The military has authorized the deployment of 125 certified
members of the Indigenous People (IP) back to their villages in order to assist
in the development of their ancestral communities.
Capt. Patrick Martinez, spokesperson of the army’s 4th
Infantry Division here, said on Tuesday that the 125 IPs are regular members of
the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) with a rank of private to sergeants.
He said that the IP soldiers, most of them of the Manobos
and Higa-onon tribes, underwent an alternative learning system (ALS) accredited
by the Department of Education (DepEd).
Before the end of this year, the IP soldiers would be
deployed to 35 pilot villages to start their own respective ALS cells and hand
down mainstream education to members of the tribal communities, Martinez
“These soldiers range from privates to sergeants. Unarmed,
the IP soldiers would wear the traditional tribal garb once they are integrated
back to their villages,” Martinez
The 4th Infantry Division maintains military jurisdiction in
eight provinces – Misamis Oriental, Bukidnon, Camiguin, Agusan Del Norte,
Agusan Del Sur, Surigao Del Norte, Surigao Del Sur and Dinagat. Of these, only
island provinces of Camiguin and Dinagat are free of armed communist rebel.
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