Indigenous people from Southern Palawan are staging a nine-day hunger strike from December 2 to December 10 to campaign for land reform after being in Manila since September. The struggle for land and ongoing violence in their region compels them to continue their protest. Rustene Leoncio, an 18-year-old Molbog indigenous person, is participating in the hunger strike outside the Department of Agrarian Reform in Quezon City.
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Leoncio and the other Molbog and Palaw’an people arrived in Manila last September 13, in the hopes of raising awareness about the 50-year land struggle in Balabac, Palawan. They came from Mariahangin in Bugsuk Island, Balabac. In 2023, DAR Secretary Conrado Estrella issued an order exempting parcels of land in Bugsuk — included in the previous land exchange between the elder Marcos and Cojuangco — from the coverage of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program. This reverses the notice of coverage that DAR issued back in 2014.
Documents related to the island resort of SMC subsidiary Bricktree Properties Incorporated said that the project area covers 5,567.54 hectares in total. Before the strike outside DAR’s office, the group had been staying on Jesuit campus grounds for the past months. They miss home. But they don’t want to go back empty-handed.Leoncio said. It was a day of festivities, Leoncio recalled, and they were at the basketball court holding a. Then there were shouts. Armed men from San Miguel had come, Leoncio and the others heard.
The locals who were displaced when Cojuangco acquired properties in Bugsuk and Pandanan were “voluntarily relocated to other islands by the military,” wrote anthropologist Noah Theriault in 2014. PARTNERS. Tarhata Pelayo, 62, says she misses her family in Mariahangin. With her is her husband Eusebio Pelayo, 69. Photo by Iya Gozum/Rappler
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES HUNGER STRIKE LAND REFORM SOUTHERN PALAWAN MANILA
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