Galvez declares end of war with MILF; MILF honors him as “Soldier of Peace”
CAMP DARAPANAN, Sultan Kudarat) -- With no firearms and no armed escorts, Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Carlito Galvez entered the Moro Islamic...
Duterte on Bangsamoro plebiscite: “I will campaign for the ‘yes'” vote
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 09 September) -- President Rodrigo Duterte has announced he would campaign for a "yes" vote in the January 21, 2019...
Iqbal says 2 of 3 BIFF factions OK MILF’s peace overtures; most radical rejects
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 05 September) -- A radical faction of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) Front has rejected overtures from...
Bangsamoro plebiscite set for January 21
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 04 Sept) -- The plebiscite to ratify RA 11054 or the Organic Law for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim...
Duterte to residents in proposed Bangsamoro: discuss the law, vote in the plebiscite
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 06 August) -- President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday urged residents of the proposed Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM)...
Moro people urged to register to ensure ratification of Bangsamoro law
CAMP DARAPANAN, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao (MindaNews / 29 July) -- Moro people of voting age should register with the Commission on Elections to boost...
Signed Bangsamoro law defective; Duterte has to sign anew
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews /29 July) -- The signing of RA 11054 or the Organic Law for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (OLBARMM)...
Bangsamoro law signed July 27, exactly 10 years after MOA-AD was initialed
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 28 July) -- Signed Friday, July 27, not Thursday or earlier than Thursday.
Malacanang released late Friday afternoon copy of RA...
Proposed Bangsamoro law ratified, awaits President Duterte’s signature
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 24 July) -- The House of Representatives on Tuesday ratified the report of the Bicameral Conference Committee on the final...
From ARMM to BARMM: ARMM’s elected in BTA; ARMM with BTC as “caretakers”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 24 July) -- The elected officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) will be able to complete their...
Murad: BARMM is “very much above ARMM”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 22 July) -- Members of the Central Committee of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and commanders of its armed...
MILF chair on bicam version of Bangsamoro law: “80 to 90% CAB-compliant”
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 14 July) -- The chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) said they will hold consultations with the Bangsamoro...
The Bangsamoro law: not fully CAB-compliant but “it’s ARMM plus definitely”
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 14 July) -- It may not fully comply with the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), the peace agreement signed...
What makes the new Bangsamoro political entity “more than ARMM”?
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 14 July) -- Flashing the peace sign shortly after suspending the Day 3 session at 10:50 p.m. on Wednesday with...
New Bangsamoro political entity: from ARMM to BARMM; from BBL to OLBARMM
ORTIGAS (MindaNews / 10 July) -- From ARMM to BARMM.
The new autonomous political entity that will replace the 28-year old Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao...
Bangsamoro Basic Law: BTC, Senate and House versions
On July 9 to 13, the Bicameral Conference Committee (bicam) composed of 18 members from the House of Representatives and 10 from the Senate...
Senate Bill 1717. Basic Law for the Autonomous Region of the Bangsamoro
Source: senate.gov.ph
Approved on 30 May 2018: 21 yes
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Text of approved bill:
Legislative History
Entitled:
AN ACT PROVIDING...
House Bill 6475. Basic Law for the Autonomous Region in the Bangsamoro
Source: congress.gov.ph
Approved on 30 May 2018: 227 voted yes, 11 no, 2 abstained.
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Text of approved...
Bangsamoro Basic Law ( BTC-drafted)
Source: Bangsamoro Transition Commission
Text of the Bangsamoro Basic Law drafted by the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC) and submitted to President Rodrigo Duterte on 17...
Maj. Carlos Sol: soldier of peace passes away
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 01 July 2018) -- Major Carlos Sol, Director of the combined secretariat of the government panel's ceasefire mechanisms in the...
Less-than-ARMM Bangsamoro is bad for business, “leads to very uncertain future”
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 29 June) -- Uncertainty is bad for business and the business sector in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM),...
Duterte to MILF: what cannot be included in the BBL, add them via federalism
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 17 June) -- Reiterating his camapign for federalism, President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday night urged leaders of the Moro Islamic...
BBL’s post-ratification scenario: BTC to serve as caretaker of Bangsamoro region
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 11 June) -- While the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) versions of the Senate and House of Representatives have been described...
Q&A with MILF chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim: “Our people will also judge us”
Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) recalls having been surprised to see leaders of the Senate and the...
Murad: MILF asked former MILF members in Maute Group to leave Marawi
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 11 June) -- In the early days of the Marawi Siege in May last year, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front...
Cardinal Quevedo optimistic Duterte won’t renege on vow to Bangsamoro and Congress’ final BBL...
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 10 June) -- Mindanao's lone Cardinal is optimistic that President Rodrigo Duterte wont' renege on his commitment to the Bangsamoro...
Murad says BBL versions passed are “very diluted” but hopes to regain what they...
CAMP DARAPANAN, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao (08 June) -- The chair of the Moro Islamic LIberation Front (MILF) has acknowledged that the versions of the...
28 legislators to craft final Bangsamoro law: 14 from Mindanao, 7 of them Moro
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 02 June) -- Twenty-eight legislators will form the Bicameral Conference Committee that will craft the final version of the Bangsamoro...
On passage of BBL: no celebration but caution as MILF’s Murad says “struggle is...
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 31 May) -- The two houses of Congress passed on Wednesday afternoon and in the early hours of Thursday their...
BBL passed by May 30, Duterte to sign it into law July 23, but...
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 29 May) -- The two houses of Congress will pass their respective versions of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) before...
Bangsamoro Basic Law update: It’s back to BTC version
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 April) -- The three committees handling the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law in the House of Representatives on Monday approved...
House Committees vote on BBL amendments but can plenary pass law before June 1?
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 April) -- The House Committees on Local Government, Muslim Affairs, and Peace, Reconciliation and Unity, are meeting this week...
Bangsamoro law passed by May 2018, Congress leaders assure Duterte, MILF
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 05 April) -- Leaders of the two houses of Congress on Wednesday afternoon assured President Rodrigo Duterte and the Moro...
Nur Misuari to rest after 50 years of leading MNLF if…
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 18 March) -- Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) founding chair Nur Misuari wants to relinquish his post to the second...
Ateneo Presidents push for immediate passage of BTC-drafted Bangsamoro law
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 17 March) -- The Presidents of the five Jesuit-run Ateneo universities in Mindanao, Manila and Naga are calling for the...
MILF chair Murad: Senate’s proposed Bangsamoro is “generally acceptable”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 06 March) -- The chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on Monday said Senate Bill 1717, the substitute...
Moro CSO leaders acknowledge possibility of ‘watered down’ BBL but…
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews / 22 Feb) -- Leaders of Bangsamoro civil society organizations acknowledge the possibility of a "watered down" version of the Bangsamoro...
Failed BBL, failed Marawi rehab will push more people into violent extremism — Moro...
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews / 22 February) -- Leaders of Bangsamoro civil society organizations in Mindanao called on Congress to pass the Bangsamoro Basic Law...
House sets BBL public hearings on Feb. 8 to March 9 in 11 Mindanao...
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 01 February) -- The House Committees on Local Government, Muslim Affairs and Peace, Reconciliation and Unity will be conducting public...
Senators push for Bangsamoro law to “prevent another Marawi from happening”
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews / 27 January) -- After seeing the destruction of this city, talking to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) leadership and...
Cardinal Quevedo warns of red herrings in passage of BBL
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 19 January) -- Mindanao's lone Cardinal on Friday warned of red herrings as Congress deliberates on passing the Bangsamoro Basic...
Bangsamoro in federal system: not template but more of exception
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 17 January) -- The future Bangsamoro state cannot be the template when the country shifts to a federal system of...
Dureza says Duterte “ready to carve out area for Bangsamoro self rule” via EO
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 17 January) -- President Rodrigo Duterte has reiterated he would push for the passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL)...
BBL versions: House and Senate
HB 092. Filed on 30 June 2016 by Rep. Bai Sandra Sema of Maguindanao, Deputy Speaker for Mindanao
HB 6121. Filed on 03 August 2017...
Duterte at Bangsamoro Assembly: what’s the special session of Congress for?
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 28 November) -- At the 1st Bangsamoro Assembly in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao last Monday, President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated his campaign...
New target for passing Bangsamoro law: March 2018
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 November) -- With only nine session days left from November 27 until the two houses of Congress go on...
Bangsamoro Asssembly postponed to “third week of November”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 29 Oct) -- The Bangsamoro Assembly scheduled November 3 and 4 in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao has been reset to "third...
Duterte “resurrects” Salamat Hashim; warns “fighting everywhere in Mindanao” if…
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 13 October) -- President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday erroneously "resurrected" Salamat Hashim, founding chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front...
Draft Bangsamoro Basic Law still in limbo
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 Sept) -- President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday met with Congress leaders and the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC), the joint...
Duterte to biz sector: “There will be no peace in Mindanao for the longest...
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 09 Sept) -- As the Marawi Crisis and martial law-in-Mindanao entered Day 110 on Saturday, the country's first Mindanawon President...