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Nature's Presences deals with traditional indigenous music among the Manobo Dulangan, T'boli, Obo, and the Tagakaolo in Southern Mindanao. Shot in the picturesque Lake Sebu, the heartland of the indigenous peoples from this region, the documentary shows that traditional music remains practised despite the rapidly accelerating and deep Visayanization of places where the T'boli have been the first to settle in prehistory. Songs learnt from the ancestors are still acquired through imitation and these have been put to a number of pragmatic uses, from managing negative emotions (thus aesthetically transforming raw sentiments like anger to the level of art) to the tasks of putting a baby to sleep and of indulging one's self in leisurely music-making after work. Some songs are the basis of instrumental music like that rendered on bamboo polychordal zither togo, while others, especially those played in whistle flute sloli, disclose human attachments to nature and with Other
SURRENDER. Kalamansig Mayor Rolando Garcia (in blue shirt) receives a rifle from one of the six New People's Army rebels who voluntarily surrendered with their firearms during ceremonies held at the municipal government center of Kalamansig, Sultan Kudarat on Sunday (Oct. 17, 20231). Looking on are military commanders Lt. Col Allen Van L Estrera of the 37th Infantry Battalion (2nd from right) and Colonel Eduardo B. Gubat (right), the 603rd Brigade commander. (Photo courtesy of 6ID) CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao - The military's two-pronged approach in dealing with communist combatants in the mountains of Kalamansig, Sultan Kudarat has turned out to be effective, an Army officer here said Monday. "The two-pronged approach is a continuous military pressure against rebels, and at the same time highlighting the government's offer for them to rejoin the mainstream society peacefully," Lt. Col Allen Van L. Estrera, Army's 37th Infantry Battalion (37IB) commander, told r
DECEIVED. The eight former NPA guerrillas who belonged to the Manobo Dulangan tribal community in Bagumbayan, Sultan Kudarat pose for a photo with the military, following their surrender on Thursday (Oct. 14, 2021). They also turned in 13 firearms and three explosives during their surrender. (Photo courtesy of 6ID) CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao -Some eight members of the Manobo Dulangan indigenous peoples community in Sultan Kudarat province, who claimed to have been promised support for their families in exchange for joining the communist New People's Army (NPA), surrendered to the military on Thursday. Lt. Col. Romel S. Valencia, Army's 7th Infantry Battalion (7IB) commander, said the surrenderers also turned in 13 firearms and three explosives during the surrender rites in Barangay Masiag, Bagumbayan, Sultan Kudarat. Aley Danyan alias Ka Dandan, the leader of the surrendering group, said they belonged to the Platoon My Phone of the NPA East Daguma Front South Regional Command-Fa