Submitted by:

Jordan S, Abugadji

Submitted to:
Dr. Muktar Mohammad Tahil
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

I- Background of the study

II- Statement of the problem
III- Purpose of the study
IV- Limitations of the study
V- Definition of the terms
VII- Presentation of the study
VIII- Recap of the study
IX- Finding of the study
X- Bibliography/ Reference
 Background of the study

Mapun , officially the Municipality of Mapun , is a 4th class municipality in the

province of Tawi-Tawi , Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a
population of 30,038 people.  Mapun is an island municipality in the Sulu Sea on
the south-western extreme of the Philippines, located very close to Sabah ,
Malaysia as well as to Palawan . The people inhabiting the island are known as
Jama Mapun or "people of Mapun". Their local language is Pullun Mapun ,
which means "Mapun language".

Mapun Tawi-Tawi is surrounded by several islets such as:

Manda
Boan
Kinapusan
Pamilikan
Lapun-Lapun
Bintuut
Muligi
Most of these are located at Barangay Umus Mataha.

Barangays
Mapun is politically subdivided into 15 barangays.
Boki
Duhul Batu
Guppah
Iruk-Iruk
Kompang
Liyubud (Poblacion )
Lubbak Parang
Lupa Pula
Mahalu
Pawan
Sapah
Sikub
Tabulian
Tanduan
Umus Mataha

Statement of the problems

This study aimed to study the history of Mapun island and its people.

Specifically, this study sought to answer the following questions:

1. What are belief if Jama Mapun?

2. Where is Jama mapun found?
3. What region in Mapun, Tawi-Tawi?
4. Where did the name Jama Mapun come from?

Purpose of the study

The purpose of this study is to know and have knowledge to the last island of
Tawi-Tawi which is Mapun.

Jama Mapun is from the word Jama meaning people, and Mapun which
indicates the name of the Island Municipality of Mapun, thus called the “People
of Mapun” . They are one of the Bangsamoro Ethnic tribes in the Philippines .
They are the Sama-speaking people widely known for their creativity and
traditions.

The Jama Mapun are distributed over a wide area from Borneo to the
southwestern Philippines and Palawan, but the largest concentration is on the
island of Cagayan de Sulu. They are more oriented towards a land-based
existence than most Sama groups, but are also heavily oriented towards
maritime trade emphasizing copra and forest products; they receive many
consumer products through barter with northern Borneo cities. They live both
on the coast and in the interiorof their islands. Kinship is traced bilaterally, but
there are unilineal features such as the patrilineal inheritance of titles. Political
structure revolves around the Sultanate, but there is also an ancestor based
grouping called lungun. The elaborate music and dance of the Jama Mapun are
related to those of Southeast Asia.

Limitation of the study

The limitations of this study are some information and data cannot be found and
doesn't matched. Some of the point of views according to my source, we can't
easily indicate or can't be trusted because we need to know and conduct some
research and it is took so much of time.

Definition of terms

1. Sanging- Banana
2. Lawoy - Plate
3. Lulus - watch
4. Jama- people
5. Pallun Mapun- language of mapun

Core of the study

Jama Mapun is from the word Jama meaning peole. and Mapun which indicates
the name of the Island Municipality of Mapun, thus called the "People of
Mapun". They are one of the Bangsamoro Ethnic tribes in the Philippines They
are the Sama speaking people widely known for their creativity and traditions.

The Jama Mapun at the turn of the 20th century and in the early 1900s were
somewhat nomadic and targely dependenent on the natural environment Before
the wedispread planting of cash crops such as coconut in agricultural areas. The
Jama Mapun relied on subsistence farming, gathering from the sea and the
forest, and trading These activities had specific names "Padilaut" (earning a
living from the sea) "ngusaha"(all kinds of economic activities). "Lome"
(trading). and "huma" (multicropsubsistence agriculture). the basic economic
activity. Produce from the Huma including dry or upland rice, cassava, camote
(sweet potato), various root crops and vegetables, and fruit trees.
 Presentation of the study

The Jama Mapun, literally, “people of Mapun,” are the indigenous people from the
municipality of Mapun. The Jama Mapun are closely related to the Samal or Sama,
and they are often referred to as the Samal Kagayan by the Tausug of Sulu or as the
Sama Dilaut, also called Badjao, or the Orang Cagayan by the coastal Muslims of
Borneo (Casiño 1976, 8).

Mapun in Sulu Archipelago is classified as a fourth-class municipality. It was called

Cagayan de Sulu by Spanish colonialists and later named Cagayan de Tawi-Tawi upon
the establishment of Tawi-Tawi province in 1973. But no matter what outsiders called
their homeland, the Jama Mapun always refer to their native territory as Tanah Mapun
or Land of Mapun. In 1988, President Corazon Aquino signed Republic Act (RA)
6672 to officially allow the municipality to revert to its ancient name Mapun, which
means “you forgive” in their native language.

The Mapun municipality is located on the farthest part of Tawi-Tawi province in the
northwest. Its distance from Bongao, the capital of Tawi-Tawi, is about 262
kilometers. This isolated municipality is 354 kilometers west of Zamboanga City and
about 111 kilometers north of Sandakan, Sabah.

Therefore, it is easier to reach Mapun from Sabah than from Zamboanga. Northwest
of Mapun is Palawan and south is Sabah, Malaysia. The municipality has 15
barangays and a total land area of 28,129 hectares or 281.29 square kilometers.

Recap of the study

History and legend suggest that Arab trader- missionaries visited Cagayan de Sulu as
early as the 13th century. The Jama Mapun considered the Arabs as belonging to a
higher culture; hence, conversion to Islam was equated with cultural advancement
(Casiño 1976, 117). Islam and its institutions gave rise to the strengthening of the
sultanate as a political system. Thus emerged two powerful political centers—the
Sultanate of Sulu and the Sultanate of Maguindanao and Buayan. The Sulu Sultanate
is based on the tiny islands that look deceptively insignificant on the map.

However, these islands are along the borders of the Pacific Ocean, Celebes Sea,
Malacca Strait, and the West Philippine Sea, which used to be the routes of
international trade and commerce. By the 15th century, the economic and political
power of the Sulu Sultanate gained control over Kalimantan, Indonesia with capital at
Balikpapan. Meanwhile, Sabah or North Borneo became part of the Sulu Sultanate in
1675 when the sultan of Brunei gave the territory to the sultan of Sulu because the
latter helped in pacifying a revolt in Brunei.

The Jama Mapun people constitute the great majority of the island’s population.
They speak a Sama-Bajau language of the Austronesian language family, and most are
adherents of Islam.

Finding of the study

As a conclusion of this study Mapun is a coastal municipality with a land area of

181.29 square kilometers or 70.00 square miles. It is located on the south-western
extreme of the Philippines, very close to Sabah, Malaysia. The people inhabiting the
island are known as Jama Mapun or “people of Mapun”. To know more the
varieties of jama mapun, their history and belief.

Bibliography/Reference

1. ^ Municipality of Mapun | (DILG)

2. ^ "Mapun, Tawi-Tawi : Average Temperatures and

Rainfall" . Meteoblue. Retrieved 30 January 2019.

3.^ "Province of Tawi-tawi" . Municipality Population

Data . Local Water Utilities Administration Research
Division. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
4.^ https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/2003%20SAE
%20of%20poverty%20%28Full%20Report
%29_1.pdf ; publication date: 23 March 2009;
publisher: Philippine Statistics Authority.