamoro Muslim dahil isa itong maituturing na kultura at kaugalian na hindi sumasalungat sa Islam, ngunit alalahanin palagi na ito ay hindi ipinag-uutos ng Allah sa mga Muslim, ito ay bahagi ng kultura at kaugalian ng mga Bangsamoro.

Ito ang inyong kapatid na Iranun na Bangsamoro, at inyong segment writer sa nakaka.. Kaka Ali, Wassallamu Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.

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Kahulugan ng Bangsamoro, Pilipino, Muslim at Islam

November 1, 2009

(October 23,  2009-Biyernes - Script na sinulat ni Alih Anso para sa programang “Buhay –buhay sa DXUP” (7:00-8:00 A.M) sa segment na “Nakaka”. Host -Lenyrose Bajar Sunio)

 

Host/Lenyrose: “Ikaw Kaibigan, alam mo ba ang kahulugan ng Bangsamoro, Pilipino, Muslim, At Islam? Alam mo ba kailan, saan dapat gamitin? Alam mo o hindi? Samahan ninyo kami ni Kaka Alih sa ating segment na  Nakaka…..”

 

(PLAY INTRO)

 

Kaka Alih:   “Kilala ko na sila pare”.  sagot kaagad ng isa ng nating kumpare.

 

Sino sila? 

 

“Sila ang mga taga Mindanao, sila ay mga Muslim, hindi kumakain ng baboy”. Paliwanag ni pare.

 

Iyan ba ang tunay na kahulugan ng Bangsamoro?  Ng Muslim? Buweno  ating tatalakayin ang Kahulugan ng Bangsamoro, Pilipino, Muslim at Islam, ang mga kumplikadong mga terms sa ngayon, dahil hindi pa gaanong naiintindihan.

 

Sino ang Pilipino at Bangsamoro?

 

Tunghayan natin ang pagpapaliwanag ng isang manunulat kong sino ang Bangsamoro at Pilipino na sinulat ni Kaka Ali na may titulo na Pilipino at Bangsamoro, Magkapatid? http://dxup.multiply.com/

 

“Ang tinatawag na Pilipino ay yaong mamayan na mga taga Pilipinas, na dinatnan dito ng Kastila, na sumunod sa mga kaugalian, relihiyon o iyong mga napilitang magpasakop sa kapangyarihan ng Kastila, dahil wala ng magawa kundi magpasakop dahil talo sila sa lakas at armas sa pakikipaglaban. Ang ilan sa Pilipino ay ang mga Taga-ilog o Tagalog na taga Bulakan at Maynila, mga Ilokano, Ilonggo, Cebuano at iba pang tribo.

Ang tinatawag naman na Moro ng mga Kastila ay yaong mga mamayan na dinatnan nila na lumalaban sa kanila, at katulad na katulad ng mga ugali, abilidad sa pakikidigma at relihiyon ng mga naging kalaban din nila sa kanilang bansang Espanya, na o mga taga Morocco.

 

Bagamat Moro sa una ang tawag, nitong mga huling panahon ay nadugtongan ng Bangsa na ang kahulugan sa sariling wika natin ng Bangsa ay angkan, kaya naging Bangsamoro na ngayon ang tawag. Nabibilang sa mga tinatawag ngayon na Bangsamoro ay ang tribong M’ranaw, Yakan, Maguindanaon, Iranon, T’duray, Suban’n, Tau Sug at marami pang iba, ang ibang manunulat, tulad ni Prof. Rudy Rodil ay hinati sa sa dalawang kategorya ang Moro, ang Islamized at hindi, o ang ibig sabihin ng Islamized ay tinanggap ang Islam bilang religion at pangalawang kategorya ay nanatili sa kanilang nakaugaliang pananampalataya.”

 

May mahigit sampung mga tribu na kinikila   bilang mga Bangsamoro, ang alam natin dito sa Upi na Bangsamoro ay ang Maguindanaon, Meranao, Iranun,   Tau Sug at marami pang iba.

 

Sino naman ang mga  Muslim?

 

Alam mo kapatid na nakikinig, marami sa atin ang nag-aakala na ang Muslim ay isang taong isinilang mula sa mga magulang na Muslim, o di kaya, siya yaong isinilang sa Mindanao o sa bansa, tulad ng Saudi Arabia na ang nakakarami ay Muslim.

 

Ayon sa ating mga Aleem o Marurunong, ang lahi, kulay, tribo, angkan, o pangalan ay hindi mga batayan upang ang isang tao ay matawag na Muslim.  

 

“Ang Muslim ay ang nilikha ng Allah na Sumusunod, Sumusuko at Tumatalima sa Kanyang mga kautusan. Sa katunayan, hindi lamang tao ang matatawag na Muslim. Maging ang lahat na nilikha ng Allah bukod pa sa tao (katulad ng mga bituin sa kalangitan, ang araw at ang hangin) ay maituturing na Muslim, sapagkat silang lahat ay mga nilikha na sumusunod sa likas na batas na inilagay ng Allah sa kalikasan.

Isang kamalian at hindi kailanman matatanggap ng mga Muslim na tawagin silang mga “ Muhammedan ”, sapagkat ito ay nagbibigay kahulugan ng pagsamba kay Propeta Muhammad (sumakanya nawa ang kapayapaan). Ang Islam ay hindi kailanman nagtuturo ng pagsamba sa Propeta o anumang nilikha lamang ng Allah. Bagkus, ito ay naghihikayat sa tao na sumamba lamang sa tangi at nag-iisang Allah, at nagbabawal sa anumang uri ng pagsamba na iniuukol sa nilikha.” (http://moro.jeeran.com/)

 

Ano naman ang kahulugan ng Islam?

 

Ang kahulugan ng Islam ay pagsuko at pagsunod sa mga kautusan ng Allah nang walang pagtutol.

 

Sa  http://correctme.multiply.com, niliwanag ni Kaka Ali ang terminong Islam at Muslim:

 

“Ang terminong Muslim ay tumutukoy sa tao na naniniwala sa Allah(Poong Maykapal). Na sa simpleng pag-sasalin (translation) ang ibig sabinin nito ay “Naniniwala” (Believer) at sa relihiyong pag-uusap (religious connotation) ang ibig sabihin ay ang taong….. “sumuko sa Dakilang Lumikha” at ang kanyang rehiliyon ay Islam, na ang ibig sabihin naman sa payak (simple translation) na paghuhubad ay Kapayapaan (Sallam). At sa relihiyong pag-tanaw ay… “isinuko ang sarili sa Poong Lumikha” (one who submit to the Will of God)

 

Kapatid sana ay nagkaliwanagan na tayo sa terminong Bangsamoro, Pilipino, Muslim, Islam, sa muli kami ay nag-anyaya sa darating na Lunes, samahan ninyo kami sa ating segment na Nakaka.. sa programang buhay-buhay sa DXUP.. ang segment writer/reporter Kaka Alih. Wasallamu Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.

 

Ito ang inyong kapatid   Kaka Ali ang inyong segment writer at producer,   Sukran, Wassallamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabartakatuh.

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Bakit Nangangaliwa si Mister

October 30, 2009

(October 30,  2009-Biyernes - Script na sinulat ni Alih Anso para sa programang “Buhay –buhay sa DXUP” (7:00-8:00 A.M) sa segment na “Nakaka”. Host -Lenyrose Bajar Sunio)

 

Host/Lenyrose: “Mrs. Problema mo ba ang Mister mo?  Mister bakit ba nangangaliwa ang kumpare mo? Ano man ang kasagutan mo, samahan ninyo kami, magbibigay si Kaka Ali ng ilan dahilan kong bakit nangangaliwa si Mister. 

 

(PLAY INTRO)

 

Kaka Alih:  “Masyado naman “brutal” ang tanong kasamang Leny,  Bakit nangangaliwa si Lalaki, pwede bang mag-suggest?  na   medyo pagaanin natin ng ganito: “bakit tinatabangan si Mister kay Mrs?”

 

(LAUGHING)

 

Teka parang pareho din, ah ganito na lang, sagutin na lang natin ang tanong. Sabi ng kasama ko dito:

 

“Kasi Kaka, lusyang na si Mare” (LAUGHING).

 

Yes huwag pagtawanan, totoo yan, dapat maintain mo ang tamis mo mare, ugaliin na ang paglilinis sa katawan at pagpapabeauty, ganito ang gawin mo… makinig palagi sa wow segment ni Nancy Lawan.

 

“Madaldal masyado ang Mrs ko”. Paliwanag ni Pare.

 

“Hindi marunong magluto ang Mrs ko.” Himutok na sabi ni Mare #2.

 

Ah alam ko na, mare, dapat gilingan mo…(LAUGHING) ay bakit? Ah yes.. galingan mo pala mare ang pagluluto, pag-aralan mo, natutuhan naman iyan eh.,

 

Di ko na kaya.. gusto ko ng magpaputok pero ayaw niya.. kaya kahit snipe snipe na lamang ginawa ko na, para hindi kalawangin si Manoy”., Nakakatawang sagot ni Pare # 4.

 

Mare, bakit kasi, sana nag shooting na lang kayo ni pare.. (LAUGHING)

 

“Kaka, gutom na ako.. kaya nagtagad tagad mo na ako… (LAUGHING) sabi naman ni Kapatid na na dalawang taon nang nasa abroad ang seksi at maganda na Mrs. Kaya hayun dahil gutom na talaga kahit papaano daw ay nagtikim mo na habang hindi pa naluluto .. ay hindi pala.. dumarating si Mrs. (LAUGHING)

 

“Dahil sa pag-ibig” papaano nasisi ang pag-ibig? Ganito iyon Kaka, di ba may kasabihan na: “o pag-ibig na makapangyarihan, pag pumasok sa puso ninuman, hahamakin ang lahat”

Eh di kong ganyan, huwag ka ng mangaliwa, humanan ka na lang.. (LAUGHING)

 

No joke may friend, kong ganyan na pag-ibig na, ay pakasalan mo lamang siya.. huwag kang maki-apid haram iyan.. ganito ang gawin mo, humingi ng payo kay Imaam o kay Ustadz, kong di mo sila kilala makipagkita ka lamang kay Kaka Ali, tutulungan kita, Insha Allah (kong pahihintulotan ng Diyos).

 

 “Alam ninyo mga anak, kaya may Mister na nangangaliwa, dahil kulang sila ng paniniwala sa kanilang Poong Lumikha.” Paliwanag ni Pastor. “Dapat nating mahikayat ang ating mga pamilya sa maging malapit sa Diyos” Dagdag ni Pastor.

 

“Para sa akin, may malaking contribution ang lipunan na ginagalawan natin, kong bakit may nangangaliwa na Mister at pati Mrs.” Sagot ni Ustadz.

 

Papaano masisi ang ating lipunan Ustadz? Tanong ko kaagad.

 

“Ganito iyon, Kaka Ali, kong ang yong lipunan na ginagalawan, ay maluwag halimbawa, pinapayagan ng yong lipunan ang maghahalubilo ng mga lalaki at babae, at tiyak malapit sila sa tukso. Another sample niyan ay pinapayagan natin ang paglipana ng inumin alak na makalasing, pati na ang droga, na alam natin na ito ay nakapag-wawala sa katinuan ng ating pag-iisip, wala na itong idinudulot na  kabutihan ang alak at droga kundi ilapit sa tayo sa mga gawain ni Satanas”. Paliwanag ni Ustadz.

 

Sang-ayon ako kay Ustadz, dahil sa Islam ay Haram ang Alak na makalasing at ang droga. Mabigat ang kaparusahan sa Islam, hindi pinapayagan ang pag-gawa, pagpabili, pagbili, pagiimbak at pag-inom ng alak.

 

Dagdagan ko ang sinabi ni Ustadz, ayon sa Islam, ipinagbabawal ang  paghahalobilo ng babae at lalaki, lalo yaong pwedeng mag-asawahan. Di rin pinapayagan ang pag-papakita ng kahubaran ng babae at lalaki, dahil ito ay mag-tutulak sa atin na mapalapit sa tukso.

 

Dapat ang mga babae ay magsuot  ng marangal na damit, hindi yaong nakikita na ang gustong-gustong ni Lolo (LAUGHING).. Yes diba..dahil masyado body fit ang suot ni Inday ay nakamarka na ang kapal at lapad.ng (LAUGHING) hey please laugh…makipustahan ako.. iyan ang gustong-gustong tingnan ng mga kalalakihan, kasali na si Lolo Tasyo…bakit? dahil iyan ay ipinagbabawal ng Poong Lumikha o ng Allah. At kong ano ang bawal ay siyang masarap kainin at gawin.. oh di  ba? 

 

Please don’t dis-agree… huwag ng kumontra.. dahil pansamatala ko muna itong ititigil at babalik tayo sa Lunes, sa higit pang nakakakilig na  talakayan.. (LAUGHING)

 

Ito ang inyong Lolo ay hindi pala ito ang  inyong segment writer/reporter si Kaka Alih. Wasallamu Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.

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Papaano ang Pagbubuo ng isang Matatag na Pamilya

October 26, 2009

(October 26,  2009-Lunes  script na sinulat ni Alih Anso para sa programang “Buhay –buhay sa DXUP” (7:00-8:00 A.M) sa segment na “Nakaka”. Host -Lenyrose Bajar Sunio)

 

Host/Lenyrose: “Samahan ninyo kami ni Kaka Alih sa ating segment na  Nakaka….dahil ang kanyang tatalakayin ay para sa inyo:  Papaano ang Pagbubuo ng isang Matatag na Pamilya 

 

(PLAY INTRO)

 

Kaka Alih:   Mahalaga ang pamilya dahil ito   ang sentro ng ating lipunan. Ang isang barangay ay binubuo ng bawat pamilya. Kung walang mga pamilya walang barangay, walang bayan, walang lungsod, walang probinsiya, walang rehiyon at walang isang bansa. Nabuuo ang isang bansa mula sa pinagbuklod-buklod na pamilya. Yan ang ilan  sa nga kahalagahan ng isang pamilya.

 

Ang tanong ay Papaano ang Pagbubuo ng isang Matatag na Pamilya?  Bago natin talakayin ang pagbuo ng isang matatag na pamilya ay sagutin muna  natin ang katanungan na: “Ano ang kahulugan ng pamilya para sa yo?   

 

Simple lang iyan Kaka: Si “Tatay, nanay, si ate, si kuya at si bunso, equals isang pamilya”

May mga taong naniniwalang ang isang pamilya ay tulad sa isang   kahong puno ng mga bagay na ipinasok ano gusto mo, nakapaloob dito ang  pagmamahal, katuwaan, kaligayahan  at iba pang magagandang bagay. Ito ay isang kahong mabubuksan kailan mo.

 

Ngunit lalong mainam na ihalintulad natin pamilya sa   walang lamang kahon.  Nagiging maganda at makabuluhan ito batay sa kung ano ang ginagawa natin dito. Kong ano ang gusto mong laman, ay siya mong ilagay.  Ang ibig sabihin nasa iyo nakasalalay ang kinabukasan ng iyong pamilya.

 

Kailangang sidlan muna ito ng laman ng mga tao bago may makuhang anuman mula rito. Kung nais natin ng pagmamahal at katuwaan sa ating mga pamilya, kailangang magtanim muna tayo ng pagmamahal, paglilingkod at paghikayat sa isa’t isa. Kailangan punuin natin ang kahon, at huwag nating ilabas ang laman nito.

 

Matatagpuan sa buong mundo ang maraming matatag na pamilya.  Maaaring mayaman o mahirap sila.  Maaaring iba-iba rin ang pagkakabuo nila, halimbawa: isang ina, ama, at mga anak; o isang ina na may isa o higit pang anak; o  mga lolo’t lolang kasama ng kanilang mga anak at apo, o mag-asawang walang anak. Saan ka man sa mga nabanggit ay bahagi ka ng ating talakayan, kaibigan.

 

Sabi nga nila ang matatatag na pamilya ang pundasyon ng lahat ng dakilang bansa. Tama po ba?  Tumutulong silang humubog ng mga taong magiging duyan ng magandang lipunan. 

 

Ang payo nga ng isang guidance counselor: “Kung kailangan nating lumaking malulusog at maliligaya ang mga anak natin, mahalagang magkaroon tayo ng matatatag na pamilya”

.

Ano ang  kailangan sa pagbubuo ng matatag na pamilya?

 

 Kaibigan para maging matatag ang inyong pamilya, kailangang magkaroon ng sumusunod na katangian ang isang pamilya: may pananagutan  sila sa isa’t isa;  nagpapakita ng pagpapahalaga; may mabuting komunikasyon; may panahong nagkakasama-sama sila; sumusunod sa kanilang mga paniniwalang ispiritwal at umaayon sa kanilang mga pagpapahalaga at nakakaagapay sa stress.

 

Pananagutan  

 

Makatutulong tayong lalong mapatatag ang pamilya sa pagkakaroon ng pananagutan sa isa’t isa,  sa pagiging tapat, sa pagsasama-sama bilang isang grupo, at sa pag-aalaga sa isa’t isa.  Maraming paraan para maipakita ang pananagutan at mapanatiling ligtas, malusog at maligaya ang pamilya.  Halimbawa ay:

  • Maging tapat sa inyong pamilya. Sa puntong sekswal, maging tapat sa kapareha. Bawasan ang mga aktibidad sa labas at gumugol ng mas maraming oras sa piling ng iyong pamilya;
  • Tuparin ang mga pangako sa mga miyembro ng pamilya.
  • Maging maaasahan.  Tumawag o magtext  sa bahay kung mahuhuli ka ng uwi lalo na kong hindi makabalik sa takdang araw ng pag-usi mula sa trabaho.
  • Kung naglakbay ka sa malayo, huwag din kalimutang tumawag at huwag mangingiming  magsabi ng  “mahal kita ikaw lang babae sa aking puso” (PLAY LAUGHING)
  • Kapag may problema,  dumulog  sa isang kamag-anak, kaibigan   , para matulungan kayong harapin ito.

Pagpapahalaga

 

Ipakita  pagpapahalaga sa pamilya sa pamamagitan ng mga salita at gawa, sa ganito ay naipakikita natin sa ating pamilya na pinahahalagahan at itinatangi natin sila. 

  • Sabihin sa isang miyembro ng pamilya na siya ay mahal mo.
  • Kilalalanin ang katangian ng membro ng pamilya. Purihin ng  positibo sa bawat miyembro ng pamilya araw-araw.
  • Dalasan ang pagyakap sa mga miyembro ng pamilya, Ikaw tatay lalo na kay Nanay (PLAY LAUGHING).
  • Tulungan ang isang miyembro ng pamilya sa kanyang gawain ( pagliligpit, paglalaba,  

Pag-agapay

 

Alalahanin walang pamilya ay hindi nagkakaroon ng  problema.  Ngunit gamitin ang problemang ito   para maging lalong matatag ang samahan ng pamilya at maging dam para mapalapit sa isa’t isa.  Kaibigan, makinig ka,  kung medyo babaguhin natin ang ating pag-iisip, makikita nating ang krisis ay isang oportunidad para maging matatag. 

 

Pwede mo itong subukin para isolb ang problema ng iyong pamilya:

  • Mag-isip ng anumang mabuti, gaano man kasama ang sitwasyon.
  • Kunsultahin ang iyong pamilya, magsagawa ng Maswara o meeting.  Sa pamamagitan ng pagsasama-sama ay  malalagpasan ng  pamilya ang kahit pinakamahirap na problema.
  • Harapin ang mga problema nang dahan-dahan.  Gumawa ng listahan ng mga bagay na dapat gawin at isa-isang asikasuhin ito.
  • Mag-ehersisyo para mawala ang tensiyon at matulungan kayong magrelaks.  Gawin ito nang magkakasama bilang isang pamilya.

Kapamilya  muli ninyo kaming samahan   sa ating segment na Nakaka.. sa programang buhay-buhay sa DXUP.. ito ang inyong kapamilya ang inyong segment writer/reporter si Kaka Alih. Wasallamu Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.

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Updates: OFW– Philippines

September 5, 2009



  September 5, 2009

   

(Alih Anso- September 5. 2009 Radio DXUP-FM, Upi, Mindanao, Philippines)

Filipinos are referred to as “Overseas Filipino Workers” or “OFWs”. The term “Global Filipino” is another term of more recent vintage but less widely used.

OFW dubbed as the country’s modern day heroes, and contribute a lot to the nation’s growth and development.  They have to leave their own families to work abroad as professionals, engineers, office and factory workers and often as domestic helpers.

OFWs today has a total workforce of 747,696 where land based workers are 559,227 and sea based workers 188,469.

Each year, more than a million Filipinos leave to work abroad through overseas employment agencies and other programs, including government sponsored ones.

Others emigrate and become permanent residents of other countries. Overseas Filipinos  work as doctors, physical therapists, nurses, accountants, IT professionals, engineers, architects, entertainers, technicians, teachers, military servicemen, students, caregivers, domestic helpers and often as a  household maids (or domestic helper - DH).

According to a former Domestic helper (DH) their employer paid US$ 7,000 to her agency,  a legalized human trafficking?

Human trafficking in the country is becoming worst as the  reports says:  “…. that the Philippines is fast-becoming a transit point for international human trafficking. A reason why a member of House of representative seeking for investigation of the issue”.

The issue of www.philstar.com July 17, 2009, quoting Congressman  Jonathan Dela Cruz said the recent arrests of foreigners using fake passports and fake travel documents confirm reports that the country is being used as a transit point for human trafficking.

The hotspot provinces in Mindanao reportedly include Cotabato, Maguindanao, and Davao.

But Vice Mayor Abdullah P. Salik Jr. Al Haj currently chairman of Regional Anti-Human Trafficking in ARMM, does not confirm nor deny the data release to media.

“Maybe before 2007, there were reported incidents but we are waiting for the official reports from the concerned agencies” Salik added.

The number of human trafficking cases in the Philippines doubled in the first half of 2009, a non-government organization said Wednesday.

The Visayan Forum Foundation, Inc. (VFFI) said that in 2008, 90 human trafficking cases were lodged before Philippine courts. From January to June in 2009, or only six months, the number jumped to almost 200.

Mrs Malou Diestro, Department of Social Welfare (DSWD)  worker assigned in Upi said:  “…lots of reported human trafficking in Upi, few years ago”.

“We have some cases which can be considered as  human trafficking  but we can reveal it to media for the protection of victims..” a revelation from PO2 Margie  Pahati, Philippine National Police (PNP) in charge of Violence Against Women & Children    (VAWC) assigned in Upi, Maguindanao.

One of the “modus operandi” of recruitment agency, let the “victim” signed a contract as domestic helper in other countries, in which she/he will received a salary of 400 US $, but before he left the country her agency will let her signed a sub-contract (not registered to Philippine government) in which stating she will just received a salary of 150-200 US $. In which no one of the recruited migrant worker reported to the authority, because they need the money.

“Kapit sa patalim” (holds a blade knife), because of poverty.  they just accept the offer for human survival .

They were recruited by members of syndicates, processing and documentation of their employment abroad was facilitated by corrupt civil servants.

According to the reports  of 2008 Country Review on Human Rights Practices in East Asia and the Pacific by the United Stated Department, reported that Filipino women and children who were victimized were forced to work as household, factory and sex workers.

The unstable economic and political situation in the Philippines is one of the major causes why Filipinos prefer to work abroad. Filipino workers could not see any hope from their leaders to achieve prosperity for the country.

Various recommendation from various sectors were recommended for the stopping or eradicating  this in-human act.

Human trafficking should be taught in school as suggest by National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) executive.

If this NBI chief agent had his way, the problem of human trafficking and how not to be caught in the traffickers’ snares would be discussed among schoolchildren.

“Law enforcers should go to primary and secondary schools to educate kids, especially young girls, on human trafficking,” said Ferdinand Lavin, chief of the National Bureau of Investigation’s Anti-Human Trafficking Division.

“The campaign should be focused on grades five to high school because these minors are often the target of syndicates,” he added in a recent informal chat with reporters. He said the campaign should be mounted with the help of Department of Education officials.

“We should strengthen the preventive aspect, perhaps by information dissemination,” he said. “IACAT (Inter-agency Council Against Trafficking) should also map out where the victims came from and focus on info dissemination in that particular area.”

In Upi, Maguindanao, particular in community radio-DXUP FM,  advocacy program in combating human trafficking was adopted . Regular airing  of anti-human trafficking plugs and incorporating topics to talk show programs, like: Udto na Adi, Suara Talainged, Kaadat-adatan were practiced regularly.

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Pakikikapitbahay (Neighborhood)

September 4, 2009


(September 4,  2009-Biyernes- Script na sinulat ni Alih Anso para sa programang “Buhay –buhay sa DXUP” (7:00-8:00 A.M) sa segment na “Nakaka”. Host -Lenyrose Bajar Sunio)

 

Host:  “Ang kapitbahay ang katuwang sa lahat ng oras ng pangangailangan, mahihigitan pa nito ang iyong tunay na kapatid, ang kapitbahay ang unang makakapagbigay ng tulong sa iyong pangangailangan?”

 

(PLAY INTRO)

 

Kaka Alih:  Papaano ba kayo makikapitbahay?

 

“Ako Kaka Alih, gusto kong may kapitbahay, kaya lang kong minsan may kapitbahay na hindi tao, asal hayop.” pagkukuwento ng isang respondent.

 

Sabagay totoo naman na marami tayong kapitbahay na hindi tao, pero ang pag-uusapan natin kaibigan ay tao, katulad natin.

 

“Ang ibig kong sabihin Kaka, totoong tao kaya lang ang ugali asal hayop.” Paliwanag ni Pare.

 

Kayo na mga nakikinig, anong kapitbahay  ang ayaw ninyong maging kalapit bahay?

 

“Ako ayaw kong kapitbahay na kapag nalasing  ay nanggugulo, ang ingay-ingay at inaaway pa ang asawa, kong ako lang ang masusunod ipapabilanggo ko ang ganoong tao.” Pangalawang respondent na nainterview natin.

 

“Para sa akin, ayaw ko ang kapit bahay na hindi niya nirerespeto ang aming privacy, biruin mo nakabili lang ng karaoke, akala mo sa kanya na ang buong lugar, kong magpatugtog ba naman akala mo nasa loob ng disco, nakakatulili sa tainga ang lakas ng sounds.”

 

Pero kaibigan may kapitbahay na gustong gusto ng kanyang kapitbahay.

 

Tulad ng kuwento ni Mare: “Ang aming kapit-bahay na hindi naman namin kamag-anak, ang tumulong para madala sa doctor  ang aming anak, ng mag convulsion”

 

“Ang nagustuhan ko na kapitbahay lalo na sa ganitong panahon ng Ramadan ay Muslim.” Pahayag ng isang nakapanayam natin at naitanong ko sa kanya bakit?

 

“Pag Ramadan, nagluluto sila ng mga pagkain na masasarap, at di man kami nag-aayuno at Muslim ay binibigyan nila kami ng kanilang mga niluluto, kaya kami pag ganitong panahon ng Ramadan, di ko napinabibili ang mga anak ko ng baboy, dahil nagpapahtid din ako n gaming naluto.” Patuloy niyang kuwento.

 

“Magandang may kapitbahay, dahil kahit wala kayong pamilya, may tagabantay ka.” Paliwanag naman ni Mare.

 

 Ako Leny, di ako mapalagay na wala kaming kapitbahay, ang kapitbahay mo ang siya mong malapit na kamag-anak, hindi yaong kapatid sa dugo at laman na napakalayo, dahil hindi ka naman nila matutulungan sa oras ng pangangailangan. Ikaw Leny, anong masasabi mo sa iyong kapitbahay?

 

LENYROSE:_______________________________________

 

Ikaw kapatid, kaibigan, kumusta ang iyong kapitbahay? Mabait ka ba sa kanya?  

 

Sa panahon ni Propeta Muhammad SAW ay may kuwento na Siya ay kapatid na hindi Muslim, dahil sa ayaw niya sa relihiyon ni Muhammad, ay araw araw na tinatapunan niya ng basura ang bakuran ng Propeta, ngunit hindi siya inaaway ng Propeta, nililinis na lamang ito araw-araw. Minsan isang araw walang basurang naitapon, kaya nagtaka ang Propeta, at may nagsabi na may sakit ang Hudeo. Binisita ng Propeta, kaya takot na takot ang lalaki, ang akala niya paghihigatihan siya, ngunit hindi pala, dahil sinabi ng Propeta Muhamad SAW na ganoon ang katuruan ng Islam, maging mabait sa iyong kapitbahay.

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Paano Maipapakita Pagmamahal Sa mga Magulang?

September 3, 2009

September 3, 2009

(September 3,  2009-Martes- Script na sinulat ni Alih Anso para sa programang “Buhay –buhay sa DXUP” (7:00-8:00 A.M) sa segment na “Nakaka”. Host -Lenyrose Bajar Sunio)

 

Host:  “Maraming paraan ng pagpapakita ng pagmamahal sa magulang, ikaw papaano ka magpakita ng pagmamahal sa kanila?”

 

(PLAY INTRO)

 

Kaka Alih:  Yes alam ko , maraming paraan ng pagpapakita ng pagmamahal sa magulang. Papaano nga ba?

 

(BRIDGE MUSIC)

 

Una, puwede mong ipakita ang pamamgitan ng material. Alam natin na its payback time o araw ng pagbabayad sa magulang ngunit hindi natin obligasyon na ibalik kung ano man ang naitulong sa atin ng magulang natin paglaki natin. But in our own little way, tulungan natin ang mga magulang natin especially kung wala naman silang pagkukunan ng ikinabubuhay, lalo na kong matatanda na sila.

 

Pangalawa, give your time, to be with them, bigyan mo rin sila ng iyong oras. Kahit hindi sabihin ng parents natin, masaya silang makikita tayo  lalot    kung magkakalayo kayo ng lugar na tinitirhan.  Lalot may mga apo na sila sa inyo, gustong-gustong nilang makasama ang kanilang mga apo, mas higit pa sa kayo noong mga maliliit pa kayo. Maniwala ka, dahil ako na ito, experience at naranasan ko…

 

Ang pangatlo, to love our children as how our parents loved us. Ito na siguro ang painakamagandang paraan upang maipakita natin ang pagmamahal sa ating mga magulang.

 

“Para sa akin Kaka Alih heto ang advice ko sa mga may magulang pa, maging showy kayo ng pagmamahal sa paents niyo, palagi niyong sabihin na mahal niyo sila, marami namang paraan ng pagsasabi .  Doon sa  sa mga nakabukod na ng pamilya, make it a point na every week mapuntahan niyo sila and masabayan niyo sa pagkain sabay kwentuhan, malaking bagay sa kanila yun”. ito ang bahagi ng paliwanag ng isang kumpare na patay na ang tatay, nanay na lang ang buhay.

 

Heto ang kuwento ng isa nating respondents: “…ako ma ma-pride ako noon sa magulang.  Iyong bang tipong binabalewala ko lang sila,  Totoo Kaka, ganun  ako dati, hindi ko alam kung bakit parang ang hirap hirap kong masabi sa kanila na mahal na mahal ko sila. Para bang   nahihiya   akong sabihin sa kanila na mahal ko sila o sadyang hindi ko naman sila ganun ka mahal….. yun ang iniisip ko dati.

 

Sayang Kaka, ngayun ko lang napagtanto na mahal kop ala talaga sila ng pumaanaw na silang pareho. Sayang huli na ang lahat. Ngayon ko lang napagtanto na mahal ko pala sila.   Naisip ko na  dala lang siguro ng kahirapan sa buhay kaya noon parang sinisisi ko pa sa kanila kung bakit naghihirap kami at wala kaming makain. Heto pa ang nakakahiya   naisip ko..sabi ko sasarili ko noon, sana pwede akong makapili ng magulang ko,,, kung makakapili lang ako hindi sila ang pipililin kong maging magulang. Pero iba na ngayun ako na gumgawa ng paraan para makaahon kami sa kahirapan..at mahal na mahal ko pala  ang aking mga magulang.. saying nga lamang dahil wala na sila.. dito ko na lamang ibinubuhos ang pagmamahal ko sa aking mga anak at apo.

 

Mga Kapatid na nakikinig, kong may magulang pa kayo, bumawi kayo, habang buhay pa sila, kong wala na, ipakita ninyo at ituro sa inyong mga anak at apo papaano magmahal sa magulang, hindi lang sinasabi, pinakikita at pinaparandam.

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Pagpili ng Kursong Kukunin sa Kolehiyo

September 2, 2009



(September 2,  2009-Martes- Script na sinulat ni Alih Anso para sa programang “Buhay –buhay sa DXUP” (7:00-8:00 A.M) sa segment na “Nakaka”. Host -Lenyrose Bajar Sunio)

 

Host:  Sigorado ka na ba sa kursong kukunin mo pagkagraduate mo? , ikaw na Pare/Mare nakapili nab a si Adi o si Awi ng Kurso pagka-college?”

 

(PLAY INTRO)

 

Kaka Alih: “Makinig my friend, pare at mare, alam mo ba na ang pagkakataong makapag-aral sa kolehiyo at pumili ng kursong kukunin ay hindi dapat ihalintulad sa pagpili ng bibilhing damit na susuotin para sa isang espesyal na okasyon at kapag hindi mo nakursunadahan ang damit na nabili ay puwede mong hubarin at ibalik sa pinagbilihan o di kaya ay bawiin ang perang ipinang-bili, hindi ito maari, dahil ang oras na iyong nagamit ay hindi na  maibabalik pa.

 

Papaano kong sa kalagitnaan ng semestre ay saka nalaman na hindi pala angkop sa iyo ang kursong kinukuha? Hindi mo na pwedeng bawiin ang naenrol mo, marefund mo man dahil malakas ka sa administration, dahil lahi kayo ng mga VIP, papaano ang oras mo na naguguol mo  di na  maibabalik.

 

Ang pag-aaral ng isang kurso sa kolehiyo ay hindi lang ginagastusan ng salapi kundi pinagugulan din ito ng lakas at oras. Ang salapi, lakas at oras ay ang mga importanteng yaman sa buhay ng isang tao at hindi na naibabalik kapag nagamit kayat kung sasayangin mo ang mga ito dahil lamang sa iyong pagwawalang-bahala ay maaring sagad sa iyong buto ang madadamang pag-sisisi pagdating ng panahon.

 

Alalahaninm, ang pag-aaral ng isang kurso sa kolehiyo ay magiging bahagi na ng inyong buhay. Alam mo my Friend,  pwede itong ihalintulad sa pagpili ng mapapangasawa. Isipin mo kung ang mapapangasawa mo eh pinakasalan mo lang dahil sa yaman niya o di kaya ay sa udyok lang ng magulang o kaibigan mo pero ang buo niyang pagkatao ay malayung-malayo sa hinahangad mong maging asawa, sa palagay ko alin lang sa dalawa ang gagawin mo, makipaghiwalay o mag-sisi habang buhay.

 

Walang pinagkaiba sa pagpili ng kurso, kung ang kurso mong pinili ay kinuha mo dahil sa ito ang sikat ngayon at maraming makukuhang trabaho kahit na malayo sa iyong interes, paano na kung dumating ang panahong nalaos na ito at na-ngaunti na ang mga kumpanyang naghahanap ng nagtapos ng kurso mong kinuha (na ayaw mo naman)? Ibig ba nitong sabihin ay tapos na ang maliligayang araw mo?

 

Natatandaan ko ang sinabi sa akin ng Tatay ko na… “Ting, Mas mahirap tiisin ang pag-sisisi kesa sa lungkot”……………

 

Uulitin ko na sa pagpili ng isang profession ay wala itong iniwan sa pagpili ng mapapangasawa tulad ng nasabi ko nung una,(pwedeng kumuha ng isa pang kurso pagkagraduate, tulad ng pag-aasawa pwedeng mag-asawa muli, ngunit huwag hiwalayan ang una, ehe ang ibig kong sabihin tapusin mo na ang kurso bago kumuha ng iba… ay ano bay an nagkalitolito na tayo..

 

(PLAY LAUGHING WOMAN)

 

Tandaan sa paglipas ng panahon tatanda kayong parehas at maaring ang sekswal na interaksyon ay hihina na,( yes ganoon hihiona si manoy.. ehe.. heindi si Tatang) (PLAY LAUGHING WOMAN)… ang mga material na bagay ay hindi na ganoong kaakit-akit sa inyong dalawa at ang pinaka magiging pundsyon na magtataguyod sa inyong mag-asawa ay ang mabuting relasyon at pagmamahalan. Halos pareho sa profession o kursong kukunin mo sa kolehiyo, dadating ang panahon na maaring kuntento ka na sa mga material na bagay o parangal.

 

Pero ang hilig mo o passion sa ginagawa mo ang mananatiling magtutulak sa iyo para magtrabaho, sa puntong ito ay magtratrabaho ka hindi dahil ang pangunahin mong layunin ay kumita ng pera kundi ginagawa mo ito dahil ito ang gusto mong gawin sa buhay at lumalabas na hindi na ito trabaho kundi libangan, libangan na kung saan ay kumikita ka narin ng salapi.

 

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Mga Hadlang sa Kaunlaran (Hindrance to Development)

June 23, 2009

June 22, 2009

Alih S. Anso – June 22, 2009
Kaunlaran sa sarili, sa mamayan, sa bayan, kultura at kaugalian, kaunlaran sa kanilang paniniwala,  ang lahat ng anggulo ng mga nababanggit  ay dapat tataas ang antas nito para mapabilang sa sinasabi nating kaunlaran.

May mga kaunlaran na sa mga pisikal na anyo lamang, nakikita. Halimbawa nito ay ang mga pag-usbong ng mga malalaki at matataas na building, tulad halimbawa sa Makati City,  ay sasabihin na natin na mauland na ang Makati.

Bawat tribu, bansa at henerasyon ay may sariling pananaw sa sinasabing kaunlaran. Ano bang bansa ngayon sa mundo ang maulad? America? Japan? Singapore?

Ayon sa mga malalayo ang pananaw o malaki ang anking talino o sa madaling salita matatalinong tao, “May pag-unlad ang kanilang pisikal na kaunyuhan, ngunit sira naman ang kanilang moralidad, nawawala ang kanilang pananampalataya sa Diyos”

Ito ang basehan natin sa mga ipapahayag natin na mga  hadlang sa Pag-unlad ng Sambayanan o Kaunlaran na minimithi ng bawat tao sa mundong ito na punong-puno ng pagkukunwari.

1.    Sistema ng goberno (system of government)

Bawat tribu o bansa ay may kinamulatan, nakaugalian at pinaniniwalaan na sistema ng kanyang pamamahala sa sariling pamilya, tribu o bansa.

Kadalasan, ang nangyayari ay iniinsist o ipinipilit natin na ito ang tamang sistemang ng pamahalaan ang nararapat sa isang bansa, isang rehiyon o tribu. Ang halimbawa nito ay ang Pilipinas, ang nilimbag na sistema ng pamahalaan (system of government) ng  Amerika  sa atin ay isang experiment lamang, dahil ang kanilang sisetma ay di katulad ng kanilang nilmbag para sa mga Pilipino. Sa America ay hinati hati sa estado (state) at bawat estado ay may sariling system na angkop sa kanilang mamayan.

Sa Pilipinas ngayon ay nahati-hati ang mga pinuno (leader) natin kong anong sistimang goberno ang paiiralin. Ang iba ay nagsusulong na panatilihin ang kasalukuyang sistema na ang presidente ay separate sa legislature, ang iba naman ay parliamentary system, ang iba tulad ni Nene Pementel. Ayon sa balita, ang    Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. ay nag- filed Joint Resolution 10 na may mungkahi (proposal) na magpapalit tayo ng mula sa  presidential patungo sa  parliamentary system ng government. Ito ay sinuportahan ng ibang senador. ( Manuel Villar Jr., Edgardo Angara, Pia Cayetano, Juan Ponce Enrile, Francis Escudero, Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada, Gregorio Honasan, Panfilo Lacson, Francis Pangilinan and Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr.)

Ayon kay Chiz Escudero: “Ang sistema ng goberno   ay isang paraan lamang ng pagbibigay ng serbisyo sa mamayan at hinahati ito sa kanya kanyang aspeto at nasasakupan, hindi na natin kailangan magpalit ng gobyerno kundi ang magkaroon lang ng tamang implementasyon ng mga polisiya na para sa mamayan,”.

Wala daw sa sistema ng goberno ang ikaayos kundi sa pagpapatupad at pamamalakad ng isang lider.

2.    Pinuno (leadership)

May sinabi si Senador Ecudero: “SA LIDER BA  SA SISTEMA BA NG GOBYERNO  O SA MAMAMAYAN”…  ang kaularan ng Bansa?

May nagsasabi na: “sa pinuno ng Bansa (presidente) nakasalalay ang pagkakaroon ng malinaw at malawak na pagkakaintindi sa hinaharap na pamumuhay ng bawat isa sa ating bansa, tayong mga pilipino ay may ugaling asa kung saan ay palagi nating tinitignana ang lider na simbulo ng katatagan at may paninindigan para sa pangkalahatan…ngunit kapag ang ating pinuno ay me mga isyung kinahaharap na walang kasagutan at puro pagbabalat kayo tayo ay nadadala na at imbis na katigan ay ating isinasawalangbahala na lamang dahil sa kapangyarihan nya, na kung tutuusin ay tayo rin dapat ang mag alis sa kanya….”.

Ayon sa  isang leader ng bansa: “ isang lider na na may paninindigan, tapat sa pangkahalatan polisiya ng pamamalakad”

Ayon kay Michael “Mike” Mastura (dating congressman at ngayon ay member ng MILF peace panel): “….ang kailangan sa leader ay may political will”.

Ang ibig sabihin nito ay lider na may paninindigan sa sarili, hindi basta-basta ma-psy-war ng kanyang kalaban, hindi nagdadalawang isip na ipatupad ang alam niyang tama.

Sabi ng isang retired na guro at politician: “Mamayan ang syang sandigan ng isang bansa para sa kanyang kaunlaran. Kailangan iwasan ang lagayan, usigin ang lumalabag sa batas, at higit sa lahat palakasin natin ang pananampalataya sa Diyos”.

3.    Edukasyon-

Ang edukasyon ay hadlang sa kaunlaran kong ito ay hindi angkop sa paniniwala ng mga mamayan, ang mga tinuturo nito. Kinakailangan ang tamang disinyo (design) mga curriculum para sa mga bata, na angkop sa kanilang kultura at paniniwala. Kinakailangan  na linangin ang  kanilang kamulatan sa “moral values” na kailangan paniniwala, upang hindi tumino sa kanilang isip at matanim sa kanilang puso at damdamin.

Kinakalilangan din na maitama ang pag-iisip ng mga kabataan kong papaano gagamitin ang karunungan na kanilang natutunan, lalo na sa makabagong imbensyon. Dahil mawawalan ang saysay ang  mga pagsusulong na binsagang: “Edukasyon Tungo sa Kaunlaran”.

Ako, ikaw, tayo ay nangangarap na maging propesyunal sa darating na panahon upang marahil ay makatulong naman tayo sa ating magulang at nakakabatang kapatid o kaya naman ay  makiisa sa pagsulong at pag-unlad ng daigdig.

Sa panahong ito, tapang, tiyaga, talino at paniniwala sa itaas ang kailangan. Hindi sapat na makatapos ka lamang ng kolehiyo, kailangan ang patuloy na pag-aaral para sa kaunlaran.

Mga kaibigan, nasa COMPUTER AGE na po tayo ngayon, makabago at moderno ang teknolohiya. Kung ating iisipin, sadyang mabilis ang pagsulong natin. Subalit sa isang sulok ng aking pag-iisip ay nagtatanong.

“Kaunlaran nga bang matatawag ang dulot ng edukasyon sa ngayon?”

Kasi nga nariyan ang mataas na antas ng teknolohiya subalit mataas na antas din ng suliraning kinakaharap ng ating bansa. Halimbawa nito   maalaala ba ninyo ang millenium bug o Y2K? Noon  ang pagkasira ng mga computer sa taong 2000. Ang patuloy na imbensyon ng mga gamit pandigma,  na ang bunga sa sanlibutan ay   pagkasira ng ating kinabukasan, o pagkagunaw ng mundo.

Payo ni Ustadz (ayaw ipabanggit ang pangalan): “Bakit hindi natin gamitin ang katalinuhan sa paggawa ng mga bagay na ayon sa ikabubuti ng lahat, hindi upang maging tanyag at kilalanin ng buong mundo. Bakit hindi natin isipin ang susunod na henerasyon.”

Maranasan pa kaya ng ating susunod na henerasyon  ang kaginhawahan at kaunlaran  pagdating ng panahon kung ang ninanais ng ating mga henyo ay makapagpabagsak ng ekonomiya ng iba upang tanghalin at kilalaning pinakamatalino at pinakamataas?

Nakalulunos isipin na ang dulot ng kaunlaran sa edukasyon ay ang pagbagsak at maling layunin. Kung ating sasariwain, tunay na nga ba  tayong maunlad. Bakit ko naitanong  iyan?

Nariyan ang mga ATM’s na isang pindot mo lang ay pera na, mga computer na sasagot sa marami mong katanungan kahit sa pag-aaral, mga cellular phones, mga remote control na sasakyan at ang huli’y ang napapabalitang micro o computer chips na kapag napalagay sa kanang kamay o sa noo ay di na kailangan ng salapi sapagkat mabibili mo na ng anumang nais bilihin– ang tawag diyan ay cashless society.

Nakapangingilabot isipin, dahil sa labis na kaalinuhan ng tao, ang Diyos na makapangyarihan ay kinakalaban na ng tao. Pilit na binagago ang  mga nilalang ng Diyos. Pinapalitan ang kasarian, nagkamali ba ang Diyos?

Ang mga Kabataan sa ngayon  ang susunod na henyo ng darating na panahon, susundan ba natin ang yapak ng naunang henyo?

Hindi masama ang pag-unlad kung layunin ay para sa ikabubuti ng tao at hindi pansarili lamang.

Sa panahong ito, kailangang bukas ang ating isipan sa anumang teknolohiya na pumapasok sa bansa mula sa silangan at kanluran at ibang panig ng daigdig upang hindi tayo madaya ninuman. Isang hamon ang nais kong iwanan sa bawat kabataan–saan mo nais gamitin ang iyong talino –sa kabutihan? sa katanyagan? sa pansarili lang ba? na sa bandang huli’y siguradong pagsisihan mo?.

Mga kaibigan ang tunay na Edukasyon tungo sa kaunlaran, ay ang mga imbensyong hindi nakasisira sa kalikasan at sangkatauhan o ni nagiging sanhi ng karahasan.

4.    Kultura at Kaugalian

Dahil sa kultura at kaugalian na iba-iba ay isa sumasagabal sa ating kaunlaran, kaya, nararapat na maintindihan natin ang mga kultura at kaugaliang ito ng bawat tribu upang ating mabigyan pansin at respeto. Palagi nating bigyan ng consideration  sa ating pag-mumungkahi at pagpapatupad ng mga batas ang kultura at kaugalian.

5.    Peace & Condition

Kinakailangan natin alamin ang punot dulo ng mga kaguluhan, hindi lamang sa kanyang kasalukuyang dahilan kundi ang pinakaugat nito.

Halimbawa nito ay peace at order na lumalabo dito sa atin bansa. Ang palaging tinitingnan ng karamihan ay ang dahilan ay ang kasalukuyang    pinagmulan ng gulo, hindi tiningtingnan ang pinaka-ugat nito. Para sa mga Bangsamoro ang dahilan ay ang Justice na hindi naipapagkalob sa kanila.

(Script  na sinulat ni Alih Anso-program Director para sa   radio program na  “Bantay Bayan  Boses ng  Sambayanan” sa segment na “Bantay  Kaunlaran.  script writer/segment  producer at   anchor:   7:00-8:00-June 22, 2009)

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"Kahapon, Ngayon at Bukas"

April 24, 2009

Alih Anso- April 23, 2009……..

Nagmamadali akong maghanap ng topics na tatalakayin sa community program na Bantay Bayan Boses ng Sambayanan sa segment na Bantay Kalusugan (dahil wala ang regular anchor na si Miss Lenyrose Bajar na nag-leave para sa nalalapit na kasal sa April 27, 2009, sa mapalad na lalaking si Marlon Sunio).  Agad binuksan ang Google search engines, type ang “kalagayan sakit TB alam ba ninyo ang lumabas? isa doon ang dxup. blogspot.com ang naturang blog ay hindi ko na ina update.. ngunit mayroon pala ako doon makukuhang magagandang mga information.. heto share ko sa inyo…..sulat kayAte Bai (Bai Zuhiera Sali Kanakan)

Saturday, June 03, 2006

Feature>>>

DXUP FM Radio Program-”Kahapon, Ngayon at Bukas”
(isa mga daang liham na tinanggap ng KNB-6:00-7:00 PM every Saturday)

Aug 12, 2005

Para sa iyo Ate Bai ,

Napansin ko nitong mga nakaraang mga linggo pawang mga kabataan ang nagpapadala ng liham kasaysayan sa inyo kaya naisip ko na ipadala ang aking landas ng lumipas at dahil dito ay dahan-dahan kong gugunitain at sasariwain ang aking mga bakas ng lumipas na hinding hindi ko makakalimutan. Upang sa ganoon ay kahit papaano ay nagbabasakaling, makapagbigay aral sa madlang nakikinig sa iyong walang kamatayang programang kahapon, ngayon at bukas. At heto unti-unti kong hahabiin ang tabing ng aking kasaysayan Ate Bai, ako’y isang Meranaw, ngunit dito na ako lumaki sa probinsiya ng Maguindanao at di mo mahahalata sa aking pananalita na ako’y isang Meranaw.

Noong bago magsimula ang gulo sa ating lugar, sa lupa ng pangako, sa lupang tinubuan, lupa ng mga katutubong Bangsamoro, ito ang lupang Mindanaw.

Noon ay doon pa kami sa may parte ng Parang poblacion, nakatira, at ang tangi naming ikinabubuhay ay ang mga paninda ng aking mga magulang na mga sari-sari, tulad ng makikita ninyong madalas na paninda ng mga Meranaw, sa may mga bangketa ng Upi, sa hindi pagmamalaki Ate Bai, kami ay may pag-mamay-ari na medyo kalakihan ang stock na paninda, dahil nga napakasipag ng aking mga magulang, halos lahat ng mga palengke,ay pinupuntahan nila upang magtinda, tulad sa palengke sa Teba, Sarakan, Buldon., Sila ay nagtitinda roon at kong minsan marami-rami rin ang kanilang naibebenta, dahil nga sa marami na silang naging suki o kaibigan sa mga nasabing bayan. Ngunit ang lahat ng ito’y nagiging pansamantala lamang dahil natigil ito ng magbakbakan na ang mga rebelde o mga Mujiahideen sa may Matanog at Buldon. Kong kaya dito na lamang sina ama nagtinda sa may Poblacion ng Parang, ngunit dahil maraming kaibigan si ama sa mga lugar na madalas na may enkuwentro, di maiwasan na di nila hingian ng tulong, tulad ng bigas at mga gamot, at ito ang naging sanhi na masuspect o mapaghinalaan ng military si ama na isa na ring rebelde.

At tandang tanda ko pa Ate Bai, ng kunin at sapilitang isakay ng mga nakasakay sa sasakyan na top down at ang nakasakay ay pawang armado, at mula sa araw na iyon hanggang ngayon ay di na namin nakita si ama, pinuntahan ni ina ang lahat ng kampo militar, ngunit parang bula na naglaho si ama. At dahil sa pangayayaring ito, kami ay nagsimulang maghirap sa buhay, dahil di na maasikaso ni ina ang aming paninda dahil may maliit pa akong kapatid na dumididi pa sa kanya. At di naman ako makapagbantay sa aming tindahan dahil nag-aaral ako, at grade 3 pa ako noon Ate Bai. Ngunit pinipilit ni ina na makapagtinda siya para lamang may pantawid gutom kami at dahil doon napipilitan siyang iwanan si bunso, sa kapatid kong babae na hindi pa nakapagaral sa grade one dahil nga sa nataon pa sa pagkawala ni ama at siya ang nagsilbing tagabantay sa aming bunsong kapatid.  At dahil sa kong minsan ay nakakaligtaan pakainin ng aking ina ang aming kapatid na bunso, siya ay nagkasakit at di na siya gumaling at tuluyang ng iginopo ng kanyang karamdaman ang kanyang murang katawan, at siya’y binawian ng buhay at ito’y labis na dinamdam ng aming ina, at siya’y nagkasakit at ng pa check-up namin sa doktor sa health center ng Parang, ay TB, oo Kaka Bai, TB ang naging sakit ni ina, at sabi ng doctor dahil sa pagod at gutom ang dahilan kong bakit siya dinapuan ng sakit na TB, ngunit anong magagawa namin,at talagang mahirap lang kami,

Sa una ay paliit na ng paliit ang paninda ni inay, dahil lahat ng benta ni inay ay napuponta na lamang sa pang-araw-araw naming pangangailangan at dahil sa aming kahirapan na natatamasa ay napilitang akong huminto sa pag-aaral Ate Bai, at tumulong na lamang ako sa paghahanap buhay. Ang ginawa ko ay maaga pa ay pumupunta ako sa pantalan sa may Bacolod upang mamingwit ng isda at kong pinapalad na may mahuli, ay ibinibinta ko sa mga bahay bahay, at pag maliwanag na at dumating na ang mga mangingisda mula sa laot ako ay tumutulong maghakot ng isda, bagaman, mas malaki pa sa akin ang mga kahon ng isda na hinahakot namin, ako ay nagtitiis kahit mahirap at kong minsan gutom ang aking palaging kalaban, dahil di pa ako umaalmusal dahil wala pa akong bayad mula sa mga may ari ng isda, kong minsan pa nga ay isda ang bayad lang nila sa akin at ito naman ang nilalako sa mga bahay bahay sa may town site at kong minsan sa kampo ng mga Philippine constabulary, noon, sa may camp parang, sa may making. Kong tanghali na ay naghahanap ako ng nagpapaigib ng tubig dahil medyo may kahirapan ang supply ng tubig sa may poblacion, kariton ang ginagamit ko at pakonti-konti kong hinahakot sa mga bahay dahil di ko kaya ang isang latang tubig, ang ginagawa ko Ate Bai, may balde akong maliit na kayang kong hakotin at ito ang dahan dahan kong panghakot. Sa awa naman ng Allah nakakain kami ng tatlong beses, bagamat kong minsan ay kanin at reject na mga isda na lamang ang aming tanging ulam.

Ngunit may mas matindi pa pangyayari dumating sa aming buhay Ate Bai, dahil medyo mainit na ang mga bakbakan sa kabila kabila, may sa Landasan, Parang, sa may Matingen, sa may Orandang, sa may Barira at Teba kong minsan dito na sa may kampo uno, malapit na sa kampo ng mga Philippine Constabulary o PC, ay mainit na sa amin na mga Bangsamoro, ang mga Kristiyano na tinatawag nilang Ilaga, kaya natakot ang aming mga kamag anak at kami ay kanilang kinuha sa poblacion at doon nila kami pinatira sa aming mga kamag anak, sa Kidama, Parang Maguindanao.

Ok naman dito ang ikinabubuhay namin. Sumasama ako sa pangingisda sa laot, por sento o hati hati kami ang sharing, at kong panahon ng panghuhuli ng bangus fry, dito kami medyo nagkakapera at kahit papaano ay nakakabili kami ng mga bagong damit, ngunit ang lahat ng ito’y may katapusan, di nagtagal ay inatak din ang Kidama, ng mga sundalong Pilipino, ang mga Mujiahideen na nakakampo malapit sa amin, at kami ang unang naapektohan Ate Bai, at syempre bakwet naman kami, kaya, doon na kami nagbakwet sa may Malabang Lanao del sur, dahil sa panahon na iyon ay tahimik ang lugar ng Malabang, walang gulo.

Doon na kami tumira sa tabing dagat , sa may bukana ng ilog Malabang, at pangingisda pa rin ang hanap buhay namin at akoy ganap ng binata at matipuno ang pangangatawan dahil sa pinanday ng hirap sa pagdaan ng mga panahon at dalaga na rin ang aking kapatid, samantala si inay ay mahina na rin ang katawan, at sa bahay na lamang siya, lumalagi. Muling dumating ang pagsubok ng Allah sa aming pamilya, taon 1986, ito yong taon na naglindol ng intensity 8 dito sa Mindanaw at sinundan ito ng tidal wave na ikinasawi ng mahigit sa dalawampung libo na mamayan ng Mindanaw, at dahil sa tabi kami ng dalampasigan ay isa kami sa naging biktima, at umabot sa mahigit sa dalawang libo ang nangasawi sa amin na magkakapitbahay sa may bukana ng ilog Malabang at sa kasamaang palad ay kabilang na dito ang aking mahina ng ina, na di niya nakayanan ang malakas na agos ng rumagasang alon mula sa ilalim ng dagat dahil nga sa mahina na ang kanyang payat na katawan.

Ang aking kapatid na babae na si Soraida, ay nawawala at dalawang araw kong hinanap kahit bangkay man lamang niya tulad ng kay ina ngunit talagang wala kaming matagpuan. Dumaan ang isang linngo may balita akong tinanggap mula sa nagbibiyahe sa may Karomatan, Lanao del Norte at salamat siya’y nasagip pala ng mga mangigisda na taga Pagadian City, at siya ay inihatid pagkaraan ng isnag linggo, anong saya ko Ate Bai, at least may natitira pa sa king mga mahal sa buhay.

Sa aming mga gamit sa tahanan ay Wala ng natira sa min, lahat inanod na ng tubig ang aming mga kasangkapan at gamit sa bahay. Alam mo Kaka Bai? Sa lakas ng alon at agos ng tubig kahit na brief ko ay natanggal, oo Kaka Bai wala akong saplot sa magdamag na paghahanap sa aking mga mahal sa buhay, salamat at hatinggabi ng mangyari ang tidal wave, walang nakakakita sa aking hubad na katawan.Magbubukang liwayway na ay saka ko lamang napansin na wala pala akong saplot sa aking kahubaran,at akoy naghanap ng mga telang nagsabitan sa mga punong kahoy upang itakip sa aking mala Adan na katawan. Salamat sa Allah maraming kababayan ang mga tumulong sa amin at binuhay kaming pansamantala. Pagkatapos nito Kaka Bai, may kamag anak kaming bumisita sa amin upang alamin ang amin kalagayan, at kami ay niyayang umuwi ng Upi, Maguindanao, at dito nga kami tuluyang ng nanirahah sa Upi hanggang sa ngayon, at salamat sa Allah, sa ngayon ay may lupa na akong sarili na sinasaka at kami ay maligaya kasama ng aking pamilya at may tatlong anak.

Ang aking kapatid ay napangasawa ng taga Pagadian City, kamag anak ng nakasagip sa kanya noon at silay maligaya na rin kasama ang dalawang anak, dahil maganda ang kanilang naging negosyo na pagtitinda ng bulad na isda sa may pamilihang bayan ng Pagadian City.

Ate Bai, Ang tanging problema ko sa ngayon sa aking pamilya, ay kong papaano ko sila hihikayatin sa tamang landas ng Islam dahil ang kanilang nakakamulatan sa araw araw ay ang giyahil [ipinagbabawal ng Islam] na mga Gawain sa aming paligid, di naman kami makaalis dahil dito sa aming tinitirhan dahil dito ang aming tanging kabuhayan, na binigay ng Allah, ang pagsasaka. Sana may tumira malapit sa amin na Uztadz o alam niya ang Islam para naman kong minsan maturuan ang aking pamilya,ng tamang Gawain sa Islam upang kami ay maging tunay na ganap na Muslim o nanamplataya.

Hanggang dito na lamang Ate Bai, at ipag umanhin mo ang kahabaan ng aking liham kasaysayan, maraming salamat at Wassallam.

Gumagalang ang iyong kapatid sa pananampalataya

si Lomi ng Upi, Maguindanao

(Note:pagkatapos na basahin ang sulat ay nabibigay ng payo si Ate Bai at may text ding tinatanggap upang magbigay ng comments o payo, pagkatapos ay naghahandog ng angkop na awitin)


1 Comments:

Anonymous big brother said…

Wala ng bang ibang sulat Ate Bai? pwede i publish din ninyo para may mabasa naman ako, kahit di ko naririnig ang station ninyo.

aasahan ko ang susunod na kabanata Ate Bai.
ur
Big Brother>>>>>>

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Kilalanin Ang Kultura at Kaugalian ng Bangsamoro

November 17, 2008
Nov 14, ‘08 2:01 PM
for everyone

Kaka Alih November 14, 2008

 

 

Bago pa man dumating dito sa mga pulo o lupang nasa Silangan ang mga kastila, ( ang mananakop, the colonizers), noong 1521 ay may kultura at kaugalian na ang mga naunang naninirahan dito sa lupain na ngayon ay tinatawag na Pilipinas. Bagamat ang mga ninuno natin ay nagtanggol sa kanilang mga kaharian, sila ay nagapi dahil sa makabagong armas sila ay natalo at nasakop ng Espania. Dahil  ang mga mamayan sa Lupang Silangan (na tinawag ng Espania na Pilipinas, na ang ibig sabihin ay “tao ni Haring Felipe”) ay nasakop ang ating mga ninuno na di sa huli ay tinawag na mga Pilipino (tawag sa taong nasa Pilipinas) ang mga kulturang ito ay dahan-dahan nangawala at di  man nawala ay nadagdagan o sadyang nabago sa pagdaan  ng panahon.

 

Sa bandang Mindanao,  Sulu at Palawan (MINSUPALA) ay nahirapan ang Espania na sakopin (ayon sa ibang manunulat ay hindi talagang nasakop) dahil sa isa na itong matatag na bansa noon pa man bago pa dumating ang mga mananakop na Espaniol. Bagamat hindi gaano makabago ang   armas ay organisado ang kanilang tanggulang bansa. Hindi basta-basta nakapagtatag ng kanilang goberno dito sa MINSUPALA ang mga dayuhang mananakop na  Espaniol, ngunit dahil sa tulong ng mga kapatid, (na nabihag) na ngayon ay tinawag na Pilipino (na walang magawa kundi sundin ang utos ng mananakop, kaya sila napilitang maging mandirigma na nagsisilbi para sa Espanya) ay natalo nila ang depensa ng mga Bangsamoro sa Sambuwangan (Zamboanga), at itinayo ng Espania ang kanilang kuta, tinawag nila itong Cota del Pilar.

 

Dahil sa hindi nasakop, nanatili (intact) ang kultura   mga Bangsamoro (Moro ang tawag ng Espania sa mga tao na katulad ng kanilang nakalaban sa Morocco. At Bangsa ang ibig sabihin sa Malay ay nangangahulugan ng angkan- kaya angkan ng mga Moro=Bangsamoro) ang kanilang mga kultura at kaugalian. At ang mga kulturang ito   ay hinango naman sa Islam, ang relihiyong kanilang pinaniniwalaan noon pa man.

 

Ang ibig sabihin ng Islam ay ..”pagtalima at pagsuko sa nag-iisang Diyos.” Ang tagasunod ng Islam ay tinatawag naman na Muslim na ang ibig sabihin, “…. ay naniniwala, mga taong tumalima sa kautusan ng Allah” (ang tawag sa Poong Lumikha o Diyos).

 

At dahil sa paniniwalang ito  sa Islam ang kanilang mga kultura at kaugalian ay nilimbag sa timplang Islam, kaya makikita natin na halos magkatulad sa Islam.

 

Dumaan ang mga panahon, dumating ang Amerikano (tawag sa taga Amerika), natalo naman nila ang Espania at sila ay napaalis dito sa Pilipinas, bagamat ang kanilang kamandag ay nanatili nanalaytay pa rin sa dugo ng mga Pilipino.

 

Nasakop na ng Amerika ang Pilipinas, hindi ito nagtagal, bakit ?  dahil marahil wala na silang makakatas, dahil nasaid na maraahil ng Espania ang tamis nito, kaya iyon marahil ang dahilan na ibinigay na  nila ang “pagsasarili” (independence) sa mga Pilipino.

 

Ang masakit lang nito ay isinama nila ang mga kapatid na nasa Mindanao na hindi man lang nila kinunsulta, ong papayag ba sila o hindi. Sa kabila ng katotohanan na sila ay nagsisigaw na ibalik sa kanila ang kanilang dating pagsasarili.

 

Nagplano ng mga programa ang bagong nagsasariling bansa (ang Pilipinas) kong papaano magkaisa sa paniniwala at kultura  ang mga taong tinatawag nilang Pilipino at ang ayaw na matawag na Pilipino (na ngayon ay lalong kilala sa tawag na Bangsamoro). 

 

Ang magkapatid na ito  ay magkasalamuha, (naging kapit bahay at ang iba naging kabiyak,) at dito sa prosesong ito ay dahan-dahan, nabuo ang mga kultura at kaugalian na hindi ginagawa ng mga ninuno ng mga Bangsamoro at wala sa katuruan ng Islam.

 

Ang tanong ano ang mga ito, na mga kultura at  kaugalian na wala sa mga ninuno at  hindi itinuturo ng relihiyong Islam?

 

Narito ang ilan sa mga ginagawa ng ilan sa mga Bangsamoro sa ngayon na hindi na kasama sa mga kultura at kaugalian ng mga ninuno:

 

1. Pagdiriwang sa araw ng kapanganakan (Birthday)

 

Ang mga “assimilated” na  Bangsamoro sa ngayon ay nagdiriwang na rin ng kaarawan ng kanilang mga anak katulad ng mga Pilipino o yaong ngayon ay tinatawag na “settlers”.

 

Ang mga ninuno ng mga Bangsamoro ay may sarili silang pagdiriwang sa mga anak na bagong panganak, pagkapanganak ay tatawag sila ng Azan o bang sa tabi ng kanilang anak. Ilang araw o linggo ay magtatakda sila ng kaduli na tinatawag na “gunting” dito bibibigyan ng pormal ng pangalan ang bata. Sa ibang tribung  Bangsamoro (Maguindanaon, Iranon) mayroon din silang tinatawag na “likat sa lantay” isa din itong uri ng  kanduli (thasksgiving).

 

Papaano nagdiriwang ang mga ibang Pilipino ng kaarawan? Kanilang hinalaw marahil sa kanluraning kultura.

 

Ang pagdiriwang ng kaarawan ay bantog na bantog noon pa sa mga paganong Greko at Romano. Ito ay ipinagdiriwang sa pamamagitan ng pagdarasal, pag-aalay, masaganang kainan, at ang pagbibigay ng regalo sa may kaarawan.

 

Diyan marahil nahango ang pagdiriwang sa kaarawan ng kapangakan ni Jesus o Iesa (kapayapaan ay sasakanaya).

 

Tanong bakit kayong mga Bangsamoro ay ipinag diriwang ang  Kaarawan ni Propeta Muhammad kong tawagin ninyo ay Maulidin Nabi

 

Ito ay sadyang napakalungkot na nangyayari. Bagama’t ang mga Muslim ay may maliwanag na patnubay na nananatiling nasa orihinal na anyo hanggang sa ngayon, hindi pa rin maiwasan ng iba ang pagsagawa ng mga bagay na salungat sa itinuturo ng Islam. Ito ay dulot ng kamangmangan sa pananampalataya at sa pagnanais na tularan ang ginagawa ng iba.

 

Si Propeta Muhammad ay nagsabi:

 

Anumang bagong bagay na isinasama sa ating pananampalatayang ito (Islam), ay hayaan itong itakwil.”

 

Si Propeta Muhammad ay nagsabi:

 

Wala nang iba pang gawain na makapaglalapit sa inyo sa Allah maliban lamang sa mga naituro ko sa inyo.”

 

Bilang pangwakas, tayong mga Muslim ay may dalawang batayan sa ating panuntunan ng buhay: ang Qur’an at ang Sunnah ni Propeta Muhammad. Ang ating pamumuhay at pagsamba ay nararapat lamang ayon sa Kanyang ipinahayag at sa pamamaraang itinuro ng Kanyang Propeta upang ito ay tanggapin ng Allah.

 

Si Propeta Muhammad ay nagsabi:

 

May dalawang bagay akong iiwanan sa inyo na kung inyo itong panghahawakan ng mahigpit ay hindi kayo maliligaw: ang purong Salita ng Allah at ang aking Sunnah.”   

 

Mga karagdagang mga talata sa Qur’an at mga Hadith:

 

Katotohanan, nasa Sugo ng Allah ang pinakamahusay na halimbawa upang pamarisan - sa sinuman na may pag-asam sa (pagharap sa) Allah, sa Huling Araw at laging alaala ang Allah. [Surah Al Ahzab, 33:21]

 

“…At anuman ang ibigay sa inyo ng Sugo ay kunin ito, at anumang kanyang ipagbawal sa inyo ay iwasan ito…” [Surah Hashr, 59:7]

 

“… At hayaan ang mga sumasalungat sa mga ipinag-uutos ng Sugo na mag-ingat, kung hindi’y magkakaroon sila ng Fitnah (pagsubok, kahirapan, lindol, patayan, pang-aapi, etc) o isang napakasakit na parusa ang mapapasakanila.” [Surah An-Nur, 24:63]

 

O kayong nananampalataya!  Sundin ang Allah at sundin ang Sugo), at  yaong may otoridad. Kung kayo’y di-magkaunawaan sa anumang bagay sa isa’t isa, isangguni sa Allah at sa Kanyang Sugo (saws), kung kayo ay naniniwala sa Allah at sa Huling Araw.  Iyon ay higit na mahusay at higit na karapat-dapat sa huling pagpapasiya.” [Surah An-Nisa, 4:59]

 

At kung inyong susundin ang karamihan dito sa daigdig, kanilang ililigaw kayo nang malayo sa landas ng Allah.  Wala silang sinusunod maliban sa haka-haka, at wala silang ginawa kundi magsinungaling.” [Surah Al An-am, 6:116]

 

Si Propeta Muhammad ay nagsabi:

 

“Mag-ingat sa kalabisan tungkol sa relihiyon.  Napahamak ang mga nauna sa inyo dahil sa kanilang pagmamalabis tungkol sa relihiyon.”

 

Si Propeta Muhammad ay nagsabi:

 

“Huwag magmalabis sa pagpuri sa akin kagaya ng ginawa ng mga Kristiyano sa anak ni Maria. Ako ay isang alipin, kaya’t inyo lamang  sabihin: “Alipin ng Allah at Kanyang Sugo”.

 

2. Pagpapaputok sa araw ng Id

 

Pagsapit ng Id (Hariya Puwasa at haj) ay nagpapaputok ang mga Bangsamoro, bilang pagsasaya, katulad ng pagdiriwang mga Intsik. Ang mga Intsik na kilalang mangangalakal sa mundo at dumating na sila ditto sa MINSUPA, at marahil ito ang impluwensa nila sa mga Talainged (native inahabitants).

 

Noon ang pinapuputok ay rebentador at kanyon na gawang Tsino, di nagtagal ay ginaya ng mga mga Pilipinong taga Bulacan.  Sa ngayon ay nawala ang mga iyon, at napalitan ng mga makabagong  armas na pumuputok at ito na ang ginagamit.

 

3-Kalilang (ceremonial of marriage)

 

Ang kasal ay sa mga restaurant o hotel ay isinasaayos ng mga “third generation” at kanila nila ito kinopya sa sa kultura ng settlers at dinagdagan ng kulturang Bangsamoro, lalo na yaong hindi pa tanggap ng mga katutubong Bangsamoro. Halimbawa ang Biblia ay pinalitan ng Qur’an. Nagsasabay ang babae at lalaki, at nagpaparada na ang babae kahit hindi pa sila kasal.

 

Naglalagay din sila ng decoration na tinatawag na pandala.

 

Ang mga Bangsamoro noon kong may ikakasal ay hiwalay ang lalaki at babae, pagkatapos ng Kutba Nikah (wedding sermon) ay sasamahan ang lalaki ng biyanan sa babaeng pinakakasalan. 

 

Ang kalilang ay ginagawa sa bahay ng babae, isa araw o higit pa bago ang kawing l o kasalan.

 

4- Pagdadamit na nakalabas ang kahubaran, at pag-gaya sa ibang kasarian

 

Sa ngayon ay nakapantalon ang mga babae katulad ng mga lalake, at ang mga damit ay hakab na hakab ang porma ng katawan.

 

Ang damit ng babae ay tinatawag na minoro ang pangitaas at malong ang pang-ibaba, ito ay kahantulad sa damit ng T’duray noon.  Nagtetendong (bandana) ang mga babae. Naglalagay ng mga decoration ang babae sa kanyang damit ng mga ginto o pilak.

 

Ang lalake naman ay gumagamit ng tubaw. At may nakasukbit na gurok sa tagiliran (maliit na punyal) at nakasabit na sundang o kampilan sa biwang at kong minsan may dala-dalang bangkaw (spears).

 

5-pag-inom ng alak na makalasing (kamer)

 

Sa ngayon ay umiinom ng alak na makalasing ang mga Bangsamoro, katulad na rin mga Settlers na Pilipino, kahit ito ay patago sa mga kamag-anak o angkan, dahil sa isinusumpa o itinuturing noon ng mga ninuno na “kafir” (hindi naniniwala) ang uminom ng arak (alak na makalasing) ayon sa paniniwala ng ninuno o matatanda ay 40 na araw na walang matatanggap na amal (pagsamba sa Allah o Gawain para sa Allah ang matatanggap).

 

Ang basehan ng mga Bangsamoro kong bakit hindi dapat inumin ng isang  Naniniwala ang alak na makalasing ay base na rin sa Quran.

 

“O kayong naniniwala o Nanampalataya! Ang mga nakalalasing na alak (lahat ng uri ng inuming may alkohol at i iba pa  na  nakapagbibigay ng lambong sa kaisipan tulad ng ipinagbabawal na gamot, droga, ), pagsusugal, Al Ansab at Al Aslam (mga gamit sa paghahanap ng suwerte at pasiya) ay kasuklam-suklam at mga paglalalang (pakana) ni Satanas. Kung kaya’t iwasan ito upang kayo ay mangagsipagtagumpay.” [Qur’an, Surah Al Maida: 90]

 

Mga sakit na idinudulot ang alak, (na base sa pananaliksik ng mga nakakaalam  at pwedeng Makita ng harap-harapan):

 

  1. Binubuhay nito ang seksuwal na pagnanasa, na siyang nagtutulak sa tao na gumawa ng kasumpa-sumpa at karumal-dumal na tawag ng laman: na tulad ng panggagahasa, karahasan at kalaswaan. At ang pinatutungahan nito kung minsan ay pagpapatiwakal!

  1. Nagdudulot ito ng pinsala sa utak: Isa sa sanhi nito ay ang pagkawala ng memorya ng isang tao, sanhi rin ito ng pagkakaroon ng impeksiyon sa utak, pagkabulok ng ‘cortex cells’ (nagpapagalaw sa ating kalamnan)  sa utak ng isang tao na nauuwi sa pagkasira ng ulo.

  1. Nagiging sanhi rin ito ng unti-unting pagkabaog o pagkainutil ng isang tao at pagkaparalitiko ng buong katawan. (kayo sigoro marami kayong alam na naparalitiko na palainum ng alak,)

  1. Pinipinsala rin nito ang atay ng isang tao, na kung kaya mabibigo nitong alisin ang mga lason sa loob ng katawan, lalung-lalo na ang ‘amonia.’ At dahil sa ganitong pangyayari ay tataas ang antas ng lason sa dugo. At ang lason na ito ang makaka-apekto sa pagkilos ng kaisipan at makakagambala sa emosyon: Na kung kaya, hindi na magiging normal ang kanyang pagkilos at pag-uugali. Magiging makasarili na siya, magalitin, mapaghinila at magiging malungkutin.

  1. Pagkakaroon ng depekto sa kidney, sa albumin sa ihi, at nakakamatay na pangangasim ng dugo (o fatal blood acidity), na magwawakas sa ‘heart failure.’

  1. Nagdudulot ng impeksiyon sa ‘Nerve’ ng mga mata na humahantong sa pagkabulag ng tao.

Nagtutulak sa isang tao na gumawa ng mga kakaibang krimen at iba pang mga kasamaan.

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COMMENT: Looking into SC decision (3). By Patricio P. Diaz

November 9, 2008
Patricio P. Diaz/MindaNews   
Wednesday, 05 November 2008 22:32

Part 3 of a series

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/5 Nov) — The MOA-AD evokes the fate of Julius Caesar, the great Roman conqueror: “… as he was ambitious, I slew him.” This, Brutus said in his oration at Caesar’s funeral. He was Caesar’s best friend but he led the conspirators, including senators, in assassinating Caesar because they had suspected him of planning to crown himself as emperor of Rome, then a republic.

Associative Relation

Because the MOA-AD had envisioned the BJE – the Bangsamoro more autonomous entity – local government officials petitioned the Supreme Court to “slay” it. “Petitioners assert that the powers granted the BJE exceed those granted to any local government under present laws, and even go beyond those of the present ARMM,” the Court wrote in its Decision.

According to the Court, “the international law concept of association” is the “unifying link to the different provisions of the MOA-AD” – quoting from Consensus 4, Governance: “The relationship between the Central Government and the Bangsamoro Juridical Entity shall be associative characterized by shared authority and responsibility …”

The Court granted that this associative relationship would still be precisely defined in the Comprehensive Compact. But it expected a final definition “in an international legal context” to be unacceptable since among the terms of references of the MOA-AD were “international law instruments” wherein the “concept of association is not recognized under the present Constitution”.

The Court observed: “The defining concept underlying the relationship between the national government and the BJE being itself contrary to the present Constitution, it is not surprising that many of the specific provisions of the MOA-AD on the formation and powers of the BJE are in conflict with the Constitution and the laws.”

Contrary Opinions

Some legal authorities have contrary opinions.

Dr. Alex B. Brilliantes Jr., dean of the National College of Public Administration and Governance of the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City, observed that the MOA-AD “is a step farther from federalism and may even lay the groundwork for outright separatism”. He proposes to further examine some of the MOA-AD provisions and place them “within the context of a sovereign Philippines”.

Fr. Ranhilio Callangan Aquino, dean of the Graduate School of Law of San Beda College in Manila, took exception to the Court’s conclusion – based on its inquiry into the associative relation of the United States with the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia – that: “An associative relation … is one between two states or, in the very least, between a state and a political entity ‘on the way’ to statehood.”

What is the exception? He said: “’Association’ in international law, however, is not a univocal concept [not one meaning only]. The relation between the Cook Islands and New Zealand is ‘associative’ and yet sui generis [a class by itself]. The British Commonwealth of Nations is yet another form of association.”

Zeroing in on the BJE, he continued: “The proposed BJE could have been another variant to the already variegated forms of association: An association between a sovereign State, the Republic of the Philippines, and a political entity analogous to, but not quite (nor necessarily ‘on the road to’) a state.”

How did he explain the Court’s opinion? “Referring to the powers the BJE was proposed to enjoy, the court found them suspiciously bordering on carving out a new independent state. It is a reading, I think, against the background of a history of secessionist sentiments and rhetoric, but it is not necessarily the only way to read the proposed grant of powers” – the problem being “ultimately semantic – an infelicitous choice of legal characterization”.

And he wondered: “Had the GRP Panel refrained from using the disturbing phrase ‘associative relationship’, choosing instead (another term) to spell out the relations between the Republic of the Philippines and the Bangsamoro, would the result have been different?”

Santos disagreed “that ‘the concept [of associative relationship] presupposes that the associated entity is a state and implies that the same is on its way to independence’. There are states … including constituent states in federal republic and associated states. But these are not sovereign independent states.”

Free Association

The Court cited the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of Marshall Islands as examples of states with associative relation with the United States. Santos added to these the Commonwealth of the Philippines (1935-46), the Republic of Palau, the Northern Mariana Islands and Puerto Rico.

“Some of these,” he observed, “later emerged as a sovereign independent State (notably the Philippines), others stayed as associated states of the U.S.” Of these others, the Northern Mariana Islands is a commonwealth and Puerto Rico is a commonwealth or an associated free state. Obviously, Santos is pointing out that the Court’s illustrative example is selective.

At this point, two principles of free association are worth noting:

First: The Court cited Keitner and Reisman stating that “[a]n association is formed when two states of unequal power voluntarily establish durable links. In the basic model, one state, the associate, delegates certain responsibilities to the other, the principal, while maintaining its international status as a state. Free associations represent a middle ground between integration and independence.” (Emphasis supplied by the Court}

Second: Citing the UN General Assembly Resolution 1541 (XV) of 1960, Santos pointed out: “Ordinarily, there are three general options for self-determination, or more precisely for a Non-Self Governing Territory to reach a full measure of self-government: (1) Emergence as a sovereign independent State; (2) Free association with an independent State; and, (3) Integration with an independent State.

Note Well: The two principles are essentially identical. The Court and Santos are in full agreement in their citations.

The cases cited as illustrative examples by the Court (including Antigua, St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenada), by Santos and by Aquino fall within the above principles.

                                                                Compact

By the Court’s own account, “the Republic of Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), formerly part of the U.S.-administered Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, are associated states of the U.S. pursuant to a Compact of Free Association”. In essence then, the associative relations between the “associate” and “principal” states are stipulated in the Compact of Free Association.

In the case of RMI and FSM above, “Their international legal status as states was confirmed by the UN Security Council and by their admission to UN membership.” However, their currency “is the U.S. dollar, indicating their very close ties with the U.S., yet they issue their own travel documents, which is a mark of their statehood”.

The other specific relations of RMI and FSM with the U.S. according to their compacts of free association are almost the same as what the MILF would want the BJE to have with the GRP as proposed in Territory, Resources and Governance of the MOA-AD. Apparently, the RMI and FSM are among the models of the BJE.

Many features of the relations between RMI and FSM with the U.S. are the same as those between Cook Islands and New Zealand. While the former are sovereign states, the latter is not – just self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand. The Republic of Palau is also a sovereign state, like RMI and FSM, with compact of free association with the U.S.

Northern Mariana Islands chose in 1970 commonwealth instead of independence. Its associative status with the U.S. is spelled out in a negotiated “Covenant” approved by the U.S. Congress establishing a political union with the U.S.

The Commonwealth or Associated Free State of Puerto Rico has been associated with the U.S. since the Treaty of Paris when Spain ceded it – together with the Philippines and Cuba – to the U.S. Its associative status is governed by a number of Acts of the U.S. Congress.

To sum up, there are various forms of associative relation between “associate” and “principal” states spelled out in the compact of free association, covenant, other agreements and laws. In fact, the “associate-principal” relation is just one of the associative relations. As Aquino pointed out, the Commonwealth of Nations is another form of association. In the same vein, the Association of East Asian Nations and the European Union are other variations.

The BJE

Because the MOA-AD “contains many provisions which are consistent with international legal concept of association”, it “indicates, among other things, that the Parties aimed to vest the BJE the status of an associated state or, at any rate, a status closely approximating it”, the Court opined.

And it ruled: “The concept of association is not recognized under the present Constitution.” Unmistakably, the Court is saying that the Philippines will not – because it cannot – sign a compact of free association with the Bangsamoro people to establish the BJE.

Aquino contends that the international concept of “association” — being “not univocal” or not just having one meaning — should not mean only as in the cases of the RMI, FSM and others cited by the Court. The associative relation of Cook Islands with New Zealand is a variation of “association”. Had the MOA-AD not been scuttled, he thinks “the proposed BJE could have been another variation.”

Santos, in using Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands as examples side by side with RMI, FSM and Palau, supports Aquino. He said, “So much depends really on ‘the terms of the free association agreed upon’. This precisely is what the GRP and the MILF are in the process of doing, with such terms to be found in the MOA-AD and, more importantly for finality and detail, the Comprehensive Compact.”

Brilliantes agreed with the Court and the opponents of the MOA-AD that the powers granted the BJE may lead to “outright separatism”. But he only proposed that some of the provisions of the MOA-AD “should be further examined and placed within the context of a sovereign Philippine republic”.

From the contrary opinions of Aquino and Santos — and even Brilliantes – it may be inferred: The Court should not have declared outright the MOA-AD as unconstitutional. Instead, it should have allowed the GRP and MILF panels to spell out in the Comprehensive Compact the BJE-GRP associative relation.

From Brilliantes’ proposal, it could also be inferred that national sovereignty is the ultimate measure of the constitutionality of the GRP-BJE associative relation. By this standard, the Comprehensive Compact must be judged — implying that what does not violate national sovereignty is not unconstitutional; and, the Constitution should be amended to provide for what does not violate sovereignty but is not recognized in the present Constitution.

Could the Court reconsider its thinking and decision? [To Be Continued]

(”Comment” is Mr. Patricio P. Diaz’ column for MindaViews, the opinion section of MindaNews. The Titus Brandsma Media Awards recently honored Mr. Diaz with a “Lifetime Achievement Award” for his “commitment to education and public information to Mindanawons as Journalist, Educator and Peace Advocate.” You can reach him at patpdiazgsc@yahoo.com.This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )

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War takes a heavy toll on children as fighting drags on

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Saturday, 08 November 2008 14:

 

MUNAI, Lanao del Norte (MindaNews / November 7) – Almost lifeless, Baby Hamda lies peacefully, his eyes closed, his tiny fingers curled stiff, pale almost bluish. His mother, Meriam Mecaranda, sleeps by his side, her face one of resignation, as if waiting for the hour when death may strike her little one.

“It has been days already like this, the baby would often stop breathing. But just when we think he is dead, he would come back to life,” says a woman in the adjoining makeshift shelter.

Meriam rouses herself from sleep, surprised to see a group of journalists crowding around their packed quarters inside a market stall here turned evacuation center in poblacion Munai.

Cradling him in her arms, she gently taps the baby’s cheeks several times to wake him up, as if checking whether there remains life within the little bundle. The baby remained motionless.

“The baby is dead,” someone frantically shouted. The crowd fell silent, waiting with bated breath, some with tears in their eyes. 

Baby Hamda is just 28 days old. Ever since the day he was born in early October inside the Munai evacuation camp, “nag-aagaw buhay siya lagi,” caught in a constant struggle between life and death, says the woman in the adjoining makeshift.

But just as all seemed without hope, the baby suddenly stirs back to life, breathing once again.

Everyone heaves a sigh of relief.  Journalists click on their cameras to capture what seemed to be a moment of light prevailing over death’s shadows.

Then, unexpectedly, the baby seems to go lifeless again. 

“We could not just watch and wait for him to die here,” an anxious voice exclaims.

It is the voice of Fr. Eduardo “Ponpon” Vasquez, head of I-watch, the video documentation arm of the Oblate Media and a GMA-7 stringer, who is then taking footage of the ongoing drama. 

Vasquez was with a team of journalists who was going around evacuation centers from North Cotabato to Maguindanao to Lanao del Sur and now, on their fourth day on the road and the last leg, here in Lanao del Norte. The media tour from October 27 to 31 was hosted by the Mindanao Peoples Caucus.

While it was always the stories of dying children that gripped them wherever they go, nothing is as compelling as the stark image of Baby Hamda withering gradually before their eyes. For the team that included veteran photojournalist Rene Lumawag who was the first to chance upon the baby, it is time to lay down their pens and cameras. 

“We’re bringing him to the hospital. Any moment now he will die,” said Vasquez who brought the mother and baby in his pick-up joining a four-vehicle convoy led by MindaNews.

The baby was first brought to a hospital in Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte but had to be transferred to Iligan City for better facilities upon the advice of the attending doctor who suspected the baby to be suffering from severe pneumonia.

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Baby Hamda at the Kauswagan District Hospital. MindaNews photo by Rene B. Lumawag

“He only has a 50-50 chance of survival,” said Dr. Arman Colao of the Kauswagan district hospital

Many not as fortunate

While a miracle may have saved Baby Hamda’s life that day, many other infants and children in about 150 evacuation centers scattered all over Central Mindanao were not as fortunate.

As the three-month-old military offensives against three out of 16 base commands of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) drag on,  the war is already exacting a heavy toll on civilians particularly children.  

Already, there are 56 internally displaced persons (IDPs) who have died in Maguindanao and Shariff Kabunsuan, 32 of whom due to illness and 18 from actual encounters, according to the Department of Health in the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (DOH-ARMM) in a November 4 report.

About 21 of the reported deaths caused by illness were ages five years old and below. Diarrhea is the number one leading cause of death among IDPs.

At the Munai evacuation center here alone, 11 evacuees have already died since August 18, seven of them children, mostly due to pneumonia and measles, according to Raissa Ariraya, a midwife at the Munai Municipal Health Center here.

Inside the health center here, among those confined were children evacuees Emran Balabagan, 7, from Sitio Dilabagen West, Barangay Bacolod and Suraini
Banglan, 1, from Barangay Ramayen, who were being treated for nausea, diarrhea and fever.

But seven imams (religious leaders) said that there were already 30 deaths since evacuations started on August 18. They also said that out of 26 barangays in Munai, 21 of them are now “ghost towns” due to military offensives in pursuit of MILF renegade commander Abdurahman Macapaar alias Kumander Bravo.

In Datu Piang and Mamasapano, Maguindanao, Mindanews earlier reported that at least 43 evacuees have already died, 23 of them children, citing records from the town hall and the rural health unit.

While at Datu Piang poblacion during the first leg of the media tour on October 27, Mindanews chanced upon 16-year-old Raiz Adteg who was carrying an umbrella over the body of his baby sister, one-year-old Anariza, who died that morning at the plaza turned evacuation center. 

Raiz was on his way to bury Anariza whose body was wrapped in a “malong” and a mat tied on two bamboo poles carried by his uncle and cousin. He said that they had no money to buy medicine that was why his baby sister died.

At a gazebo inside the Datu Piang town plaza, a father shared his story, on how he lost his only two children, Jamir, 3, and Jamiha, 1. Merin Hardeng from Barangay Irian, Datu Saudi Ampatuan recalled that the kids had been sick and had already been treated. But on the third day, Jamir died. On the following day, they also lost the baby girl, Jamiha, just when the family came home from burying Jamir.

Lawyer Zainudin Malang, director of the MoroLaw Center who joined the journalists in the five-day tour, called on international humanitarian organizations such as the International Committee on the Red Cross to “immediately attend to dying infants and children.”

Malang asserted that there should also be strict observance of the United Nation’s High Commission on Human Rights Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement where IDPs should be provided “safety, nutrition, health and hygiene and that members of the same family should not be separated.”

Worried about the looming humanitarian crisis, Malang bared plans among Moro CSOs to establish a refugee, human rights and media secretariate to monitor the worsening plight of IDPs and rising number of human rights violations.

The Amnesty International (AI) reported that there are already about 610,000 people displaced in the last two months of fighting in Mindanao. The report entitled “Shattered Peace in Mindanao: The Human Cost of Conflict in the Philippines” was released late October.

Mindanao-wide CSOs have also called on the United Nations to intervene and put the peace process between the Philippine government and MILF back on track to stop the war. 

The peace process collapsed when the  Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) was supposed to have been formally signed on August 5 in Putrajaya, Malaysia. by the chairs of the government and the MILF peace panels. A temporary restraining order issued by the Supreme Court on August 4 however stopped the government peace panel chair and the Foreign Affairs secretary from signing. On October 14, the Supreme Court voted 8-7 declaring the MOA-AD unconstitutional.

Dwight Zabala, project consultant of the UNICEF’s Mindanao Desk based in Cotabato City, said that children IDPs should be accorded the rights to adequate food, health, play, leisure and other rights mandated under the UN Convention on the Rights of Children.

“They should also be protected from abuse, neglect and exploitation,” he added.

Zabala said that in response to the humanitarian crisis, they have set up a “child protection network” in Central Mindanao composed of 10 local and international non-government organizations. The network includes Mindanao Tulong Bakwet, Kadtuntaya Foundation Inc., Nonviolent Peaceforce, United Youth for Peace and Development (UNYPAD), United Youth of the Philippines (UNYPHIL)-Women, Oblates of Mary Immaculate-Integrated Rehabilitation Program (OMI-IRP), KAWAGIB Moro Human Rights Organization, Bangsamoro Development Agency (BDA), and Community and Family Services International (CFSI).

The network is engaged in monitoring and documentation of grave child rights violations in situations of armed conflict including the killings of children. The monitoring system is in accordance with the UN Security Council Resolution 1612 passed in 2005.

Among the killings that had been documented were the September 8 bombing in Datu Piang, Maguindanao that killed four children - Bailyn, 9; Zukarudin, 7; Adtayan, 5 and Faidza, 2 – of the Manuggal-Mandi family. A bomb dropped from a military  helicopter exploded near the boat they were riding in Barangay Butalo, Datu Piang, Maguindanao that also killed their father and 18-year-old pregnant sister, Aida.

The child protection network also set in place a system of identification and registration of separate and unaccompanied children caught in the conflict.

As for Baby Hamda, doctors have pronounced him out of danger and he is now back at the Munai evacuation center, a week after journalists intervened and brought him to the hospital on October 30.  

But once back inside evacuation centers, sick IDP children however recover slowly even after receiving treatment due to renewed exposure to health hazards, according to a DOH-ARMM report.     

Until perhaps Baby Hamda finally gets home, the struggle to survive

him and countless more other children evacuees, continues. (Charina Sanz/MindaNews)

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COMMENT: Looking into SC decision (2)

November 2, 2008
COMMENT: Looking into SC decision (2). By Patricio P. Diaz PDF Print E-mail
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Sunday, 02 November 2008 00:34

2nd of a series

GENERAL SANTOS CITY  (MindaNews / October 31) – The MOA-AD has been declared “contrary to law and the Constitution”. Any hope for it – now dead – to animate the peace process is moot. But what chance could it have had the Court been a little liberal?
The Decision has the answers.

The President’s Powers

As the Court has acknowledged, despite that the “constitutional provisions on autonomy and the statutes enacted pursuant to them have … been partially successful” with the creation of the ARMM, “the Filipino people are still faced with the reality of an on-going conflict between the Government and the MILF”. The Court saw the problem the MOA-AD intended to address. What’s surprising, however, was that it skirted its prescribed solution.

The solution lies in the President. “Being uniquely vested with the power to conduct peace negotiations with rebel groups, the President is in a singular position to know the precise nature of their grievances which, if resolved may bring an end to hostilities.”

However, the President needs some concessions: “If the President is to be expected to find means for bringing this conflict to an end and to achieve lasting peace in Mindanao, then she must be given the leeway to explore, in the course of peace negotiations, solutions that may require changes to the Constitution for their implementation.”

Its own prescription, notwithstanding, the Court deprived the President of “the leeway”. The MOA-AD was the product of three years and eight months of “exploration”.  Yet, the Court struck it down when local government executives of North Cotabato and the cities of  Zamboanga and Iligan complained of having not been consulted during the negotiation.

The unique power of the President to conduct peace negotiations must include the discretion when not to consult.  In the case of the MOA-AD, she knew – more than the complaining local government executives — the intricacies of the talks which can be messed up by third parties not privy to these intricacies by untimely intrusions.

Evidently, the Court did not consider this.

This does not mean that the right of the local government executives to be consulted has not been violated. But was that enough ground to scuttle the MOA-AD? Could consultations not have been made based on the agreement? It was not fully implementable in its initialed form. As the framework of the negotiation of the Comprehensive Compact, its flaws could have been effectively addressed in the CC – the Final Agreement.

As it appears in the Decision, the petitioners got all concessions and leeway while the President had none despite the Court’s prescription – give the President the necessary leeway to complement her unique power to conduct peace negotiations.

Limitation

By “leeway”, the Court in its Decision was explicitly referring to possible considerations for solutions including those that call for the amendment of the Constitution before they can be implemented. Such is the MOA-AD. And the leeway was expected from the Court, since it had accepted the MOA-AD for judicial review.  It instead blocked the leeway with limitation.

Of this limitation, the Court said: “As long as she limits herself to recommending these changes and submits to the proper procedure for constitutional amendments and revision, her mere recommendation need not be construed as an unconstitutional act.”
What is the extent of the limitation? “Given the limited nature of the President’s authority to propose constitutional amendments, she cannot guarantee to any third party that the required amendments will eventually be put in place, nor even be submitted to a plebiscite.

The most she could do is (to) submit these proposals as recommendations to Congress or the people, in whom constituent powers are vested.”

In stressing the limitation of the President’s power, the Court was laying down the ground to censure the President by declaring the MOA-AD unconstitutional based on Consensus 7, Governance in which the Court said the President had promised to the MILF to have the Constitution amended and on Consensus 4, Governance which grants “the BJE the status of an ‘associated state’” – a status “not recognized under the present Constitution”.

Paragraph 7

The Court said: “Paragraph (Consensus) 7 on Governance of the MOA-AD states, however,  that all provisions thereof which cannot be reconciled with the present Constitution and laws ’shall come into force upon signing of a Comprehensive Compact and upon effecting the necessary changes to the legal framework.’ This stipulation … is mandatory for the GRP to effect the changes to the legal framework contemplated in the MOA-AD. …”

Is Consensus 7, Governance a promise?  Is it mandatory? Unless given a leeway, it is more likely than not. What was the intention of the GRP negotiators in agreeing with the MILF? Did they not know the limitation of the President’s power in relation to Article XVII, Sections 1 to 3 of the 1987 Constitution?

The well known constitutionalist, Fr. Joaquin G. Bernas, S.J., in his Inquirer column (October 19) referred to this issue as a case of ambiguity  He said, “… in my contacts with members of the negotiating panel, I never got the impression that they wanted to by-pass Congress and to formulate self-executing provisions” although “… the document they produced lacks clarity.”

He explained: “In their sincere effort to produce language acceptable to people who do not accept our Constitution, their language engineering did not succeed in crafting a document free of ambiguity.” But it succeeded in building confidence. The room for a leeway lies there.

This has a parallel in the 1993-1996 GRP-MNLF peace talks. Chairman Nur Misuari, at the outset, rejected references to the Constitution and the ARMM Organic Act or R.A. 6734. GRP panel chairman Manuel T. Yan and President Fidel V. Ramos did not make an issue out of it. They went on with the negotiation without reference to the two documents. With confidence built, Misuari eventually accepted both the Constitution and R.A. 6734.

The Court never credited the President for the rapport the GRP negotiators had established with their MILF counterparts – calling their confidence-building efforts “whimsical, capricious” among others. Keeping the peace process open could not be achieved by confronting the MILF with the 1987 Constitution. No leeway, just limitations!

Intention

The Solicitor General failed to persuade the Court that the “unsigned MOA-AD is simply a list of consensus points subject to further negotiations and legislative enactments as well as constitutional processes” and that it “remains to be a proposal that does not automatically create legally demandable rights and obligations until the list of operative acts required have been duly complied with”

Lawyer Michael O. Mastura, senior member of the MILF panel, said that the MOA-AD is a “framework treaty” or agreement. He said its “working draft” would “explain the necessary ‘background’ for the GP-MILF peace process” including “the text, and the object and purpose of the treaty”.  Obviously, the Court did not find it necessary to examine the working draft.

Lawyer Sedfrey Candelaria, chief legal consultant of the GRP panel said – contrary to the Court’s opinion – that Consensus 7, Governance “may also explain the unique and non-self-executing character” of the MOA-AD. (Bold text supplied)

To explain, he quoted the first paragraph of Consensus 7 stating that: (a) the “Parties agree that the mechanisms and modalities for the actual implementation of this MOA-AD shall be spelt out in the Comprehensive Compact” and (b) for the Parties “to mutually take such steps to enable it to occur effectively”.

The “(b)” is relevant to the second paragraph of Consensus 7, Governance which is the focus of the Court’s opinion and consistently referred to as “Paragraph 7″ — reflecting mutual confidence prevailing: “When the GRP and MILF Panels came to the negotiating table,” Candelaria said, “they were driven by what is possible and not by what is unthinkable.”

That in the negotiation of the Comprehensive Compact, positions and agreements in the MOA-AD could change, Candelaria quoted a practice of negotiating peace agreements: “By their nature, implementation agreements involve new negotiations … as parties test whether they can claw back concessions made at an early stage.”
Candelaria, it should be noted, distinguishes the MOA-AD from the Comprehensive Compact – the first being the “early stage” or “framework agreement” and the second the “implementing agreement”. During the negotiation of the Comprehensive Compact, the parties “can claw back” or reconsider “concessions made” in the MOA-AD as the tentative character of the principles, concepts and framework may evolve”.

Candelaria said that the intention of Paragraph (Consensus) 7, Governance “was never … to supplant the powers of a co-equal branch of the Government by entering into the MOA-AD”.  The GRP Panel had “the mandate to submit by way of recommendations to the Executive as a result of discussions at the negotiating table.  Thereafter, the Executive may consider these for appropriate coordination within the Legislative Branch which may now undertake the necessary legal processes”.

Lawyer Soliman M. Santos, Jr., a legal scholar deeply involved in the  MILF and MNLF peace negotiations with the Government, said that the Court’s opinion on Paragraph 7 “is highly debatable, to say the least” and that the “respondents were all along following a recommendatory mode vis-à-vis their principal, the GRP,” relative to the President’s powers to negotiate — and their limitation — as expounded by the Court.
“Paragraph 7,” he argued, “should not be seen negatively as ‘making the Constitution conform to the MOA-AD’ but rather as a matter of good faith implementation of peace agreements through constitutional processes that may include any necessary amendments or revisions of the Constitution, as would be the approach too with certain international obligations.”

No Leeway

Consensus 7, Governance “is inconsistent with the limits of the President’s authority to propose constitutional amendments”; it is a “virtual guarantee that the Constitution and the laws of the Republic of the Philippines will certainly be adjusted to conform to all the ‘consensus points’ found in the MOA-AD”; so “it must be struck down as unconstitutional”.

This gives no leeway for the President to exercise her “unique” power to negotiate a peace agreement with the MILF. This dooms the peace process.

To recapitulate, the Court correctly diagnosed the Mindanao conflict. The establishment of the ARMM according to the Constitution did not stop the fighting between the Moro rebels and the Government.  Given the leeway to negotiate peace, the President can end the conflict. In her 2008 State of the Nation Address, the President hailed the MOA-AD as the breakthrough.

But in declaring the MOA-AD as unconstitutional, the Court gave leeway to the opponents of the agreement, conceding none to the President. The Court did not explore pleadings, facts and circumstances that could have swayed its opinion into conceding to the President the necessary leeway.

The leeway is this: Allow the President to fully exercise her power by letting Paragraph 7 of Governance take its full course and spell out in the Comprehensive Compact “the mechanisms and modalities for the actual implementation of this MOA-AD”.

The Court admonished the President for promising the MNLF to amend the Constitution and warned her she has no such power.  She can only recommend to Congress agreements that will require constitutional amendments for their implementation.

The admonition and warning are undeserved. The Court said the President cannot delegate powers that she does not have.  In like manner, she cannot promise to do what she has no power to do.   And, she cannot recommend to Congress any agreement that will amend the Constitution until the signing of the Comprehensive

Compact.

That’s water under the bridge but it calls for reflection.  (To Be Continued) (

“Comment” is Mr. Patricio P. Diaz’ column for MindaViews, the opinion section of MindaNews. Mr. Diaz is the recipient of a “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the Titus Brandsma for his “commitment to education and public information to Mindanawons as Journalist, Educator and Peace Advocate.” You may e-mail your comments to patpdiaz@mindanews.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

 

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MILF urges UN to set up observer post

October 31, 2008
     
Charina Sanz/MindaNews   
Wednesday, 29 October 2008 08:50

SULTAN KUDARAT, Shariff Kabunsuan (MindaNews/29 October) — The Moro Islamic Liberation Front on Tuesday urged the United Nations to set up an observer post here in the hope that it would prevent an “international humanitarian crisis.” Ghazali Jaafar, MILF vice chair for political affairs, said the front is worried that continued military offensives against the commanders and members of  three of the 16 MILF base commands will further lead to a massive humanitarian crisis.

“We fear if these military actions won’t stop, we may experience an international humanitarian crisis,” he told reporters at the peace panel’s office in Crossing Simuay here.  

“The UN should step in now before this develops into a kind of problem difficult to resolve,” added Jaafar.

Jaafar said that the UN observer post should be able to look at the situation inside evacuation centers in the conflict-affected areas in Maguindanao, North Cotabato and Lanao.

The National Disaster Coordinating Council reported that as of October 28, there are still  about 75,931  families or 375,86 persons affected by the ongoing offensives. At least half a mlllion persons were displaced by the renewed skirmishes between government forces and the MILF since August.

The Regional Disaster Coordinating Council-ARMM said military operations and encounters between the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and MILF continue in the municipalities of Datu Piang, Datu Saudi, Talayan,  and  Mamasapano.

The NDCC had earlier declared the provinces of Maguindanao and Lanao del Norte and the municipalities of Libungan in Cotabato and Tangkal, Linamon, Kauswagan, Munai, and Kolambugan, Lanao del Norte under a state of calamity.

As of October 22,  RDCC-ARMM said  a total record of 117 barangays were affected by armed conflict in ARMM. To date, eight  municipalities in Maguindanao, four in Shariff Kabunsuan have existing evacuation centers.  

Jaafar said they are seriously alarmed that since operations began in August, there are already about a hundred civilians dead including many small women and children.

“There are ghost towns in Maguindanao particularly Datu Piang, Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Mamasapano, Talitay and in the interior areas of Talayan and Guindulungan,” Jaafar said.

Lawyer Lanang Ali, member of the MILF peace panel, said  a UN observer post will also help secure evacuees from arrests or abduction.   

On Monday night, youth groups held a prayer vigil rally at the plaza in neighboring Cotabato City, seeking UN intervention to help resolve Bangsamoro grievances and calling for the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) and the resumption of peace talks between the government and the MILF.  

They also appealed for an end to the killing of innocent civilians and illegal abductions.

The rally was spearheaded by the United Youths for Peace and Development (UNYPAD), host of a three-day summit convened by the Generation Peace, a Manila-based youth organization affiliated with the Gaston Z. Ortigas Peace Institute.

The MOA-AD was initialed by then government peace panel chair Rodolfo Garcia and MILF peace panel chair Mohagher Iqbal on July 27 with formal signing scheduled for August 5 in Putrajaya, Malaysia. But a temporary restraining order was issued by the Philippine Supreme Court, preventing Garcia and Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo from signing the document.

The government in late August announced it would no longer sign the MOA and dissolved its peace panel on September 3. The Supreme Court on October 14 voted 8-7, declaring the MOA-AD unconstitutional. (Charina Sanz, MindaNews)

 

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What we should know about Land tenure as a mode of holding property known as the “Regalian Doctrine” applied in Mindanao?

October 30, 2008

 Tuntayan Tano (We should know)—by Atty. Lanang Ali

Regalia: Royal rights which a King has by virtue of his prerogative. These include the power of judicature, of life and death, of war and peace over abandoned or ownerless goods and minting of money.  Thus, under the Regalian Doctrine, all lands of the public domain belong the State, which is the source of any assorted right of ownership of land.  History tells us that the King of Spain had not exercised said Royal rights or prerogative the power of judicature, of life and death, of war and peace over abandoned or ownerless goods and minting of money within the Bangsamoro homeland. The Regalian doctrine of acquiring land or any of the patrimony of the Bangsamoro people for having originated will never be welcome to the Bangsamoro people. The Bangsamoro people has completely disregarded the theory of jura regalia, for it is nothing more than a natural fruit of conquest of the neighboring Visayas and Luzon. The term land tenure denotes a mode of holding property. During the Middle Ages, to the West, like in Spain, theoretically, all land is owned by the Crown and all who are possessed of land hold the same absolutely for the Crown as there was no division of the Church and State. In England, similarly, all land is owned by the English Crown and all who are possessed of land hold the same mediate or immediately of the Crown.  The possession of land by a subject is called tenure which may be in capite or in chief, that is, he tenant may hold the land directly from the Crown or it may be mesne tenure where he holds the land from another subject. While the Crown had dominion of the soil, the tenant had the right to the possession thereof (tenure). The tenant’s right to the use of the profits of the soil was “seisin“.
Before the signing of the Treaty of Paris on April 11, 1899, or to be more accurate, even before coming of Spaniards or of Western Powers, theologically, in Islam, the Moro Sultans, as Vice gerent of Allah in this part of Mindanao were the care-takers of all lands in Mindnao, Sulu and Palawan exclusively for the Bangsamoro people, whether agricultural, mineral or forest were under the exclusive patrimony and dominion of the Moro Sultanate, hence, private ownership of land could only be acquired through Moro royal concessions.

Comparatively speaking, land tenure as practiced in Islam is essentially similar or akin to the land tenure in capite or in mesne as practiced in England. Since we are talking here of land, Allah had reminded the Sultan and His subjects alike that all bounties proceed from Allah. These bounties from Allah may be in the form of food, clothing, houses, gardens, wealth, land e.g. influence, power, birth and the opportunities flowing from it, health, talents, etc., e.g., into good and evil, understanding of men, the capacity for love, etc. The Moro Sultans and the Bangsamoro people are to use the land in humility and moderation.  But they are also to give out of every one of them something that contributes to the well-being of others.  They are to be neither ascetics for luxurious sensualist neither selfish misers nor thoughtless prodigals.  Since many Bangsamoros are devout Muslims, I recommend land tenure as practiced in Islam in areas where Muslims are predominant, otherwise, I recommend the English practice. In areas where the relics of feudalism or the like of it apparent or still strong; a new law on land tenure following our culture, customs and traditions may be enacted therefor.     

Regalia: Royal rights which a King has by virtue of his prerogative. These include the power of judicature, of life and death, of war and peace over abandoned or ownerless goods and minting of money.  Thus, under the Regalian Doctrine, all lands of the public domain belong the State, which is the source of any assorted right of ownership of land. (Seville vs. National Development Corporation 351 SCRA 112)

Before the Treaty of Paris on April 11, 1899, Filipino lands, whether agricultural, mineral or forest were under the exclusive patrimony and dominion of the Spanish Crown, hence, private ownership of land could only be acquired through royal concessions. (Palomo Court of Appeals 266 SCRA 942) hence private ownership of land whether agricultural, mineral or forest were under the exclusive patrimony and dominion of the Moro Sultan. Land titles did not exist in the Moro people and other indigenous peoples’ economic and social system – the concept of individual land ownership under the civil law is alien to them. On March 2, 2000, the Negotiating Parties had signed a Joint Communique wherein the Parties agreed to cluster the Agenda items into six (6) aggrupations, namely:

1.Ancestral Domain/ Agrarian Related Issues;
2.Destruction of Properties and Victims of War/ Displaced and Landless Bangsamoro;
3.Human Rights issues;
4.Social and Cultural Disdrimination/ Corruption of the Mind and Moral Fibre;
5.Economic Inequities and Widespread Poverty;
6.Exploitation of Natural Resources.  

All the above aggrupations are of prime importance, priority to the Bangsamoro people who are in dire need of land to start a living being farmers, however the members belonging to the second aggrupation must be given top priority in all aspect of rehabilitation.                        

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Groups urge UN Sec-Gen to get GRP, MILF back to nego table

October 29, 2008
   
Carolyn O. Arguillas/MindaNews   
Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:33

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 October)  – The Consortium of Bangsamoro Civil Society Organizations (CBCS) and other peace advocacy groups in Mindanao are appealing to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who will be in Manila for this week’s Global Forum on Migration and Development, to help bring the Philippine government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) back to the negotiating table as hundreds of thousands of civilians are bearing the brunt of the two-month renewed hostilities.

In a letter dated October 23, coursed through Ambassador Hilario Davide, the Philippines’ Head of Mission to the United Nations, the CBCS commended Ban Ki-moon for his August 13 appeal for “greater restraint, protection of all civilians,  as well as broader provision of access to humanitarian assistance” and, citing the “suffering of the people,” appealed to him “to effect, in the soonest possible time the intervention of the UN Department of Political Affairs as the most valuable contribution of the international community to our people’s age-old aspiration for peace settlement in the Southern Philippines.”

Earlier, on October 14, the Mindanao PeaceWeavers, a network of seven peace advocacy networks, including CBCS, also wrote Ban Ki-moon, seeking his “assistance in preserving the gains of the peace process in Mindanao and explor(ing) possibilities for a UN role in this regard considering the priorities of your office on peace and human security.” 

The MPW’s letter, signed by Gus Miclat, Executive Director of the Initiatives for International Development (IID), said the “urgent letter” was written “in the hope that your visit to the Philippines will be an opportunity for you to once again prevail upon the two parties in conflict in Southern Philippines to immediately halt the hostilities and return to the negotiating table as you have previously called on them to do.”

The MPW also told informed Ban Ki-moon “about the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Central Mindanao and other conflict affected areas in Southern Philippines.  With the recent decision of the Philippine Supreme Court on the unconstitutionality of the agreement on ancestral domain between the government and the MILF, the armed conflict is sure to heighten and the urgency of averting further loss of lives and properties is of paramount importance.”

The MPW requested Ban Ki-moon “for an audience with you while you are in Manila, bringing with us our representatives from conflict affected areas in Mindanao for a dialogue-meeting with you to further explore ways of collaboration with your good office.”

The MPW is still awaiting response from Ban Ki-moon’s office.

CBCS comprises at least a hundred Moro organizations, Guiamel Alim, executive director of Kadtuntaya Foundation, Inc., and a member of the Council of Elders, said. MindaNews received a copy of the letter containing the names and signatures of at least 50 representatives of the Moro groups.

Other groups also urge the resumption of the peace talks.

Amirah Lidasan, president of the Suara Bangsamoro party-list, told MindaNews she would like Ban Ki-moon “to look into the situation in Mindanao.”

She said they would find a way to give the UN Sec-Gen a copy of the initial findings of the National Interfaith Humanitarian Mission.

“ We also urge him to listen to the plea of the people – Moro, Christian and Lumad – to stop the war and pull-out AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines) and US troops in our communities and to help push the GRP to revoke its all-out war policy - the disarmament, demobilization, reintegration – and resume peace negotiations, not just with the MIlLF but with the NDF, too,” Lidasan said.

Professor Abhoud Syed Lingga executive director of  the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies, said the UN “has to seriously consider intervening in the Mindanao conflict before the humanitarian crisis will take place.”

“The UN secretary general has to send a delegation to assist the GRP and MILF find ways to resume talks,” he said.

MILF peace panel chair Mohagher Iqbal said he would like the UN Secretary-General to “help free the Bangsamoro people for their right to self determination” and to “get involved  in the GRP-MILF peace process.”

Dan Pantoja of the Mennonites’ Peacebuilders’ Community, wants Ban Ki-moon to “tell GRP-AFP to keep their checkpoints open for humanitarian aid especially among Muslim communities. Put more resources on peace and reconciliation programs among grassroots communities as implemented by inter-faith CSOs . Visit Mindanaos critical areas for global awareness.”

Zainuddin Malang, executive director of the Center for Moro Law and Policy said, “with all three branches of the state closing its doors on the fruit of 11 years of peace talks, the peace process has little chances of being revived without the intervention of influential foreign governments and international institutions like the United Nations. Only firm pressure from the international community can provide leverage to the voices of peace advocates to offset the influence of powerful vested conservative groups who oppose the peace process who fear that it will lead to a diminuition of their economic and political interests in the conflict-affected areas.”   (Carolyn O. Arguillas/MindaNews)

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What We should know about the declaration of unconstitutional of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain of the Bangsamoro People in Mindanao?

October 27, 2008

 Tuntayan Tano (We should know)

by Atty. Lanang Ali

 

There were several Petitions filed by officials of all Local Government Officials in areas affected by the MOA-AD in Mindanao and some other government officials and residents of in other areas who were personally against the interest and welfare of the Bangamoro people for one reason or the other    in the Supreme Court of the Philippines against the Government of the Republic of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP).  For emphasis and information of the Bangsamoro people, especially those belonging to the Muslim communities affected in Mindanao and in Muslim dominated areas, the Petitioners were Provincial Governor JESUS SACDALAN and/or Vice-Governor EMMANUEL PIÑOL of North Cotabato, CELSO L. LOBREGAT, City Mayor of Zamboanga City MAYOR LAWRENCE LLUCH CRUZ City Mayor of Iligan, Rep. MA. ISABELLE G. CLIMACO, District 1, and Rep. ERICO BASILIO A. FABIAN, District 2, Zamboanga City,  ROLANDO E. YEBES, in his capacity as Provincial Governor, FRANCIS H. OLVIS, in his capacity as Vice-Governor and Presiding Officer of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, CECILIA JALOSJOS CARREON, Congresswoman, 1st Congressional District, CESAR G. JALOSJOS, Congressman, 3rd Congressional District, and Members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of the Province of Zamboanga del Norte, namely, SETH FREDERICK P. JALOSJOS, FERNANDO R. CABIGON, JR., ULDARICO M. MEJORADA II, EDIONAR M. ZAMORAS, EDGAR J. BAGUIO, CEDRIC L. ADRIATICO, ELIXBERTO C. BOLANDO,JOSEPH BRENDO C. AJERO, NORBIDEIRI B. EDDING, ANECITO S. DARUNDAY, ANGELICA J. CARREON and LUZVIMINDA E. TORRIN, the other local and national government officials   Mayor NOEL N. DEANO, MUNICIPALITY OF LINAMON, MAYOR CHERRYLYN P. SANTOS-AKBAR, Basilan Province  were Petitioners-in-Intervention namely, ERNESTO M. MACEDA, JEJOMAR C. BINAY,  QUILINO L. PIMENTEL III, FRANKLIN M. DRILON and ADEL ABBAS TAMANO, SEN. MANUEL A. ROXAS,THE CITY OF ISABELA, BASILAN, SUHARTO T. MANGUDADATU, Provincial Governor of the Province of Sultan Kudarat, RUY ELIAS LOPEZ, in behalf of Indigenous Peoples in Mindanao (Not Belonging to the MILF RUY ELIAS LOPEZ, for and in his own behalf and on behalf of Indigenous Peoples in Mindanao Not Belonging to the MILF, CARLO B. GOMEZ, GERARDO S.DILIG, NESARIO G. AWAT, JOSELITO C. ALISUAG and RICHALEX G.  JAGMIS, as of Palawan, MARINO RIDAO and KISIN BUXANI. The Petitions was docketed by the Supreme Court as 183962, G.R. No. 183752, G.R. No. 183591, G.R. No. and G.R. No. 183893. For information on the Petitions please refer to these docket numbers of the Supreme Court. All these Petitions seemed to be prepared by the same Person, although the Petitioners came from different places and different walks of life.  

The Respondents were The Government of the Republic of the Philippines Peace Negotiating Panel (GRP), as represented by RODOLFO C. GARCIA, LEAH ARMAMENTO, SEDFREY CANDELARIA, MARK RYAN SULLIVAN and HERMOGENES ESPERON, in his capacity as the Presidential Adviser on Peace Process, Respondents,
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Only in Petition with docket No. G.R. No. 183951 that the Petitioners therein may had impleaded the the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), but there was no showing, whatsoever, that the said Respondent was duly served of the summons with a copy of the Petition; while the Petitioners in the other Petitions the record will show that the GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES PEACE NEGOTIATING PANEL, represented by its Chairman RODOLFO C. GARCIA, were duly served with summons.  At this juncture, nobody whosoever had authorized to represent the MILF or MILF Peace Panel Chairman Mohagher Iqbal as Respondent or as Respondent in Intervention, or in whatever capacity.

What are the important concerns on the following facts?

1. that all the local government officials directly involved the MOA-AD were under direct control and supervision of the Secretary of the Department of Interior and Local Government: The DILG Secretary, who was a member of the Cabinet of the President, can relay any information to any local government official in Mindanao relative to the MOA-AD, therefore, Vice-Governor Emmanuel Pinol of North Cotabato was lying when testified before the Supreme Court that there was a need of public consultation of the MOA-AD.    

    2. that GEN. HERMOGENES ESPERON, JR., the latter in his capacity as the present and duly-appointed Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) or the so-called Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process.  As such Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) being a member of the Cabinet of the President, he was presumed to have performed his job regularly, therefore, a mere unfounded allegation of Vice-Governor Emmanuel Pinol of North Cotabato who was evidently bias against the Muslims, cannot be the sole basis of the Supreme Court to declare the MOA-AD, which was product of several years of negotiation and months of legal review.       

Based on the forgoing facts, it is the conclusion of every Bangsamoro Moro who are concerned on the plight of MOD-AD that the non-signing of the MOA-AD was part of the Grand Plan of Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) not to sign any agreement reach by its negotiators, dissolve its Peace Panel and not to continue with the Peace Talks, for the following reasons:

1. Why was the MOA-AD not signed immediately after the GRP Peace Panel Chairman had affixed his initials thereon when there was nobody could stop him or when there was no legal impediment for signing?
    
2. Why did the GRP Peace Panel Chairman allow delay of the signing of the MOA-AD thus giving time and reason for the Parties not to sign the MOA-AD?

3. Considering that the MOA-AD was a major program of the President of the Philippines, Her Excellency Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, why did the whole machinery of the Executive Department fail to prevent or to neutralize any move from the Anti-MOA-AD local government Executives  in Mindanao who were against the signing of the MOA-AD, but what happened was that instead of convincing local government Executives  in Mindanao to support the signing of the MOA-AD, they supported the Petitions to declare the MOA-AD unconstitutional, thus the Supreme Court of the Philippines on the sole ground that the respondent GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES (GRP) PEACE NEGOTIATING PANEL had not conducted public consultations on the MOA-AD.
    
4. Why did the GRP PEACE NEGOTIATING PANEL assisted and represented by Solicitor General deliberately fail to protect the MOA-AD the in view of the (GRP) PEACE NEGOTIATING PANEL’s commitment to protect, but to the surprise of the MILF PEACE NEGOTIATING PANEL the President of the Philippines has expressly declared to the public, and reiterated by the Solicitor General in open court before the Supreme Court that she will not sign the MOA-AD in its present form or in any form. Chairman of does not anymore serve GRP’s interest notwithstanding its commitment to sign the MOA-AD.   

5. Why the GRP PEACE NEGOTIATING PANEL assisted and represented by Solicitor General deliberately fail to cite the fact that the MOA-AD was not yet a final agreement because at most it was only a framework agreement for the Comprehensive Compact to be negotiated by the Negotiating Parties, to agree on the final political solution to the Bangsamoro Problem and the armed conflict in Mindanao.  

The deliberation or discussions of the Comprehensive Compact first require the signing of the MOA-AD, serving as a Framework Agreement for the Comprehensive Compact. It agreed by the Parties that not to conduct public consultation while negotiation on substantive issues is on-going especially when the Parties are negotiating on sensitive issues.  Hence, Negotiating Parties during the negotiation of the MOA-AD the Parties have to strictly observe the confidentiality of the negotiation. Only the respective Principals and those indispensable in decision-making for the substantive issues on the negotiating table were informed.         
 
Thus, Congress can still conduct public consultations on the MOA-AD in passing said enabling law.   It is for this reason that the claim of the alleged lack of public consultation is untenable or unjustifiable on the issue of its unconstitutionality during the negotiation.  At any rate, the results of the negotiation will be submitted to the people, who are the stakeholders during the referendum which may be called for their ratification or rejection, rather than to stop the whole process, because it was declared unconstitutional.  Besides, the MOA-AD, including the Comprehensive Compact will still be submitted for purposes of legislation to pass an enabling Law. This process makes the difference negotiation and legislation, wherein in negotiation, confidentiality is observed especially on sensitive issues; while in legislation, public consultation is observed on all issues as a legal requirement.  As far as the MOA-AD is concerned, it is not yet late because if the GRP PEACE NEGOTIATING PANEL in the GRP-MILF Peace Talks under the strict supervision of the Cabinet Cluster E of the President, and after a Panel of Lawyers mandated by the President to review the MOA-AD, it is but reasonable and proper to give the benefit of the doubt to the recommendation of the  GRP PEACE NEGOTIATING PANEL for the signing of the MOA-AD, whose aim is for the peaceful resolution of the conflict in Mindanao. Thus, the GRP may file a Motion for Reconsideration, which the Supreme Court to FAVORABLY RECONSIDER its previous ruling that the MOA-AD was unconstitutional.   Lastly but not the least, in this jurisdiction any law may be amended at any time to change or improve a law for the better, to correct a defect, error, omission of a law.  For the reason that MOA-AD-AD, granting that an enabling law is passed by Congress, there is no need to declare the MOA-AD unconstitutional because the same may be amended at any time.                

Thus, the concerned Local Government Units and Non-Government Organizations (NGO’s) as well as Congress of the Philippines can conduct massive public consultations on the MOA-AD once the Supreme Court reconsiders its previous ruling of unconstitutionality of the MOA-AD-AD It is for this reason that the claim of the alleged lack of public consultation is untenable or unjustifiable on the issue of its unconstitutionality.  The fact remains that the problem in Mindanao is still there, the question is, did the Supreme Court, by declaring the MOA-AD unconstitutional, did it resolve the armed conflict in Mindanao? For all intents and purposes, the armed conflict, sufferings and destructions are still there, and which may even escalate or worsen at any time, because the Parties have no more trust and basis to continue the negotiation.  The GRP-MILF Peace Talks can still be salvaged if the Parties are practical, not too legalistic, considering that one Party as known to the other Party is a rebel liberation front, in their approach to the problem. Both Parties must be serious and credible to implement the letter and spirit of the General Framework of Agreement of Intent Between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) dated August 27, 1998 and the Agreement on the General Framework for the Resumption of Peace Talks Between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front dated March 24, 2001.  Had the MILF Peace Panel knew before hand that the Supreme Court of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines will take cognizance of the aforesaid Petitions, which were seeking to declare the MOA-AD, the MILF Peace Panel will certainly invoke the above-cited General Framework of Agreement of Intent Between the GRP and MILF dated August 27, 1998 and the of Peace Talks Between the GRP and the MlLF dated March 24, 2001 because whatever may be the action of the  Supreme Court on the said Petitions which were filed before it, the same will no longer be a product of negotiation, unlike the MOA-AD but an imposition.  This is the nature of judicial process where the court in any judicial controversy will always act showing the majesty or supremacy of the law whoever are the Parties may be. The important difference between negotiation and judicial determination is that in negotiation, the Parties should always observe the primacy of the negotiation in order to succeed. In judicial determination, only the Court finally determines the controversy submitted to it for resolution, nobody could interfere with it except to such determination of the Court following another procedure.  In the case at bar, since the GRP has lost the primacy of peace process, when it dissolved the GRP PEACE NEGOTIATING PANEL last month, without replacing it and when it made as pre-condition for the resumption of talks with the MILF the so-called Disarmament, Demobilization, and Re-integration or in short, DDR, when the GRP knows that as a matter of matter of practice in other countries with similar problem before, like East Timor, Aceh of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, and Ireland, to name a few, that DDR was implemented after the signing of the Peace Agreement. In Mindanao, the signing of the peace agreement was aborted when the Supreme Court of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines issued a Temporary Restraining Order, ordering the GRP PEACE NEGOTIATING PANEL to stop the signing of the MOA-AD.               

The Petitioners of the Petition seeking to declare the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) of the Bangsamoro people in Mindanao unconstitutional was initialed by the Chairman of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) Peace Panel and the Chairman of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). This declaration is devoid of merit with due respect to the Supreme Court.  The high court failed to take into consideration that the MOA-AD was a product of intense negotiation for several years between the GRP Peace Panel and the MILF Peace Panel with different and distinct principal and constituency.  

It is worthy to mention that the principal of the GRP Peace Panel was the President of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the principal of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front Chairman of the Central Committee of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front represented by its Chairman, formerly by Sheik Salamat Hashim succeeded by Al Haj Murad, upon his untimely demise.  At this juncture, it is worthy to mention that in the peace negotiation between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front there was conducted outside the Philippines with the presence and participation, or intervention of friendly governments, to wit: the Government of Malaysia, as Lead Facilitator and ; Libya, as alternate Facilitator of during the opening negotiation at Tripoli Libya;  also as Head of the International Monitoring Team (IMT); Brunei as Member of the International Monitoring Team (IMT); Japan as Member of the International Monitoring Team (IMT) Relief-Rehabilitation-Development; European Union as Member of the International Monitoring Team (IMT) Relief-Rehabilitation-Development.  It was also worthy to mention that on substantive issues, the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) had agreed on December 17, 1999 on the Rules and Procedures on the Conduct of Formal Peace Talks Between the GRP and the MILF.  
              
As guiding principle and mandate entered into between two (2) Parties of equal rights and liabilities in their deliberations during the formal peace talks, and in the interpretation of agreements, the GRP and the MILF Peace Panels shall all times conform to the letter and spirit of the General Framework of Agreement of Intent Between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front signed on August 27, 1998 at the Dawah Center, Crossing Simuay, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao. They shall clothed with proper credentials and authority duly signed by the President of the President, or in his authority in the case of the GRP; and by Chairman Salamat Hashim/Al Haj Murad in the case of the MILF, to bind and speak in behalf of the GRP and the MILF with the aim of continuing the peace negotiations until the Parties reach a negotiated political settlement of the armed conflict in Mindanao. To ensure the success of the negotiation, the Parties have abide with the rules of the negotiation as agreed by the Parties, thus, in Article V, General Provisions Section 1. , on Confidentiality, the Parties had agreed as follows to wit:

a.    The Panel Chairperson may mutually agree on the confidentiality of sensitive issues under negotiations.
b.    Limitations on access to or release of official records of the deliberations and minutes of the meetings shall be mutually agreed upon by the Chairpersons of the Peace Panels.

The above-cited rules are based on the study and experience that in negotiation, an element of confidentiality is necessary during the process of negotiation, especially while negotiating on sensitive issues. Therefore, lack of public consultation does not necessarily make the agreement reached by the GRP and MILF Panels on the MOA-AD unconstitutional. At any rate, the GRP and MILF Panels had agreed that after the signing of the MOA-AD there will be an advocacy to be conducted all throughout the conflict-affected areas in Mindanao for information dissemination of the MOA-AD. And later should the Parties will agree on the date of the plebiscite after the Comprehensive Compact is signed by the Parties to express their plebiscitary will on the MOA-AD. It is the humble opinion that the ruling of the Philippine Supreme Court has no legal basis on the ground that public consultation is not required by law during negotiation to ensure its success to resolve a political problem being undertaken by the Executive Department of Philippine Government. And later should the Parties will agree on the date of the plebiscite after the Comprehensive Compact is signed by the Parties to express their plebiscitary will on the MOA-AD. It is our humble opinion therefore that the ruling of the Philippine Supreme Court has no factual and legal basis on the ground that public consultation is not required by law during negotiation of a proposal in order to ensure the success of the negotiation; and in the in the instant case, to resolve a political problem/armed conflict in Mindanao being undertaken by the GRP Peace Panel under the Executive Department of Philippine Government. Legislation without Public consultation when it is required by law may make the Bill passed by Congress into law, unconstitutional.

The deliberate failure of the GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES (GRP) PEACE NEGOTIATING PANEL to failure protect the MOA-AD against its detractors when all the means were at its disposal to prevent the non-signing of the MOA-AD; including the filing of a Motion for Reconsideration, to seek to reconsider the Supreme Court’s ruling of unconstitutionality.  This incident of non-signing  of the MOA-AD may be considered another grievous grievance committed against the Bangsamoro people and perpetrated by the whole GRP machinery – Executive Department represented by the President of the Philippines, the Executive Secretary, the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process; the Senate, represented by some Senators who are mostly from the Opposition, and the Judiciary represented by the Supreme Court of the Philippines, which at the outset immediately issued a temporary restraining order (TRO),  ordering the members GRP Panel  to restrain and desist from signing the  MOA-AD ; and finally declared the MOA-AD unconstitutional  thus depriving the Bangsamoro people of their treaty rights which contain their inherent right to self-determination, all in violation of existing consensus points or agreements on the matter particularly the General Frame Agreements signed by the Parties such as the  General Framework of Agreement of Intent Between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front signed on August 27, 1998 and the Agreement on the General Framework for the Resumption of Peace Talks Between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front dated March 24, 2001.   

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MILF: Can we trust the gov’t if talks resume?

October 20, 2008

October 12, 2008

       Amid calls from various sectors including members of the international community  for the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to resume their peace talks, a member of the latter’s negotiating team posed these hard questions: “Can we trust the government again after what it did in Kuala Lumpur when it reneged and did not  sign the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD)? Who will guarantee that the government will honor commitment agreed by the parties if we talk to it again?

       Jun Mantawil, head of the MILF peace panel secretariat, disclosed to Luwaran.com in an interview that the MILF has lost its trust to the government after what it did to the MOA-AD in Malaysia.

       “It’s all the fault of the government why the talks had turned for the worst and in disarray,” he said, citing the lack of unified and coherent position of the government on the peace process.

He explained that it is really difficult to return to the negotiating table even assuming that the MILF so decides, citing the following reasons:

1.The Arroyo administration enjoys zero credibility with the MILF leadership. Trust is the most important component of peace-making, without which the undertaking is doomed;

2.The government has abandoned the MOA-AD, which it said will not be signed in its “present form or in any other form”. The MOA-AD provides the framework mechanism for discussion of the comprehensive compact, which is the political solution to the centuries-old Moro Problem in Mindanao. Unless and until ancestral domain aspect of the Tripoli Agreement of 2001, the third and last aspect, is settled the government and MILF cannot proceed to discuss the comprehensive compact. This is the procedure agreed by the parties including the Malaysian facilitator, and this will be followed;

3.The government disbanded its peace panel, which unwillingly absorbed all the blame for the so-called fiasco in the MOA-AD. However, it is a fact, aside from being part of established procedure of the talks, that in every meeting of the two peace panels their respective credentials to commit and bind their principals were presented and major decisions made by them were cleared first with their principals. The initialing of the MOA-AD in Kuala Lumpur on July 27, 2008 was mentioned in the State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Arroyo on July 28, as part of its successes in peace-making. This proves that the President knew every important step or part of the peace talks, contrary to what Press Secretary Jesus Dureza said, even rebuffing his successor to the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP), Sec. Hermogenes Esperon;

4.The government has changed its peace policy from talking to armed groups to talking to “communities”. This it “frontloaded with DDR”(dimilitarization, demobilization, and reintegration), which is no less than to force the MILF and other rebel groups to surrender their firearms to the government before negotiation starts; and

5.The government also made it a precondition that talks can only resume if the MILF surrenders its so-called rogue commanders, Ameril Umbra Kato, Abdullah “Bravo” Macapaar, and Aleem Ali Pangalian. This is another imposition, which is a violation of established procedure contained in GRP-MILF Ceasefire Agreement. This Agreement provides that any violation of either of the two parties will be investigated and the findings of such investigation will become the basis of punishment for the erring party by its principal.

The signing of the MOA-AD on August 5, 2008 was aborted after the Philippine Supreme Court issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) on the petition of some Filipino politicians including North Cotabato vice governor Emmanuel Piñol and Zamboanga City mayor Celso Lobregat, the two most outspoken critics of the GRP-MILF Peace Talks.

Piñol, a Catholic seminarian for one year but quitted for love of the world, accused the MILF of buying airplanes, war vessels, and other war equipment once it gets into power in Mindanao and secede. On the other hand, Lobregat, a descendant of a Spanish soldier married to a local woman, opposed every move to empower the Moros, saying they never owned Mindanao in any time in the past.

After the cancellation of the signing ceremony, three commanders of the MILF, out of extreme frustrations, started to attack military targets in Lanao del Norte and Sarangani. In the case of North Cotabato, government forces started the series of confrontation here by attacking MILF forces 2.5 kilometers away from the highway in the town of Aleosan.

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