Indigenous peoples in the Philippines are at the forefront of the movement for recognition of indigenous rights in the Asia-Pacific region because they have understood the power of organising across borders (Gray 1995, 44). Thus far, the identity demands of indigenous peoples would not fit neatly into either of Castells’ identity categories since they are generally directed through institutions of civil society. But the Mindanao Muslim people’s long-running political struggle against the Christian central government may be described as a “project identity”. Since the peace accord was established in 1996 between the Ramos government and the Moro National Liberation Front, other organisations, including the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, have transformed the struggle into a battle for a more specifically Muslim identity; the militant Abu Sayyaf group wants an Islamic republic established in Mindanao (Gaudard 1997). Such a goal challenges “the entire structure” of cultural, legal and political reproduction of Filipino society.please explain the sentences...

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Indigenous peoples in the Philippines are at the forefront of the movement for recognition of indigenous rights in the Asia-Pacific region because they have understood the power of organising across borders (Gray 1995, 44). Thus far, the identity demands of indigenous peoples would not fit neatly into either of Castells’ identity categories since they are generally directed through institutions of civil society. But the Mindanao Muslim people’s long-running political struggle against the Christian central government may be described as a “project identity”.

Since the peace accord was established in 1996 between the Ramos government and the Moro National Liberation Front, other organisations, including the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, have transformed the struggle into a battle for a more specifically Muslim identity; the militant Abu Sayyaf group wants an Islamic republic established in Mindanao (Gaudard 1997). Such a goal challenges “the entire structure” of cultural, legal and political reproduction of Filipino society.

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