NEW TERRITORY Children perform at the Pikit town plaza during a Christmas program last year. In the background is the historic Pikit town hall which sits in a village that is now part of the Bangsamoro region. —PHOTO COURTESY OF SUMULONG SULTAN COTABATO CITY — More than four years after choosing to be part of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), residents of 63 villages in Cotabato province will soon have their own local governments as the region's interim parliament passed the measures organizing these communities into eight new towns.

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