Duterte Teken Bangsamoro Autonomous Right Muslim

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia – President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte signed a law establishing an autonomous Islamic region aimed at ending a half-century rebellion in Mindanao.

Conflict cost many lives, displaced millions of poor Filipinos and stopped investment management in the southern part of the country.

Presidential spokesman Harry Roque reported that Duterte "had just signed the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) Bangsamoro (BBL)."

Duterte, the first Philippine president of Mindanao, said he signed the law after set a deadline on Wednesday.
"BBL has been signed, but I will come back because I have an event with Jaafar and Murad," Duterte said in reference to the president of the political affairs of the Islamic Liberation Front Moro Ghadzali Jaafar and the president of the Islamic Liberation Front. Moro (MILF) Murad. Ebrahim

"I would also like to speak to Nur (Founder of the Moro National Liberation Front, Nur Misuari) so that we can have it by the end of the year. It wants it and suspend the application of the federal system. "The Bangsamoro law is one of the conditions of a peace agreement between the government and the MILF, the largest Muslim rebel group in the Philippines, "said Duterte in a press release issued by ABS CBN News

in 2014.

As an organic law, BOL will pave the way for the creation of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, replacing the Muslim Autonomous Region of Mindanao (ARMM). [196] 59010] The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region has wider powers to have its own judicial and parliamentary system. are not allowed to have the police and the soldiers themselves. The two security institutions are still held by the central government

Presidential peace adviser Jesus Dureza said earlier this week: "The Beleid would be a new beginning for all Bangsamoro and citizens to work together for Mindanao and peace throughout the country ". Reported by the Xinhua News Agency, official statistics represent about 120,000 deaths since the early 1970s between government forces and Muslim rebels. The dead are not only militants but also innocent civilians.

The Philippine government and the MILF sign a peace agreement in 2012 and end the insurgency. In 2014, they adopted BBL legislation to defend peace in the southern Philippines at the legislative level.

(sab / nat)