{"id":132219,"date":"2017-11-18T20:26:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T01:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=132219"},"modified":"2017-11-18T20:26:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T01:26:06","slug":"tabuk-tribes-ethno-linguistic-groups-modify-unified-peace-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/18\/tabuk-tribes-ethno-linguistic-groups-modify-unified-peace-pact\/","title":{"rendered":"Tabuk tribes, ethno linguistic groups modify unified peace pact"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"This<\/a>
This came as the migrants felt the inequality in the application of the native practice. (Photo<\/a> by Leocadio Sebastian\/Flickr<\/a>, CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TABUK CITY, Kalinga \u2014Natives of Kalinga province, including ethno-linguistic groups here, adopted on Friday the unified ITabuk pagta (code of peace pact laws) which will expand the coverage of the indigenous justice system from the original tribe members to other ethnic groups who migrated in the city.<\/p>\n

Engineer Andres Ngao-i, president of the Kalinga Bodong Council (KBC) and chairman of the Task Force created by city Mayor\u00a0 Ferdinand Tubban through an Executive Order, said the deal addresses the call of the migrants for their inclusion in the cultural practices of settling disputes despite their being \u201cnon-binudngan\u201d(original Ikalinga natives).<\/p>\n

This came as the migrants felt the inequality in the application of the native practice.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith this in effect, there will be no more discrimination in the implementation of the indigenous system even if you are a migrant or a native as long as you are a resident of the city,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said Mayor Tubban issued EO 26-2017 in August 2017 \u201corganizing a task force to formulate a unified \u2018pagta\u2019 for the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

The task force is composed of 11 members, three consultants and 36 ethnic group representatives to include the Tagalogs, Muslims, I-Benguet, Sadanga, Ilocano, Cagayanons, Mountain Province’\u00a0 tribes and sub-tribe representatives who deliberated and formulated the draft code which was presented and adapted by the community during Friday\u2019s summit.<\/p>\n

Ngao-i said the unified pagta, like the bilateral pagta of the sub tribes, which existed for almost a century now, will be used for generations by those who will come after them.<\/p>\n

Tribes in Kalinga, he said, consider the community\u2019s role and participation in the attainment of peace among the tribes, to keep the relationship of the people intact.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody shares and contributes to restore peace in cases when the peace pact is severed due to violations of one or more of the tribe members,\u201d adding that the unified pagta was created by the members of the community for all residents in the city.<\/p>\n

He said one of the important provisions of the peace pact, an adaption of the bilateral agreements of the sub-tribes, is the inclusion of the protection of visitors of those covered by the pagta, including the safety of their properties.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are a visitor of a resident, you cannot be injured or your properties damaged or stolen because it would be a crime committed against the resident . In this case, the bodong holders are mandated to immediately act for reparation or restitution or to penalize the party who violated,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

With the adoption, \u201cwe will fine tune it to input the suggestions from representatives of the tribes and ethno-linguistic groups\u201d with the final copy to be submitted to the legislative branch for them to come up with a resolution of support to the pagta, he added.<\/p>\n

The draft was carefully crafted, adopting the existing national laws with the inclusion of the bilateral agreements between the sub-tribes of Kalinga and the cultural practices in settling disputes.<\/p>\n

Ngao-i, who is also regional president of the council of elders of the Department of Education\u2019s Indigenous Peoples Education (IPED), will push for pagta’s inclusion in the curriculum of students in Tabuk.<\/p>\n

Tubban, in a statement on Friday, said the \u201cresult of the ITabuk congress will be a standard by-laws of the different sub tribes which he hoped will be adopted by all sub-tribes in the city.<\/p>\n

Former mayor Camilo Lammawin, who was also present during the Congress, reiterated that \u201cpeace process is a never ending work. It is not a magic which when signed will be adopted immediately but effort will have to be exerted to organize the people and make the residents hold on to their desire for peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Lammawin was mayor, he created the Matagoan bodong consultative council and started the consultation with the people of Tabuk but the issue of binudngan and non-binudngan had always barred the continuation of something that will cover everybody in Tabuk.<\/p>\n

Lammawin congratulated the task force for the crafting the draft pagta.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaking the pagta is difficult, many brains are needed to formulate it to come up with standards in handling the fast changing situation in the city,\u201d and the task force was able to make one for the city.<\/p>\n

City Council Committee on Rules chair Zorayda Wacnang said the \u201cratification, adaption of the task force\u2019 draft means that we have an itabuk code of law that will be operative,\u201d and will apply with uniformity to all Tabuke\u00f1os.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe drafted this regulation with the hope of furthering the propagation of peace, foster peace between and among community members of Tabuk city,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She added that the code is a creation of the people.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully that they will take this as their own. This is mine, it is a social contract between the community and the government, a social contract between the state and the people,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

More have yet to be done, she said, such as the translation of the final copy to Ilocano and the Kalinga dialect before the IEC will start to roll off in the communities and residences. (PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TABUK CITY, Kalinga \u2014Natives of Kalinga province, including ethno-linguistic groups here, adopted on Friday the unified ITabuk pagta (code of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":132230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[33907,33908,33906,33909],"class_list":["post-132219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-ethno-linguistic-groups","tag-kalinga-province","tag-tabuk-tribes","tag-unified-itabuk-pagta","mauthors-liza-agoot","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}