Bangsamoro Organic Law

Capundan, Bea Marella R.
Assignment #1 – Midterm
BSA2I 5:00-6:00 MWF ZSC 113
1. The Bangsamoro Organic Law

The Bangsamoro Organic Law or the Republic Act 11054 repeals the act that
created the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao to create a new political entity
called the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. The organic law
identifies that Bangsamoro people as those who were considered natives or original
inhabitants of Mindanao, the Sulu archipelago and its adjacent islands at the advent of
the Spanish colonization.
The new Bangsamoro Autonomous Region will take form of a
parliamentary-democratic government headed bya Chief Minister and 80 members of
parliamentary, among others. The law says that the Bangsamoro Government shall
exercise authority over the 55 specified matters in the law (Administration of justice,
Agriculture, Budgeting, Civil Service, Creation of sources of revenues, Education and
skills training, Eminent Domain, etc.) without prejudice to the government supervision of
the President of the Philippines. It is given fiscal autonomy to achieve economic
self-sufficiency and genuine development.
The law also says that 75% of national taxes and fees collected in the region will
go to the national government. It will also be given a 5% annual block grant from the
national government, which will be automatically appropriated in the budget. In the 1st
year following the effectivity of the law, the block grant shall be 5% of the net national
internal revenue tax collection and the net collection of the Bureau of Customs in the
last 3 fiscal years. With regards to the security of the region, members of the Ar med
Forces of the Philippines deployed in the region will still be under the national
government’s supervision. The Philippine National Police will directly supervise and
maintain the Bangsamoro Regional Police Office. The Philippine Coast Guard shall
establish and directly supervise a regional office in the Bangsamoro Region.
2. Positive Effects of the Bangsamoro Organic Law
1. It serves as the concrete solution to correct the historical injustice done against
the Bangsamoro Muslims of the Philippines. In creating the BARRM and putting
the BOL into effect, the Bangsamoro people will be finally recognized before the
law as a people with a distinct historical and cultural identity. It leads to the
recognition of their birthright to their ancestral homeland and along with it, the
right to chart political future grounded in that identity. It safeguards and promotes
the fundamental human rights of minorities in the Bangsamoro territory.
2. For years, this meant that areas in

Mindanao were left behind while the
rest of the country moved forward with
development. The Bangsamoro
Organic Law will give way to the creation of the BARMM. BARMM's proponents
believe that it will be more equipped to govern the people in the region, and thus
more likely to bring about economic growth, stability, prosperity, and improved
quality of life for all. It will give the Bangsamoro people the chance for self-rule
and self-determination. A better-governed Bangsamoro region would mean more
people getting adequate support from the government – better access to schools,
hospitals and health centers, livelihood opportunities. Assured funding through
the block grant could mean higher chances of critical infrastructure getting built –
roads, classrooms, bridges, irrigation canals. Good governance would then
dampen reasons to turn radical and use violence. The youth would be in school,
instead of being in terrorist camps.
People with better paying, honest jobs
would be harder to lure into crime.
3. The OLBARMM - the latest version of

the BBL passed during the Duterte
administration - reconciles versions of
the proposed measure acceptable to
both the government and the rebel
groups. In the peace deal that led to
the creation of CAB in 2014, the MILF
promised to decommission its troops
and end the decades-long rebellion
once the national government delivers
its commitment of a new Bangsamoro
region.
4. The BARMM promotes inclusiveness.

It shall open its doors to all people of
the Bangsamoro homeland which
includes the Christian community.
3. Negative Effects of the Bangsamoro

Organic Law
1. It leads to the “destruction of the

Republic of the Philippines, the dismemberment of its territory, the fragmentation
of its people, the despoliation of its natural and human resources, and the
wreckage of its tripartite system of government”.According to PHILCONSA, the
creation of a Bangsamoro political entity is contrary to the Constitution which
created only provinces, cities, municipalities and barangays, and autonomous
regions in Muslim Mindanao and the Cordilleras, calling BAR an “interloper” or a
“stranger.” The group also called out the grant of legislative powers to the
Bangsamoro parliament, such as the power to grant tax exemptions and
incentives, to create government-owned and controlled corporations, and to
declare nature reserves, aquatic parks, forests, watershed reservations and other
protected areas – powers which are reserved to Congress.
2. The national government will receive less taxes.
3. It may succeed in bringing peace and stability in Mindanao, but it will have little
chance at success in the area good governance. The BBL is pro-peace and
stability but it lacks teeth to reform the prevailing politics and governance in
ARMM that resulted in its provinces being one of the poorest in the country. The
bicameral conference committee did not include the "anti-dynasty" provision in
the final version of the proposed Bangsamoro Organic Law after some members
“strongly opposed” it.
4. BARMM will face the very similar problem of being seen by its opponents in
Muslim Mindanao as the creation of an agreement between the MILF and Manila.
The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters at the heart of the January 2015
Mamasapano massacre that curtailed efforts by the administration of Benigno
Aquino to establish BARMM are a splinter group of the MILF opposed to the
negotiations between the MILF and Manila. The Maute Group that led the five-
month siege of Marawi City in 2017 are also opposed to the MILF and its
negotiations with Manila. Terrorist attacks by local groups in the ARMM continue
despite the invocation of martial law across all of Mindanao and the passage of the
Bangsamoro Organic Law. Such attacks are likely to persist for the foreseeable
future and pose another ongoing challenge for the Bangsamoro Organic Law and
the BARMM if and when it is established.

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Capundan, Bea Marella R.

1. The Bangsamoro Organic Law

2. For years, this meant that areas in

3. The OLBARMM - the latest version of

4. The BARMM promotes inclusiveness.

3. Negative Effects of the Bangsamoro

1. It leads to the “destruction of the

2. The national government will receive less taxes.

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