Butig, Lanao del Sur

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Butig
Municipality

Map of Lanao del Sur with Butig highlighted

Butig
Location within the Philippines

Coordinates:
Country

0743N 12418ECoordinates:
Philippines

0743N 12418E

Region

Autonomous Region in Muslim

Mindanao (ARMM)

Province

Lanao del Sur

District

2nd District of Lanao del Sur

Founded

June 25, 1963

Barangays

16

Government[1]
Mayor

Atty. Dimnatang Labay Pansar

Area
Total

331.49 km2 (127.99 sq mi)

Population (2010)[2]
Total

16,642

Density

50/km2 (130/sq mi)

Time zone

PST (UTC+8)

ZIP code

9305

Dialing code

+63(0)63

Income

6th

class

Butig is a sixth class municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, Philippines. According to the
2010 census, it has a population of 16,642 people. [2]
It became a municipality under Executive Order No. 21 issued on June 25, 1963 during the term of
President Diosdado Macapagal.
Contents
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1Barangays

2History
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2.1Role in Islamization of Mindanao

2.2Resistance to European Colonialism

2.3American Rule in Mindanao

2.4World War II and the Japanese Occupation

2.5Political history

2.6Military conflict

3Demographics

4See also

5References

6External links

Barangays[edit]
Butig is politically subdivided into 16 barangays.

Butig Proper

Cabasaran

Coloyan Tambo

Dilabayan

Dolangan

Pindolonan

Bayabao Poblacion

Poktan

Ragayan

Raya

Samer (Dama)

Sandab Madaya

Sundig

Tiowi

Timbab

Malungun

Butig had forty four (44) barangays during the time of Mayor Sultan Macabayao M. Macadato until
1979, but reduced to only sixteen (16) barangays when Sangcad S. Bao took over as OIC-Mayor
during the time of President Corazon C. Aquino.

History[edit]
Dama is one of the old towns of Butig. It is considered as the oldest settlement in the center of
Mindanao. A sultanate located in the Pangampong (Principality) of Unayan, Lanao, Mindanao, Butig
belongs to the confederation of the Sultans of Lanao (Ranao in Maranao language). This historic
town is the "cradle" of Maranao civilization.

Role in Islamization of Mindanao[edit]

While Islamic political institutions were being implemented in Sulu, Muslim traders and possibly
itinerant teachers visited the eastern and northern parts of Mindanao Island. The advent of
Muhammad Kabungsuwan and his lieutenants developed a system of multiple marriage alliances
with various ruling families which served as a means of extending both political control and
Islamization. The coming of this intrepid Arab-Malay, to whom the pervasive spread of Islam in
Mindanao is attributed, and from whom all the leading sultans of that island have claimed descent,
can be calculated to have taken place around the second decade of the sixteenth century. (Majul,
1973)
From the above-mentioned marriage alliances came the Moro dynasties of Maguindanao, Buayan,
and Butig. From the Maranaos of Butig, Islam was then introduced to the Maranaos of Lake Lanao.
Whereas the base and strength of the Buayan sultanate was in the upper valley of the Pulangi in the
interior of eastern Mindanao, that of the sultanate of Maguindanao was at the lower valley and the
nearby coastal areas. Actually, for many years it was Iranun support that strengthened the
Maguindanaon rulers against their antagonists. (Majul, 1973)
In the time, the continued existence of Islam in Sulu and Mindanao was guaranteed by a more
intensive Islamization of their neighbors such as Brunei and Ternate. The royal families of Brunei and
Sulu became intimately related, as did those of Maguindanao and Ternate. Commercial relations and
religious dialogue expanded among the peoples of these regions ... thus generating a sense of
community transcending regional frontiers or dynastic loyalties. (Majul, 1973)

Resistance to European Colonialism[edit]

In 1658, a strong force took the field against the Moros of Mindanao under the command of Don
Francisco Estovar, Governor of Zamboanga. The expedition disembarked before the Moro town of
Mamucan in the Cotabato Valley. Here an action conducted by Don Pedro de Biruga, who, with a
force of 180 Spaniards, destroyed the town of Butig, with many vessels and a quantity of rice.
(Hurley, 1936)
Between 1663, when Zamboanga was abandoned, and 1718 when it was refortified, there was an
interlude in the Moro Wars, which allowed the sultanates to become better organized and their
Islamic institutions to be reinforced. Vigorous commercial relations with other principalities were
initiated. It was around this time, too that the Sulu Sultanate acquired the North Borneo territory from
the Sultan of Brunei as a grateful recompense for armed intervention in a dynastic quarrel. Sulu had
reached the highest level of its territorial expansion. Actually, Sulu was simply filling up the power
vacuum left in the island of Borneo as a result of Brunei's gradual political and commercial decline.
The Spanish government, principally on account of Jesuit agitation, decided to refortify Zamboanga.
The Jesuits, more than any religious order in the Philippines, were the most insistent on the
evangelization of Muslims. This attitude cost them (the Jesuits) a few casualties on account of
extreme zeal.

It is proposed that the fifth stage in the history of the Moro Wars began with the refortification of
Zamboanga in 1718 and ended in the Spanish failure in the eighteenth century to reduce the Muslim
states to vassalage. To achieve this political end, and Spanish plan was devised to convert the
sultans of Sulu and Maguindanao preparatory to the eventual conversion of the datus and other
subjects. In this stage, the combined Sulu-Maranao attack to capture Zamboanga in 1719 failed.
Again, a desultory war followed. The plan to convert the sultans failed in the case of Maguindanao.
Although 'Azim-ud-Din, the sultan deposed by his brother, was baptized in Manila in 1751, that
action did not have the desired political results in Sulu since the sultanate was in the hands of a
usurper. Also, the question of the sincerity of the conversion still remains an open one.
In this fifth stage, the men of Sultan Mardan and the Maranaos of Butig began their devastating
attacks on other parts of the Philippines, reducing the number of tributes for Spain coming from the
Visayas and causing a virtual disruption in the economic life of many islands under the Spanish
colonial regime. On account of thousands of captives taken by the Muslims, some depopulation
started to take place in the Visayas. But all this was in response to the Spanish order in 1751 to
enslave captured Muslims and destroy their settlements, boats, plantations, and fields. Yet, as the
facts demonstrate, it was the Sulu Sultan who was always the first to initiate moves for a peaceful
settlement. The lessening of Spanish power as a direct result of the British invasion of the
Philippines and capture of Manila in 1762 once again brought about a decline of hostilities between
Spaniards and Sulu and Maguindanao. The Muslim principalities again tried to recapture their days
of commercial prosperity, but they were not to be left in peace. (Majul, 1973)
On December 8, 1720, Dalasi, the Datu of Butig (also known as Rajah Janatun of Butig), with an
armada of one hundred vessels or paraws manned by Sultan sa Kanluran, Miyangaludan and
several thousand Moros, attacked Fort Pilar in Zamboanga. He captured a local Jesuit priest and
forced the Spanish government in Manila to give ransom payment in exchange for his freedom.
(Hurley, 1936) But the accuracy of this report by Hurley is in doubt considering the distance of Butig
(Lanao del Sur) to the shores of Zamboanga. Furthermore, the Jesuits in Zamboanga were more
engaged with the Tausugs of Sulu; and for Datu Dalasi, a Maranao of Lanao, to get involved in the
affairs of the Sulu Sultanate is highly unusual.

American Rule in Mindanao[edit]

In July, 1908, Lieutenant Burr of the American colonial forces was leading forty men through the
Agus River in Mindanao. Near Nyaan the party came to a cotta, well fortified and surrounded with a
moat filled with brush. Resistance being encountered, the soldiers cut through the brush with their
bayonets and assaulted the fort.
The first soldier to reach the cotta walls was attacked from the rear by a Moro with a kris. Hearing
the cry of the soldier, Lieutenant Burr hurried to his assistance, killing the Moro with a pistol. Another
Moro sprang from the shelter of the bush and struck Burr before he could turn to defend himself,
dealing the American officer a terrible blow on the head with a campilane.
Burr died a few days later in the hospital at Camp Kiethley.
During the years 1908 and 1909, and for a number of years afterwards, the Butig Mountain range
and the Lake Lanao and Buldun sections of Mindanao were infested with outlaw bands ranging in
size from a few men to several hundred.
Early in the year 1906, Moro outlaws in the inaccessible mountains of Butig fortified themselves in
hill-top strongholds under the leadership of Sultan Mangatung and his brother inlaw, Amai Maricor of
Maciu. Under Mangatung, a great force of outlaws became established at rancherias and were
responsible for terrible depredations throughout the district.
Government launches operating at the mouth of the Malaig river were frequently fired upon, with the
result that a camp of men from the 15th Infantry was established at the river.

The Moros were invited in for parleys and many of them came in and abandoned the outlaw life to
return peacefully to their homes.
A number of the Moros, however, chose to ignore the American request for conciliation, and after a
perty commanded by Lieutenant Furlong was fired upon, an American offensive was undertaken.
Sultan Mangatung was killed.
Colonel J. F. Hutton took the field at the head of three columns of troops in the Butig Mountains. The
soldiers were fired upon from the cottas but after eight serious engagements all of the outlaws in the
district were annihilated.
Upon completion of these operations in Mindanao, a short period of peace ensued, to be broken by
rumblings in Jolo.

World War II and the Japanese Occupation[edit]

Began the Second World War, The Japanese fighter and bomber planes invaded and
surprising attack in the town municipality of Butig on December 1941 and entered by the
Japanese Imperial forces were occupied in 1942. The built of the military garrison and bases of
the Imperial Japanese Army were stationed in the town.

Followed by the Japanese Occupation, the local recognized guerrillas and Muslim swordman
were aided by the regular troops and officers of the Philippine Commonwealth Army was began
the conflicts and siege of battles around the town municipalities against the Japanese from 1942
to 1945 until almost four years later were retreat by the recognized guerrillas and Muslim
swordmen by the Japanese hands before the Allied liberation.

When Filipino troops and officers under the Philippine Commonwealth Army and Philippine
Constabulary military units are liberated the municipal town and helped by the recognized
guerrillas and Muslim swordmen and they defeated and attack by the Japanese troops and
aftermath in the Second World War. The general headquarters of the Philippine Commonwealth
Army and Philippine Constabulary was stationed the town and active from 1945 to 1946 during
and aftermath in World War II.

Political history[edit]
Atty. Dimnatang Labay Pansar is the incumbent mayor of Butig. His predecessors were mayors
Ibrahim M. Macadato, Dimnatang Pansar, Pauli Bao-Macabuntal Ditual, Sunnyboy Mona,
Monabantog Kiram, Arapa Datukanug, Palawan Amatonding, Abdulrahman Romato, Datu Mombao
Romato, Sangcad Bao,Sultan Macalinog Bao and Sultan Macabayao Macadato, (first elected mayor
of Butig). Mayor Macabayao M. Macadato has been elected four (4) times ( four (4) year term ) as
Mayor and was only deposed when the late dictator President Ferdinand E. Marcos replaced him
with OIC in 1979 due to his being in opposition to the ruling KBL Party at that time. The late
Macabayao Macadato, former Sultan of the Royale House of Butig is considered as the father of
democracy in Butig as many people thereat love him so much due to his being approachable and a
hardworking public servant. Butig is one of the oldest town in the province and the inhabitants
thereat are connected to all the Seventeen Royal Houses of Lanao. By tradition, any individual who
has no blood line in Butig cannot hold any recognized Royal Title in the Sultanate of Lanao.

Military conflict[edit]
Main article: 2016 Butig Clash
Clashes between the Philippine military and a local terrorist organization known as the Maute
group which is believed to have ties with Jemaah Islamiyahstarted on February 20, 2016, after the
Maute Group raided the detachment of the 51st Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army in the town.
[3]
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria paraphernalia were discovered at the group's lair after government

forces overran the group's camp on February 26, 2016.[4][5] The firefight displaced 2,000 residents of
Butig, and killed 42 members of the group and three government troops.

Demographics[edit]
Population census of Butig

Source: National Statistics Office[2]