Aetas in Pampanga Receives Land Certificate
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Written by Loren
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Friday, 03 July 2009 |
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Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title (CADT) to 7,440.10 hectares of land around Mount Pinatubo were given to some 454 Aeta families in Pampanga.President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, together with the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) in partnership with the Project Development Institute (PDI), granted the title in Floridablanca in Pampanga. According to NCIP Region III Director Salong Sunggod, the CADT No. RO3-FLO-1206-057 for the Aetas' ancestral land comes 12 years after the establishment of the NCIP. This was the first clean title distributed by the commission. PDI Executive Director Aurea Miclat-Teves said the approved and declared net land area of 7,440.10 hectares cover the barangays of Mawakat and Nabuklod in Floridablanca, Pampanga, plus a portion of of San Marcelino, Zambales, and a portion of Barangay Batiawan in Subic, Zambales. The 454 Aeta families who will benefit will not face any counterclaims after the title is issued to them. [via] |
