CHED commissioner requests ABS-CBN over misuse of the term “Bagani”.
BAGANI – Commissioner Ronald Adamat of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) requests for a meeting with ABS-CBN for “immediate clarification and explanation” in using the term “Bagani” for their new teleserye.
Dr. Adamat is a former representative of the Indigenous People Sector during the 10th Congress who sent a formal letter to the president of ABS-CBN Carlo Katigbak.
“The undersigned… would like to seek immediate clarification and explanation from ABS-CBN as to how and why the term ‘Bagani’, which is an Indigenous Peoples terminology and endemic only to IPs [Indigenous Peoples], ended up used in a teleserye that I suspect is devoid of real meaning and substance.”
As an IP himself and as a CHED commissioner speaks regarding the issue for he cited that he was deeply bothered about the portrayal of ‘Bagani’ in a teleserye as being a ‘bayani with magical powers.’”
“It is not enough for writers and producers of movies and teleseryes to come up with concepts, titles, and characters that would sell and create blockbusters yet carry with them half-truths and lies that destroy and negate the real essence of an IP terminology, as in the case of Bagani, and instead bring injustice to the 14 million Filipino IPs.”
Furthermore, he reiterated that he cannot tolerate “public showing of the said teleserye as long as ABS-CBN would not revise the format and concept in order to render ‘Bagani’ to become as educational as it can be, and make the same as historically-accurate and culturally-correct presentation of what the real ‘Bagani’ is from an IP perspective.”
See the full content of the letter below:
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