Tuesday, April 28, 2015

MILF: Inter-agency covenant signed to address issue on Muslim population

Posted to the MILF Website (Apr 27): Inter-agency covenant signed to address issue on Muslim population

Inter-agency covenant signed to address issue on Muslim population


Three government agencies recently signed a covenant to pool in is potential and resources to start an action to address the long decade issue on the number of Muslim population in the country. 

Representatives from the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF), the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) and the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) signed a Memorandum of Agreement for collaboration to count the Muslims in the Philippines.

It was agreed that the NEDA will provide the necessary support to NCMF on the assistance that it will provide to PSA to generate a realistic and updated figure of the nation’s followers of Islamic faith in this year’s population census.

In the Article II Section 8 of Republic Act 9997, the legislation that created the NCMF, the agency is mandated to “Assist the National Statistics Office (now PSA) in conducting census in the actual population of Muslim Filipinos in the country.”  

The NCMF chief, Secretary Yasmin Busran-Lao, extended its utmost gratitude and appreciation to the two agencies for the support extended to the crucial undertaking.

The three government institutions held a high level meeting on July 21, 2014 and it was agreed to include “religion” and the NCMF personnel as “Enumerators” in the 2015 Population Census (POPCEN).  

Muslim population is roughly estimated at around five per cent of the largely dominated Roman Catholic nation. Based on the 2010 Census of Population and Housing, the country’s total population is 92,337,852.

Muslim populace is concentrated in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao comprised of the provinces of Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Sulu, Tawi-tawi and the cities of Marawi and Lamitan.

http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/welcome/item/913-inter-agency-covenant-signed-to-address-issue-on-muslim-population

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