80 ‘Aetas’ to benefit if island placed under land reform

Boracay Island. MY BORACAY GUIDE

MANILA – Eighty Aetas in Boracay could qualify as beneficiaries should President Rodrigo Duterte pushes through his plan to put the island resort under the land reform program, said the Malacañang.

“Following the President’s instruction to prioritize indigenous people, there are possibly eighty individuals from the Aeta village in Boracay Island who could qualify as agrarian reform beneficiaries subject to screening,” Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque said on Friday.

On May 30, the President reiterated his plan to declare the entire island of Boracay as a land reform area.

“The President’s decision to put Boracay under land reform is in line with Presidential Proclamation No. 1064 signed last 2006 and affirmed constitutional by the Supreme Court classifying parts of the island into forestland and into agricultural land,” Roque said.

He added that according to the Department of Agrarian Reform, “an initially identified 18 to 20 hectares, with no structures, can be immediately placed under agrarian reform subject to further ground verification survey.”/PN

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