The proposal will also help end centuries of armed conflict and terrorism. Senator Honasan has also proposed a Mini-Marshall Plan for Mindanao to help jumpstart economic development, peace and order, and political unity. He is shepherding the Freedom of Information Act which he now refers to as the POGI Bill – People’s Ownership of Government Information Act, the National Mapping and Resource Authority Law and the Land Use Act. He is principal author and co-author of, among others, the Clean Air Act of 1999, Clean Water Act, the National Security Policy, Disaster Risk Reduction Management Act of 2009, the Solid Waste Management Act of 2000 and the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms Law (CARPER). He was re-elected in 2001, and again in 2007. He became Senator in 1995, the first truly independent candidate in Philippine political history to win in national elections. He was awarded the Presidential Commendation Medal for Government Service by then President Corazon C. In 1986, he was one of the principal players of the EDSA revolution as one of the leaders of the RAM (Reform the Armed Forces Movement) that broke away from the martial law government. In 1985 he was recognized as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men given by the Philippine Jaycees. In 1981, he took up his Masters Degree in Business Management at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM), where he graduated with distinction, in his masteral thesis.Īs a solider, he saw action in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao and earned a number of medals, awards, decorations and commendations for gallantry in action including three Distinguished Conduct Stars, Gold Cross medals and Wounded Personnel Medals sustained in combat. He then went on to the Philippine Military Academy, where he graduated as “Class Baron,” the recipient of the institution’s highest leadership award. He graduated with honors at Don Bosco High School in Mandaluyong and took up Economics at the University of the Philippines.

His elementary years were spent at San Beda College in Manila where he was a consistent honor student and accelerated from grade 4 to grade 6, and the Dominican School in Taipei, Taiwan. Honasan was born on Main Baguio City to Colonel Romeo Honasan and Alice Ballesteros, a teacher from Sorsogon. 507 & 13 (New Wing 5/F) GSIS Bldg., Financial Center,Įmail:,

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