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Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año ordered on Thursday, April 28, 67 local government units to comply with a law that guarantees seat of Indigenous Peoples from provincial legislative councils down to the barangay level. Año said he has already instructed
The presence of presidential candidate Ka Leody de Guzman and his team may have agitated the indigenous people in Quezon town of Bukidnon to enter a 1,000 hectare pineapple plantation that is subject of a land dispute, an official of the Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Tuesday, April 19.