Reporting BIMP EAGA from Communities

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This initial interview used only three out of the 19 themes generate through the Aspirations for Good Governance: FGDs and Key Information Interviews. Gov. R...

26/08/2020

Take away from Reporting ASEAN engagement: There are more untold ASEAN stories beyond the summits and meetings.

My pick up: Stories about people in communities at the receiving end of the policies discussed in ASEAN are examples of these stories.

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There goes this kind of headline writing. Sad.

Soldiers and civilians were among the dead. The explosions occurred in a town plaza and near a cathedral targeted in a su***de bombing last year.

24/08/2020

Connectivity and Engagement of Local Governments in BIMP-EAGA

As a spin-off of my engagement with ASEAN in 2017, I have created this page to build on the knowledge and lessons I gained on two ASEAN topics: Ground check on Connectivity in the BIMP EAGA Vision 2025 and Engagement of Local Governent in BIMP-EAGA (Brunei Indonesia Malaysia Philippines - East ASEAN Growth Area).

The Reporting ASEAN fellowship program and media series was implemented by Probe Media Foundation, supported by an ASEAN-Canada project in partnership with AirAsia and in collaboration with the ASEAN Foundation. My participation was approved and supported by Bukidnon State University as part of faculty mobility in the region. Special thanks also to my home news agency, MindaNews.

It caused me to travel and learn around Mindanao cities, established connections on Indonesia, and traveled to Manila for interviews and Bangkok, Thailand and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for the media forum.

It allowed me to pursue an ASEAN journalism project covering an economic phenomenon involving Mindanao. It allowed me to learn on two specialization areas I am most engaged - journalism and economics education, in an Asian setting.

For the connectivity strand, I traveled to Davao and General Santos cities to check preparations on the then proposed Davao-Gensan-Bitung (Indonesia) roll on roll off (RoRo) shipping service. I covered the launching of the service by Presidents Duterte and Widodo in April 2017.

For the local government engagement and institutional strand, I met a former Asian Development Bank top honcho who played a crucial role in the formation of the growth triangle. I also met and learned about an economics research group based in Singapore.

Once remote and isolated, the BIMP-EAGA now has a gross domestic product of $287 million in 2019.

I am curious how has COVID-19 changed this development. How has it affected connectivity and local government engagement in the area, too?

At the gist of this, is how did the policy of free trade and regional consolidation impact the people on the ground, like the abaca weavers of Manalog, Malaybalay City?

I hope to find answers for these questions in creating this page.

-East ASEAN Growth Area
and Issues in Philippine Economic Development

Month Celebration

24/08/2020

https://www.bimp-eaga.asia/article/bimp-eaga-urged-shore-connectivity-gains-wake-covid-19

BIMP-EAGA business leaders call for better connectivity in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

24/08/2020

https://bimp-eaga.asia/

Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines created the East ASEAN Growth Area to shift economic activities from resource extraction to higher levels of processing and value-added production, focusing on industries that adopt clean and green technologies.

24/08/2020

Advertisement Editors' PicksTop Stories SE Asia sub-regional group pushes for bigger local gov’t role in dev’t June 25, 2019 | 12:31 am Font Size A A A DAVAO CITY — Leaders of the Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) want more active local government partici...

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Mindanao Development Authority

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Once isolated, impoverished and torn by conflict, the Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area is developing into a center of peace and prosperity in the region.

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BIMP EAGA Vision 2025

24/08/2020

Vera Files uses my story on Increasing Local Government Engagement in BIMP-EAGA

Increasing local government engagement is one of the goals of the ASEAN integration, specifically in the BIMP-EAGA. But local governments outside of the key areas are not directly engaged.

24/08/2020

Increasing Local Government Engagement in BIMP-EAGA

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 29 October) — In a corner at the local crafts store, 38-year old Marj Libanda, father of two, strings beads into a headdress to meet a local order. He has been a…

24/08/2020

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 April) — Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade cited three ingredients to ensure the sustainability of the Davao-General Santos-Bitung roll on roll off (RoRo) rou…

24/08/2020

Connectivity in BIMP-EAGA: RoRo service between Philippines and Indonesia

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/17 March) – The Philippine and Indonesian governments will launch next month a roll-on, roll-off shipping service that will link Davao and General Santos cities to Bitung City…