Philippine tribe in limbo over US-led tech hub
The project could draw up to $70 billion in investment and create about 190,000 jobs, officials said, as Aeta residents face possible relocation.
- In April, the Philippines joined the US-led Pax Silica initiative, designating a 1,620-hectare site in New Clark City, Tarlac, for an artificial intelligence manufacturing hub projected to attract $70 billion in investment and create about 190,000 jobs.
- For about 1,000 Aetas, the project threatens displacement from ancestral lands. Indigenous chieftain Munoz stated, "Our lives, our livelihood and our culture are tied to this ancestral land."
- In July, the Bases Conversion and Development Authority warned that the project "could affect your occupied lands," offering just 30 pesos per square meter for relocation 16 kilometers away.
- Munoz reported the BCDA provided no master plan showing which lands would be affected. The agency also rejected freedom of information requests, stating data is "withheld temporarily until the official action is finalized or published."
- Research director Alvin Camba urged transparency, saying "I would actually advise the Philippine government to be very transparent about what's happening." The U.S. State Department expects "rigorous stakeholder impact assessments" before development begins.
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The Philippines allocated 1,620 hectares of land for a manufacturing centre to produce advanced components for artificial intelligence data centres.
Philippine indigenous group in limbo over tech hub
Indigenous leader Petronila Munoz walked across the sweeping Philippine grasslands her people called home for generations, uncertain about its future, as a sprawling tech hub for a US-led initiative takes shape.With little information and no prior consultation, the indigenous chieftain said the Aeta
For generations, the Aeta Hungey tribe lives in the middle of the Tarlac prairies, about a hundred kilometers from Manila, Philippines. Now, about a thousand of its members face the possibility of being displaced by a technology pole project driven by the United States. The community says it has not yet received clear information about which lands will be affected or how its livelihood will be if the resettlement is carried out. Want to read mor…
The Aeta community faces eviction because of a technology project in the Philippines, driven by the U.S., that seeks to reduce dependence on China.The tribe, without title, rejects the compensation offered and fears losing its ancestral land, vital to its culture and subsistence.
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