Visitors, many of them from other regions, are complaining about the fees being imposed by the Jose Rizal Protected Area Management Board.
ZAMBOANGA DEL NORTE, Philippines – Students and other visitors to Rizal’s Shrine within the Jose Rizal Memorial Protective Landscape in Dapitan have frowned over the collection of entrance fees, describing it as discouraging those who want to learn about the national hero’s life in the city during his exile.
COLLECTION. Protected Area Management Office workers at a checkpoint where entrance and parking fees are collected. – Gualberto Laput / Rappler But Insag cited Section 16 of Republic Act 11038, also known as the Expanded National Integrated Protected Area System, which provides that protected areas should establish a “trust fund” to finance projects and sustain operations.
He said that if the Rizal Shrine requests maintenance funds from their collection, they can provide it as long as a program of works is submitted.A student from DCNHS, who visited the Rizal Shrine on May 5 with five classmates to create a short video production about Rizal’s four years of exile in Dapitan, told Rappler that the collection of entrance fees “is discouraging and seems to contradict” Dapitan City’s goal of attracting tourists and educating the youth about the hero’s ideals.
The JRPAMP resolution, unanimously approved, read in part that the PAMO “shall coordinate with the City Mayor’s Office for the information and dissemination of the new rates and the appropriate legal basis, and coordinate with the city to man and control the highway near the protected area.”
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