THE ROLE OF PRESIDENT OF PHILIPPINES IN COMBATING ISIS: THE CASE OF MARAWI (2016-2018)

Abstract

Terrorism is a problem that has made the world chaotic and split long ago. Terrorism has become the idea of killing children, women, and other innocent people. This radicalism also indirectly makes Islam considered one of the religions that started terrorism itself, which also tarnished the name of Islam and made "Islamophobia" as a new disease. The 9/11 incident in the United States can be said to be a modern-day terrorist initiator. The increasing reputation of ISIS has made many terrorist organizations in other parts of the world expressing loyalty to follow them. Two of the many organizations are Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) and Maute Brothers in the Philippines. With two groups of followers there, they assigned both groups to capture the Marawi city and appointed Isnilon Hapilon, the ASG leader, to become Emir and Abdullah and Omarkhayam Maute, the leader of the Maute Brothers as his khalifa. In elections in 2016, the Philippines named a new president named Rodrigo Duterte, a hard-working person and wanted to remove drugs from his homeland. Brutally duterte kills every dealer and drug dealer Bandar. But by mid-2017, its mission to the Philippines was slightly disturbed by a terrorist organization under the influence of ISIS in the country. On May 23, 2017, the Philippine Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) was assigned to capture the Emir Isnilon Hapilon, unfortunately the operation failed and the two terrorist groups succeeded in occupying Marawi. The purpose of this study is to investigate how Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte reclaimed the marawi City and what policies he has made in the process. The materials and data for this study were obtained from official publications of the Philippine government.