EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 879
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 879 - DIRECTING
THE PROPAGATION OF THE FILIPINO IDEOLOGY AND CREATING A COMMITTEE TO
EVOLVE, SUPERVISE AND MONITOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAM FOR ITS
DISSEMINATION
WHEREAS, both the New Society established
in 1972 and the New Republic inaugurated in 1981 were dedicated to the
release of the majority of our people from poverty and the promotion of
their economic and social welfare;
WHEREAS, the means we chose to bring forth this fundamental change in
Filipino society, was a revolution founded on democratic precepts, a
constitutional process of radical reform that rejected violence, chaos
and destruction;
WHEREAS, the barangay, the ancient social and political unit of the
Filipino, was restored by the national leadership to serve as the
medium through which to carry out this essential program of
transformation;
WHEREAS, the mass of the citizenry whose dignity was the objective of
such radical but democratic reform was summoned by the national
leadership to participate in various nationwide programs of
development, such as, among others, the —
1.
Kilusang Kabuhayan at Kaunlaran (KKK) — The new revolution for
livelihood and progress, which places funds at the disposal of the
community’s poorest, not as a handout but as an incentive to effort.
2. Barangay
Brigades Development Program — Designed as an instrument of developing
good works in the community and in the nation. Its one great objective
is to make the barangay utterly absorbed in the affairs of the world
under a distinctive mood of self-reliance and volunteerism.
3. Land Reform
Movement — Movement strives to emancipate the rice and corn tenants
from feudal bondage. The law (PD 27) transfers to them ownership of
rice and corn lands, bringing to an end the exploitive agricultural
share tenancy system.
4. Masagana 99
— Launched in 1973, the movement aspires to have the farmers increase
their production to 99 sacks of 4.4 tons of unmilled rice (palay) per
hectare. It sets its sights on self- sufficiency in food, using modern
methods of irrigation, infrastructure buildup, and input increases.
5. Masagana
Program — Movement designed to accelerate production of yellow hybrid
corn; uses similar methods employed under Masagana 99.
6. Blue
Revolution Program — Movement aimed at accelerating sea-farming
projects.
7. Samahang
Nayon Movement — Biggest farmer institution involving the development
of farmer cooperatives; inculcating self-reliance in production,
procurement and marketing of farm products. A component of the land
reform program. PD 27 requires farmer beneficiaries to become bona fide
members of a cooperative organization called Samahang Nayon.
8. Small
Farmer Development Program — Established to assist the small farmer,
small fishermen and landless agricultural workers to obtain higher
productivity and increase farm family incomes through group action.
Also implemented as a component of land reform.
9. Home
Development Mutual Fund or PAG-IBIG Fund — Created through PD No. 1530,
the HDMF institutionalized a system of voluntary contribution for
housing purposes.
10. Medical
Care — Medicare insurance coverage for public and private workers,
later expanded to include self-employed dependents, retirees and other
groups (PDs 1013 and 1519). This program enabled the reduction of the
financial burden of hospitalization.
11. Enercon
Movement — A continuing program which encourages the people to take
energy conservation measures.
12. Integrated
Municipal Food & Nutrition Program — Movement aimed at educating
the people combat food deficiency and malnutrition.
13.
Self-Employment Assistance Program — A productivity-oriented program
where non-interest and non-collateral capital assistance is granted to
individuals and groups who then engage in incoming-producing ventures.
14. Kabataang
Barangay — A nationwide movement designed to organize the youth into a
unified whole and to have them involve themselves in
socio-economic-political activities.
15. Balikatan
Program — Carried out under the National Commission on the Role of
Filipino Women, the program aims at ensuring the full integration of
women for economic, social and cultural development at the national
level.
16.
Cooperative Program — An essential supplement to land reform, this
program is a means by which small farmers, can act collectively so that
they will have economic strength. Within the cooperative system, small
and fragmented land- holdings are consolidated into operational units,
farm technology is transferred more systematically to the rural sector,
credit is better administered, and government and civic programs more
effectively implemented.
WHEREAS, through these mass-based programs citizens were given the
opportunity for self-improvement through the acquisition and
application of skills, the exercise of initiative, and the productive
use of resources;
WHEREAS, this revolutionary effort undertaken together by the
government and the people, embodied the essence of the Filipino
ideology, a national creed that honors the cooperative spirit, promotes
peaceable change, and safeguards the right of the poor to dignity and
advancement;
WHEREAS, the masses themselves have yet to see this ideology fully
developed and articulated, or to find its relationship to national
destiny, and for this purpose it is necessary that they are drawn into
the task of understanding the elements of the country’s moral and
intellectual legacy and the new salutary values which are the source of
the Filipino ideology.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby
order:
Section 1. All agencies and instrumentalities of
government shall undertake a program of orientation and dissemination
of the Filipino ideology among their personnel and the general public
they serve. For this purpose, the inclusion in the annual program and
budget of government agencies and instrumentalities of a specific
amount to fund the propagation of the Filipino ideology is hereby
authorized.
Sec. 2. The Ministry of Education, Culture and
Sports shall include the study and understanding of the Filipino
ideology in the curricula if all levels of education and training in
all schools in the country.
Sec. 3. The Civil Service Commission shall include
in its qualifying examinations for government service basic knowledge
on the Filipino ideology.
Sec. 4. There is hereby created a Committee on the
Propagation of the Filipino Ideology which shall have the following
functions:
a.
Cull from the existing body of writings on Filipino ideology and from
other works of Philippine literature the fundamentals of that ideology
and organize the same for dissemination to our people.
b. Provide
guidance on the formulation of a program of orientation and
dissemination of the Filipino ideology in both government and private
sectors.
c. Approve the
above program and supervise its implementation.
d. Initiate
regular programs and special projects to provide a venue for the
discussion, synthesis and refinement of the Filipino ideology.
e. Report to
the President on the progress of the program.
Sec. 5. The Committee shall be composed of the
following:
Minister
of Human Settlements — Chairman
Minister of Education, Culture
and Sports — Vice-Chairman
Minister of Local
Government — Member
Minister of National
Defense
—Member
Minister of Labor and Employment
— Member
Minister of Media Affairs — Member
Executive Director, President’s
Center
for Special Studies — Member
Upon the recommendation of the Committee, the President shall designate
as members of the Committee representatives from the various Church
denominations, Labor Group and other sectors.
The Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Members may have their respective
alternates who shall be designated by them and whose acts shall be
considered the acts of their principals with the right to receive
benefits.
Sec. 6. The Committee shall have an Executive
Working Group which shall be headed by the Executive Director,
President’s Center for Special Studies with the following as members:
Representatives
of the members of the above Committee
General, Manager, National
Housing Authority
Representatives of such Church
groups he may call upon
Representative of the Labor
Groups
Representative from Other
Sectors as necessary.
Sec. 7. The Executive Working Group shall have the
following functions:
a.
Under the guidance of the Committee, evolve and submit for its
approval, action plans and programs of implementation for the
propagation of the Filipino ideology.
b. Serve as
action group in the implementation of specific programs and projects
approved by the Committee.
c. Provide
secretarial and other administrative support services to the Committee.
d. Monitor the
implementation of programs on the propagation of the Filipino ideology
and submit periodic reports to the Committee on the status of such
program.
e. Establish
and administer an operations center or appropriate offices of the
Committee.
f. Undertake
such other tasks as the Committee may direct with respect to the
propagation of the Filipino ideology.
Sec. 8. The Executive Working Group shall organize
a Secretariat which shall provide administrative and monitoring
services for the Committee. For this purpose and subject to the
approval of the Committee through its Chairman, the Executive Working
Group may hire qualified individuals to constitute its technical and
administrative staff and employ the services of consultants to assist
such staff.
Sec. 9. The Minister of the Budget shall release
to the President’s Center for Special Studies the amount of One Million
Pesos (P1 Million) from the Special Activities Fund of the President,
which amount shall be used to fund the initial administrative and
operating activities of the Committee. The Minister of the Budget
shall, upon the recommendation of the Committee on the Propagation of
the Filipino ideology, release funds as grants to any government agency
or instrumentality undertaking approved programs or projects on the
Filipino ideology.
Sec. 10. This Executive Order shall take effect
immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 1st day of March in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
eighty-three.