79% of Muslims in favor of Bangsamoro Organic Law — SWS
MANILA, Philippines — Majority of Muslims nationwide are in favor of the approval of the proposed Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL), according to the latest Social Weather Stations survey.
The poll released Monday night found that 79 percent of Muslims in the Philippines are in favor of the BOL, with 67 percent saying they definitely want it while 12 percent said they somewhat want it.
Among the Muslim respondents, 14 percent were undecided, 4 percent said they don't want the proposal while 3 percent said they definitely don't want it. This garners a net approval score of +72 among Filipino Muslims.
In other religions, the net approval of the BOL was +15 among Iglesia ni Cristos, +10 among Catholics and +9 among other Christians.
The survey also found that 78 percent of Muslims know about the BOL, with 10 percent having extensive knowledge, 35 percent have partial but sufficient knowledge and 33 percent have only a little knowledge.
Among other religions, 65 percent of Catholics, 61 percent of Iglesia ni Cristos and 61 percent of other Christians said they have a little knowledge about the proposal.
Those who have partial but sufficient knowledge about the BOL were highest among Muslims with 45 percent.
Majority of Muslims also believe that the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is capable of governing the proposed Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). About 76 percent of Muslims said the MILF is capable of governing the BARMM, consisting of 56 percent saying they are definitely capable and 21 percent said somewhat capable.
Mindanao as a whole
In Mindanao alone, 27 percent of adults said they definitely want the BOL, 14 percent somewhat want it, 9 percent somewhat don't want it and 22 percent definitely don't want it.
A plurality of 28 percent remain undecided on the BOL, the balance of opinion leaning towards approval with a +9 net approval.
In Visayas, net approval was at +17 while it was +16 and + 13 in balance Luzon and Metro Manila, respectively.
Among adults in Mindanao, 63 percent have knowledge about the BOL while the remaining 22 percent said they have almost none or no knowledge about it.
The poll also showed that net approval was higher among those who have sufficient about the BOL with a rating of +43 compared to those with only a little knowledge at +17 and -9 among those with almost no knowledge about the proposal.
The survey was released after the plebiscite Mindanao but it was conducted from December 16 to 19, 2018 with separate samples from Metro Manila, balance Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. The poll was conducted among 1,440 adults using face-to-face interviews with sampling error margins of ±2.6 percent for national percentages, and ±5 percent each for regional percentages.
For centuries, the Bangsamoro people have been fighting for their right to self-determination. The right to self-determination means the collective right of people to determine its own future, including the right to determine their political status and to freely pursue its economic, social, spiritual and cultural development.
The last Plebiscite Committee leaves the distribution center in Buluan, Maguindanao for Tamontaka in Cotabato City a little past 6 a.m. on Monday as the first day of the plebiscite on the Bangsamoro Organic Law starts on Monday, January 21.
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— COMELEC (@COMELEC) January 20, 2019
Commission on Elections spokesman James Jimenez said over the weekend that as high as 75 percent of the more than two million voters from Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), as well as the cities of Isabela in Basilan and Cotabato in Maguindanao are expected to go out and cast their votes.
A second plebiscite day is set for February 6 for areas in North Cotabato and Lanao del Norte.
Lawmakers in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao have filed a bill at the Bangsamoro Transition Authority that will require clear labeling of food with pork and pork by-products in restaurants in the region.
If passed, establishments in ARMM will be required to comply with labeling, display and advertisement regulations that will be created by a Fast Food Labeling Council also proposed in the bill.
The Bangsamoro government participates in a global hunger and malnutrition summit abroad where its representative talked about how constituent communities are struggling to address both.
In a privilege presentation, the physician Kadil Sinolinding Jr., a member of the 80-seat Bangsamoro regional parliament, told participants to the June 15-16 Second Global Parliamentary Summit Against Hunger and Malnutrition in Valparaiso in Chile, South America that hunger and malnutrition are two serious issues besetting the Southern Philippine autonomous region.
The summit was organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations that, along with other UN agencies, have current humanitarian projects in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. — AFP
Muslim merchants in Amai Manabilang, Lanao del Sur are certain of improvements in their trade ties with Christian counterparts in Bukidnon province in Region 10 once the P25 million worth market building project in their municipality gets done.
Many of the farmers in the hinterland Amai Manabilang town in the first district of Lanao del Sur in the Bangsamoro region are former guerillas of the Moro National Liberation Front and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, now producing potatoes, lettuce and other high-value short-term crops.
Lanao del Sur Gov. Mamintal Adiong, Jr. says Saturday they are grateful to the Ministry of the Interior and Local Government-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao for providing Amai Manabilang with a P25 million market building project. — AFP
Merchants and politicians support the proposed creation of a new Bangsamoro regional capitol in Parang town in Maguindanao del Norte, certain of its positive impact on trading centers in the area and in two other provinces nearby.
The 80-member interim parliament of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao is now deliberating on the Bangsamoro Transition Authority Bill 43, the enabling measure for the transfer of the regional capitol to Parang, a historic seaside town in Maguindanao del Norte.
Parang is connected to a number of towns in Lanao del Sur, also in BARMM, and in Zamboanga del Sur in Administrative Region 12, via portions of the Secretary Narciso Ramos Highway, fully concreted in 1995 by the regional government then of the now defunct Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. — AFP
A tornado from the sea flattened shanties, felled dozens of palm and orchard trees and damaged boats in Datu Blah Sinsuat town in Maguindanao del Norte Saturday.
Mayor Marshall Sinsuat told reporters Tuesday he has dispatched emergency responders to attend to the needs of affected villagers in Barangay Nalkan, worst hit by the tornado, something they have never experienced before.
Two large cattle were killed when falling coconut trees hit both, a report from the Nalkan barangay government stated.
"Six small motorized fishing boats were also damaged," Sinsuat said. — The STAR/John Unson
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