, a former rebel leader found his way back to society as an entrepreneur, developing a major ecotourism site in Zamboanga Sibugay – a province once associated with banditry, extortion, and kidnapping.
“People will always look at you as a troublemaker, and an outlaw,” he said. But he has learned to live by it. Ali said the relative ease he experienced has given him time to tend to the family’s properties – a piece of land and an islet off Naga town in Zamboanga Sibugay.“All my children are now professionals,” he said, beaming.
The tourism trend inspired him to develop the area into “something different from other beach resorts.”
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