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The urgent need for a Bangsamoro non-Moro indigenous peoples code and more effective risk assessment policies are brought up in two closed-door briefings
Since 2005, the Tedurays have been lobbying for the government's formal recognition of their ancestral domain. The urgent priority should be the approval of an IP Code to address these land issues.
Forced to vacate their shoreline homes in 2020, Teduray residents were buried in mud after fatal landslides triggered by Severe Tropical Storm Paeng hit them in October 2022. Private resorts have since taken over, one of them owned by a political family.