Kalinga-Tabuk

Tabuk

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Official Title:  Kalinga-Apayao Zone of  Life.
Department:   Kalinga, Mountain Province
Region:  northern Luzon in the Cordillera.
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Ethnic Mix: Indigenous
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Date of Establishment:   1990 in a public declaration.
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Persons/organizations involved in establishment:
Leadership: Local elders, oranising through a “Badong Congress” held April 14-15 1989], which sought
        to revive traditional peace maintaining methods involving a voluntary agreement [badong],
        peace pact “holders [pangats] and everyone being responsible for individuals and families of
        “the other side”.
 
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Further Comments: The area has been described as one of the most highly militarised and least developed areas,  and the indigenous people as among the fiercest in the country, whose traditional system of local truces and peace pacts, designed to prevent the escalation of inter-tribal blood conflicts, had fallen into disuse and needed to be revived. The Kalinga people have led local indigenous resistance to government development schemes - including the damming of local rivers - and to exploitation by outside mining and logging companies.
 
 
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Last Updated: December 2005