'I-Witness' Docu Takes You To Distant Places In Our Country For Their 13Th Anniversary

FOR ITS 13th ANNIVERSARY series, the award-winning docu show “I-Witness” will travel to the four corners of our country’s 7,000 islands to show the diversity of our people. For the first leg of this series, Sandra Aguinaldo goes to the western edge of the Philippines in Balabag Island in Palawan to take a peek at the lives of the Molbog tribe.

No other television camera has reached this place, until now. To get there, Sandra flies by plane to Puerto Prinsesa, takes a van for a 5-hour road trip, and then a 6-hour boat ride, crossing a snake and crocodile-infested swamp. In this place, time seems to stand still and the Molbog’s way of life has been preserved for many generations. Some of the old women are sill comfortable doing their daily chores topless.

Since they have no hospitals and doctors, people turn to witch doctors for medical help. Most members of the Molbog tribe don’t care much about politics either. They don't even have an idea who the current Philippine president is. How does geography change the way Filipinos live in different parts of the country? Sandra Aguinaldo answers this on Monday on I-Witness after Saksi on GMA7.