Renz Paolo B.

Ramos, MPA

RAIDERS OF THE SULU SEA Social Sciences

Department – Adamson
University
LECTURE OUTLINE

BACKGROUND OF THE KEY INFORMANTS

CONTENT
GEOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT
CONTEXT
SIGNIFICANCE
THE KEY INFORMANTS
BACKGROUND AND CREDENTIALS
Icelle Gloria Borja-Estrada

 Zamboanga native Filipina

Artist, Historian and Museum
Curator
 She worked as Zamboanga
City Museum Curator
 Local promoter of
Zamboanga’s culture and
arts
 She is an Art History expert
Dr. Samuel K. Tan
 Born in Siasi, Sulu of
Chinese-Tausug-Sama
parentage
 Ph.D. in Social Science at
the Maxwell School of
Citizenship and Public
Affairs, Syracuse University,
New York
 A retired professor at UP
Mindanao
 Chairman of the National
Historical Institute in 1998
Prof. Dr. Barbara Watson Andaya

 A professor at University of Hawaii

– Manoa who specializes at South
East Asian History
 She earned her Ph.D. in South East
Asian History at Cornell University
 Christianity and religious change
in Southeast Asia, ca. 1500-
present, Women and gender in
early modern Southeast Asia,
Social issues in contemporary
Southeast Asia.
Prof. Dr. Julius Bautista

 An associate professor at Kyoto

University, Center for South East
Asian Studies
 Former Senior Lecture at National
University of Singapore
 Expert in areas such as
Anthropology, Southeast Asian
Studies, Religious Studies
 Ph.D. in South East Asian Studies
at Australian National University
Dr. Margarita Cojuanco

 Filipino Politician, academic, and

writer
 Former President of Philippine
Public Safety College and DILG
Undersecretary
 She holds doctorate degrees in
Criminology and Philippine History
 Former Governor of Tarlac
 A Colonel of the Reserve Forces
of the Philippine Army
THE CONTENT
A documentary of the Southern Philippines
Raiders of the Sulu Sea

Produced by Oak3 Films

Co-production with Media Authority of
Singapore and Korean Broadcasting
Commission in 2007
Showed in 2008 through Discovery Channel and
History Channel and was directed by Idzwan
Othman.
Raiders of the Sulu Sea

It depicts the salve-raiding activities perpetrated

by Balangingi, Samal, and the Ilanun people
under the command of the Sultanate of Sulu.
Moro resistance and retaliation to Spaniards
Use of sophisticated maritime vessels were
launched to capture natives and make them
slaves
GEOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT
Understanding the history through geographical clues
CONTEXT
A historical perspective of its implications
CONTEXT

MORO’s Four Century “National Liberation

Movement”
Long standing Moro Conflict
Propagation of Christianity = prejudice against
the Moros
Moros involvement with different wars against
Spanish and Americans resulted to lost resources
thus resulting to poverty
SIGNIFICANCE
Class discussion