BACOLOD CITY – The National Commission for Culture and the Arts has issued a Certificate of Compliance for the registration of the chicken inasal as a cultural property of this city.
CHICKEN inasal cooking on a grill. (Bacolod PIO)
The NCCA’s recognition of chicken inasal as cultural property was announced during the opening of the Bacolod Chicken Inasal Festival here on May 24.
However, City Tourism Officer Maria Teresa Manalili on Tuesday, May 28, said that registration and declaration are two different processes.
Registration of cultural property is done by the Philippine Registry of Heritage while declaration is done by various cultural agencies, Manalili, quoting a text from the NCCA, said.
An email from the NCCA furnished by Manalili congratulated this city for being a recipient of a COC for Calendar Year 2023 in relation to the Local Cultural Inventory (LCI) submitted by the city on December 15, 2023 in compliance with Article V of Republic Act No. 11961 as amended by RA 10066 or the National Cultural Heritage Act of 2009.
Manalili said that the NCCA reiterated that the COC is for compliance with Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG)-NCCA Joint Memorandum Circular 2021-001 or the “Amended Guidelines on the Standardized Submission of Local Cultural Inventory under the Philippine Registry of Cultural Property for the Issuance of Certificate of Compliance to Local Government Units.”
Manalili said that this development is still a positive impact for this city.
She said they will ask the NCCA for guidance on the next steps to make.
In 2022, the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) approved an ordinance authored by Councilor Em Ang, chairperson of the Committee on History, Culture, and Arts, that declared chicken inasal as an important cultural property (ICP) under the Chicken Inasal Cultural Property Rights Ordinance.