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Raiders of The: Sulu Sea

This document provides context about the documentary "Raiders of the Sulu Sea" produced by Oak3 Films in 2008. It discusses how the film examines the historical slave trading activities conducted by the Sama Balanguingui and Iranun people under the Sultanate of Sulu in the Sulu Sea region during the 18th-19th centuries. It also profiles some of the key figures and groups involved like Datu Taupan and Panglima Taupan, as well as the vessels, weapons, and Spanish suppression of the slave raiding communities in 1848 that led to their relocation.

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Raiders of The: Sulu Sea

This document provides context about the documentary "Raiders of the Sulu Sea" produced by Oak3 Films in 2008. It discusses how the film examines the historical slave trading activities conducted by the Sama Balanguingui and Iranun people under the Sultanate of Sulu in the Sulu Sea region during the 18th-19th centuries. It also profiles some of the key figures and groups involved like Datu Taupan and Panglima Taupan, as well as the vessels, weapons, and Spanish suppression of the slave raiding communities in 1848 that led to their relocation.

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RAIDERS OF THE

SULU SEA
CONTEXT: RAIDERS OF THE SULU SEA
Oak3 Films:
• Founded by Zaihirat Banu Codelli (CEO)
along with Lim Suat Yen (COO) and Jason
Lai ( Director of Content in 1996

• Entered the international market in 2003


with a documentary co-produced with Discovery
Asia named “The Gods Must Be Hungry”

• Co Produced Documentaries educational films


with companies from different countries throughout
the years
CONTEXT: RAIDERS OF THE SULU SEA
Oak3 Films:
• Raiders of the Sulu Sea is a product of co-
production agreement between Media
Authority of Singapore and Korean Broadcasting
Commission

• First released in 2007 for Q channel Korea

• Distributed internationally by Looking Glass


International through Discovery channel and
History Channel (for Asia) in 2008

• Running time: 48 minutes & 43 seconds

• Directed by: Idzwuan Othman


RAIDERS OF THE SULU SEA
“Raiders of the Sulu Sea” is a historical-documentary (2008) about the slave-trading
activities perpetrated by the Sama Balanguingui and the Iranun/Ilanun under
direction of the Sultanate Sulu
KEY INFORMANTS
ICELLE GLORIA B. ESTRADA
• Art Historian
Zamboanga Del Norte
DR. SAMUEL K. TAN
• Historian
National Historical
Institute
DR. BARBARA W. ANDAYA
• Professor, an Australian
Historian
DR. JULUIS BAUTISTA
• Associate Professor
DR. MARGARITA D. COJUANCO
•Filipino Politician
Philanthropist
HALMA L. ABUBAKAR
• Councilor of Jolo Sulu
SULU IN SPANISH TIMES
• Jolo was a ‘slave market’ in the 18 – 19th century.

• Datu Taupan also known as Panglima Taupan. The leader of the Sama
Balangingi of Zamboanga , Basilan and Tonquil island.
• Spain wanted to control maritime trade in Sulu Sea in addi6 to it’s goal
Christianizing the population , money, and mission can go together.
DATU TAUPAN
• TAUSUG ("people of the current"—tau, "people"; sug, "sea current") are
the numerically dominant group in the Sulu Archipelago of the southern
Philippines. constituted the people of the Sultanate of Sulu or Lupah Sug
and speak the Tausug language that is related to the Butuan dialect ( T.
Kiefer).

• SAMA BALANGUINGUI- one of the sama communities that originally


inhabited the Tongkil Island group, they were relocated to Zamboanga
Peninsula Coast and Island as a result of the 1848 military campaign.
• IRANUN/ ILANUN – they were portrayed as “ merciless” in the
documentary , inhabited the Ilana bay area in Southwestern Mindanao
whose language is intelligible with the maranaw . They were a fierce marine
force of the Sultanate Sulu.
IRANUN/ ILANUN PIRATE
FORT PILLAR
• Real Fort de Nuestra Seora del Pilar de Zaragoza
• Formerly: Real Fuerza de San Jose ( Royal Fort of Saint Joseph)
• Located in Zamboanga City
• 17th Century military defense fortress built by the Spanish colonial
government.
• 4 meters high 2 acres wide
• Requested by Jersuit Priest and Bishop Fray
Pedro of Cebu upon the approval of the Spanish
Governor of the Philippines Juan Cerezo de
Salamanca.
• Architects: Father Melchor de Vera 8J ( 1635)
Juan Sicarra ( 1718)
MARITIME CIVILIZATION
• Proof of a maritime civilization is based on 1977 archeological findings from
Butuan.
• Built sea worthy vessels navigated ny adopt sailors in a labor- intensive economy
that bartered birds nests, tripang and pearls.
• Slaves worked as gatherers, rowers and helpers.
• Therefore slave raiding sale and distribution was considered part of international
trade in Southeast Asia.
• It was “legal” (Abubakar, 2008).
SLAVE RAIDING VESSELS
LANONG
GARAY
SALISIPAN
WEAPONS USED BY THE RAIDERS

KALIS
BARONG
KAMPILAN
THE DESTRUCTION OF
BALANGUINGUI SETTLEMENT , 1848
• It was also seen as a struggle between freedom and preservation of identity
vs. oppression and subjugation.
• In 1848, spain with the acquisition of powerful steamships from Britain
succeeded in gradually ending slave- raiding before 1898. They destroyed
Balanguingui settlements in Tongkils Island ( now Balanguingui
Municipality)
• Pangilma Taupan eventually surrendered after his wife and kins taken
captives by Spanish forces, they were relocated to Zamboanga.

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