BAGUIO CITY â The realization of the over-20-year-old constitutional provision mandating the establishment of an autonomous region in the Cordillera is the key to the advancement of the indigenous peoplesâ interests and the development of rural communities. This is the advocacy of lawyer Amador Batay-an, director of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) in the Cordillera, who said that the change in the present system of managing the affairs of the region by devolving the national functions to the regional government will address the problems of the Cordillerans with regards...
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