2. Agricultural Land Reform Code
• One of Diosdado Macapagal’s greatest achievements.
• He instituted a public land clearance program to make new
farmlands available for immediate use.
• Goal: To establish owner – cultivator ship and the economic
family – size farm as the basis of Philippine agriculture, and as
a consequence, divert landlord capital in agriculture to
industrial development;
• To create a truly viable social and economic structure in
agriculture conducive to greater productivity and higher farm
incomes;
• To provide a more vigorous and systematic land resettlement
program and public land distribution;
• Change the traditional share tenancy to lease hold system
• The tenant would give 25% of their harvest as payment
3. Emergency Employment Administration
• It was patterned after a similar employment program of
United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt during
America’s great depression in the 1930’s.
• Purpose: stated on Section 2 which says “It is hereby
declared to be the continuing policy and responsibility of
the State to utilize every possible means to create
maximum employment opportunities for all who are
able, willing and seeking to work but cannot find
employment, thus increasing mass purchasing power,
developing income in rural areas, and stimulating
economic activity in general.”
• What this law basically does is to create and offer job
opportunities to Filipinos who are seeking or in need of
employment.
4. Philippine Industry
• The law abolished share tenancy
on rice and corn farmlands, and
established a leasehold system in
which farmers paid fixed rentals
to landlords, rather than a
percentage of the harvest.
5. SABAH
• Bordered by Sarawak on its southwestern side, and Kalimantan
(Indonesian Borneo) to the south.
• It was said the Sabah was a gift to the Sultanate of Sulu from the
Sultan of Brueni.
• A gift for helping the Sultan of Brunei fight against his enemies.
• During President Diosdado Macapagal’s administration, the
Philippines formally claimed Sabah based on the Sultanate of Sulu
heirs’ claim on the territory.
• The Philippines broke diplomatic relations with Malaysia after the
federation have included “Sabah”.
• The Sultan’s heirs have given the Philippine government the
authority to pursue the claim legally in international courts.
• The succeeding administrations have either have ignored or set
aside the claim for peaceful co-existent and trade relation with the
Malaysians.
6. MAPHILINDO
• And organization composed of Southeast
Asian countries particularly the Malaysia,
Philippines, and Indonesia.
• Purpose: to boost our country’s trade with our
neighbors.
• The organization also have way to the making
of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
or better known as ASEAN.
7. Independence Day
• Through an executive order, he changed the date of indep.
From the july 4, chosen date of the Americans, to june 12, the
day when Aguinaldo proclaimed the country’s independence
in Kawit, Cavite.
• July 4 is now the Philippine-American Friendship day.
Filipino Language
• He declared the Filipino Language as our
National language.
