Sitangkai
Sitangkai is a municipality of Tawi-Tawi, in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. It is divided into 9 barangays, and had 42,172 residents at the 2024 census.
- Province
- Tawi-Tawi
- Classification
- Municipality
- Barangays
- 9
- PSGC code
- 157005000
42,172
Population (2024)
792 km²
Land area
53
People per km²
+13%
Change since 2020
Governed under
- Bangsamoro Autonomy Act 49 — Bangsamoro Local Governance Code of 2023Enacted September 28, 2023. The governing code inside BARMM: it creates the offices described here, fixes their terms and pay, and devolves the services. It repealed the ARMM code it replaced.
- Implementing Rules and Regulations of the BLGCPromulgated September 30, 2025. 696 articles setting out how the Code is carried out — the procedures, deadlines and rate ceilings quoted on this page.
- Republic Act 7160 — Local Government Code of 1991The national code. Inside BARMM it applies only where the Bangsamoro one is silent.
Sitangkai's share of Tawi-Tawi
8.7%
The rest of Tawi-Tawi
The record
- Population, 2024 census
- 42,172
- Population, 2020 census
- 37,319
- Change, 2020 to 2024
- +13% (4,853 people)
- Land area
- 792 km²
- Population density
- 53 per km²
- Barangays
- 9
- Average barangay population
- 4,686
- Share of Tawi-Tawi
- 8.7%
Reading it
Population is the count as of July 1, 2024, the reference date of the 2024 Census of Population. The 2020 figure is from the census before it, so the change covers 4 years rather than a single year.
Density is the census population over the land area on record. It is a flat average: a coastal town whose people all live along one road will read the same as one spread evenly across its hills.
Average barangay population divides the total across every barangay equally, which no municipality actually does — it is useful for comparing units, not for describing one.
All barangays
9
01Datu Baguinda PutihAWADI, PUTLIH RASAM AHAJA9
Punong Barangay
AWADI, PUTLIH RASAM AHAJA
- Barangay Secretary · appointed
- PAJIJI, DINHUA TAN
Sangguniang Barangay · 7
- 1AHAJA, HJA. WILMA KINGKING
- 2LU, RENZIE TUNGGAL
- 3KINGKING, ELEONOR RODRIGUEZ
- 4KALBI, KALSUM ABBAS
- 5DAGGONG, SAWORATA MOHAMMAD
- 6ABUBAKAR, AMILHUSSIN IDRIS
- 7MANGSAN, SHERHA SAID
02Imam SapieWERBLE, QUEZON HAMSID9
Punong Barangay
WERBLE, QUEZON HAMSID
- Barangay Secretary · appointed
- ABDURAJAK, SORAYA SAIDUL
Sangguniang Barangay · 7
- 1WERBLE, INTAN MALABONG
- 2MALABONG, ALLAN KUNSA
- 3AMIL, HAMLA KINGKING
- 4JABARAL, FARSON BALATDAYA
- 5SUBAANI, ALALMAKSUN LAWNI
- 6ALIBASSAL, SHUAILYN DAMSIK
- 7ISMAEL, NADJIPHA MOHAMMAD
03North LarapPALMATA, HASIM LAIDDIN9
Punong Barangay
PALMATA, HASIM LAIDDIN
- Barangay Secretary · appointed
- BANDAHALA, NADZRA JUNAIDE
Sangguniang Barangay · 7
- 1HADJI MUSA, DANIEL MULOK
- 2PALMATA, HENRY OYONG
- 3ABDULCAWI, SAMSUDDIN SAHIBUDDIN
- 4MUKSIN, MUKRIE OTOHDIKI
- 5NASA, ALHAN JAPARA
- 6ABUBAKAR, SHERMA HAMBALI
- 7ASMURI, DESDIMONA JAMMA
04Panglima AlariBAHIDJAN, MIMANG JIMLAN9
Punong Barangay
BAHIDJAN, MIMANG JIMLAN
- Barangay Secretary · appointed
- AMING, ANANG AWAB
Sangguniang Barangay · 7
- 1ABDULA, NURSIBA LAKIBUL
- 2ABUSAMAN, MARILYN IBBA
- 3SAHIBIL, HARBI ISLANI
- 4ABDURAJAN, JAN AKBARA
- 5BASALUDDIN, ELDANG TUAN BARA
- 6ASAD, ALEXIS LAKIBUL
- 7TAWASIL, WEENA YULANDA
05SipangkotJUAINI, ARAFAT DAHI9
Punong Barangay
JUAINI, ARAFAT DAHI
- Barangay Secretary · appointed
- ALLAMA, GARAMA BAIRULLA
Sangguniang Barangay · 7
- 1ABDURAHIM, BENZAR HAMSIRAJI
- 2ALVIN, MALYN ARAJI
- 3BANDAHALA, SABTULA EKID
- 4BALADJI, ALKAMSAR DAHI
- 5JAMIRI, GUILLIAN LIM
- 6JULKARNAIN, KASDIATUL KASIRI
- 7SALAHI, ALRADZNIL TINGGIH
06Sitangkai PoblacionAHAJA, ROWENA KONG9
Punong Barangay
AHAJA, ROWENA KONG
- Barangay Secretary · appointed
- TALIB, NURHUSSIN SANNOH
Sangguniang Barangay · 7
- 1SUBUHON, MUBARIK ASAD
- 2ANGLI, BEN JULKANAIN
- 3LIGAYA, ANNA AMBULDANI
- 4IBBIH, MUNDING ABAD JR.
- 5BANTUHAN, FERDAUSHA JUMDAINI
- 6PALAHUDDIN, AL-SHAIMA HARUN
- 7LADJA, ABDURAHMAN MASILLAM
07South LarapSAHIAL, NURAIN INDANAN9
Punong Barangay
SAHIAL, NURAIN INDANAN
- Barangay Secretary · appointed
- ASSAN, MURPHY DAMMING
Sangguniang Barangay · 7
- 1TUSIN, KUDDIK BULKIA
- 2YUSOP, NASRI OYONG
- 3ASSAN, RIDA BULKIA
- 4PANDAOG, MELISA ARASAIN
- 5PANDAOG, FASKHAN ARASAIN
- 6IBA, SAPARI JAMMA
- 7MOHAMMAD, SITTI CALMA IBRAHIM
08TongmagengELAHAN, AIMOY PIANAH9
Punong Barangay
ELAHAN, AIMOY PIANAH
- Barangay Secretary · appointed
- BANNANG, SUDERMAN GAMPAL
Sangguniang Barangay · 7
- 1PIANAH, AIMILYN KONG
- 2LAUJIN, ATIKA MALIK
- 3JULA, EDDIE GAMPAL
- 4BUYOK, NUR SANGALAN
- 5GUIRITAN, EUTIQUIO LADRIDO
- 6ABDULJALIL, JIM ELIAS
- 7AiNNAO, IMBRAN JAJI
09TongusongMADAMIN, RUDY DALAWIS9
Punong Barangay
MADAMIN, RUDY DALAWIS
- Barangay Secretary · appointed
- HAMSAN, FAIZAL TUKUK
Sangguniang Barangay · 7
- 1JULAID, ALVIN SANUSI
- 2HUSSIN, CHERRELYN TAHAMIN
- 3HABIBON, ADZMAN JAKARIA
- 4MUTALIB, KAMLUN JOUHAL
- 5SALABIO, JACKIA TAIB
- 6SAMMAH, RASID NUR
- 7ILAHAN, MARVIN JAMIL
Each barangay is its own local government unit with an elected punong barangay and council. The code beside a name is its PSGC identifier — the number every national record uses for that barangay.
Officials are from DILG’s Barangay Officials Directory as it stood on 2026-09-26; 9 of these 9 barangays have an entry in it. DILG publishes no term alongside the names and updates the directory as barangays report, so a name here is the last one filed rather than a guarantee of who holds the office today. DILG’s directory also carries contact details, which are not repeated here.
The office since 2001
1 surname- 2025–2028AHAJA, ALLANheldIND
- 2022–2025AHAJA, TIBLANheldTOP
- 2019–2022AHAJA, TIBLANheldNUP
- 2016–2019AHAJA, SERBINheldLP
- 2013–2016AHAJA, SERBINheldLP
- 2010–2013AHAJA, TIBLAN C.heldNP
- 2007–2010AHAJA, SERBIN CANONheldLAKAS-CMD
- 2004–2007AHAJA, TIBLAN CANONheldLAKAS-CMD
- 2001–2004AHAJA, TIBLAN CANONLAKAS NUCD-UMDP
“Held” marks a term whose office-holder shares a surname with the term before it. Surnames, not people — a seat passing between relatives reads the same here as one person re-elected, and in most of these towns it is the more common of the two.
2025 National and Local Elections · elected May 12, 2025 · in office June 30, 2025 to June 30, 2028
COMELEC — 2025 election results, Certificates of Canvass↗Mayor
AHAJA, ALLAN
IND10,744 votes62.34%
1 other candidate
- 02AHAJA, SERBINPFP6,49037.66%
Vice-Mayor
AHAJA, TIBLAN
PFP11,724 votes100%
Sangguniang Bayan
8 elected of 10 candidates
- 01ATTANG, AZIZPFP11,68313.36%
- 02AHAJA, AL-HARISPFP9,90111.32%
- 03NAWANG, JULWAHIDIND9,32810.66%
- 04YUSOPH, MOHAMMADIND9,10610.41%
- 05NAWANG, MYCASHARAPFP8,85510.12%
- 06HAPAS, BRYANPFP8,2179.39%
- 07ASAALI, RADZHATAPFP8,1369.3%
- 08AHAJA, ABDEL YAMANIPFP8,0739.23%
2 not elected
- 09PIANAH, JADZLEEPFP7,6378.73%
- 10JOE, ANDERSENPFP6,5447.48%
And for Tawi-Tawi as a whole
Provincial Governor
SALI, YSHMAEL
PFP133,217 votes67.87%
1 other candidate
- 02SAHALI, RUBYAKSYON63,07832.13%
Provincial Vice-Governor
SALI, AL-SYED
PFP142,259 votes76.96%
1 other candidate
- 02LIPAE, ALGARADAKSYON42,59423.04%
What a municipality is responsible for.
These services are devolved to this level by the Bangsamoro Local Governance Code, so they describe what Sitangkaiis mandated to provide — not an inventory of what its offices currently run. For opening hours and requirements, the unit’s own hall is the source.
Health
01- Rural health units, health centers and barangay health stations
- Primary health care, maternal and child care, communicable disease control
- Purchase of medicines and medical supplies
Social services
02- Day care centers and child and family welfare
- Programs for women, the elderly and persons with disabilities
- Nutrition, family planning and community-based rehabilitation
Infrastructure and public works
03- Municipal or city roads, bridges, drainage and flood control
- School buildings, health centers, public markets and slaughterhouses
- Water supply systems and communal irrigation
- Sites for the police and fire stations and the municipal jail
Permits, records and regulation
04- Business permits and licensing
- Building permits and zoning enforcement
- Civil registry — birth, marriage and death certificates
- Real property assessment and tax collection
- Reclassifying farmland — capped at 15% of the town’s agricultural land, 10% or 5% in smaller classes
Agriculture, environment and safety
05- Agricultural extension, seed farms and fisheries
- Solid waste collection and disposal
- Community-based forestry projects
- Fire and police coordination, and disaster risk reduction
And at the barangay
Frontline services
- Barangay clearance and certificates of residency and indigency
- Barangay health station and day care center
- Katarungang Pambarangay — a lupon of 10 to 20 members mediates disputes before they reach court
Community
- Barangay tanod and peace and order at street level — one tanod per 200 residents, 30 at most
- Maintenance of barangay roads, footpaths and water supply
- Solid waste segregation at source
- Agricultural support — planting materials and farm produce collection and buying stations
Money it handles
- A tax of up to 1% on stores with gross sales under ₱50,000 in a city or ₱30,000 in a municipality
- Its share of the real property tax — 25% of what the province collects on property in it
- 10% of its general fund set aside for the Sangguniang Kabataan
- Its own annual budget, reviewed by the city or municipal council within 90 days
And what you pay it.
These are the ceilings the Bangsamoro Local Governance Code and its implementing rules set on what a municipality and its barangays may charge, with the deadlines that go with them. Sitangkai sets its own rates by ordinance and may charge less, so treat these as the most it can be rather than the bill — the hall has the ordinance.
Community tax certificate — the cedula
IRR arts. 452, 454
₱20, plus ₱1 for every ₱1,000 of income, up to ₱5,000 in all
Accrues 1 January, due by the last day of February. 24% a year on what is late.
Real property tax — the amilyar
IRR arts. 530, 531, 540, 541
Up to 1% of assessed value in a province, up to 2% in a city, plus 1% for the Special Education Fund
In full by 31 March, or in four instalments due 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December. Up to 20% off for paying early.
Business tax
IRR arts. 439, 444
Graduated by gross sales — a retailer pays 2% on the first ₱400,000 and 1% above it
Within the first 20 days of January, or of each quarter.
Professional tax
IRR art. 447
Up to ₱1,300 a year, and it covers practice anywhere in the country
By 31 January, or before you begin to practice.
Transfer of land
IRR art. 437
Up to 0.5% of the price or the fair market value, whichever is higher
Within 60 days of the deed, or of the death of the owner.
Barangay clearance
IRR art. 457
A reasonable fee the barangay council sets by ordinance
On application. The barangay also collects a store tax of up to 1% from the smallest shops.
Filing a complaint at the barangay
IRR arts. 64, 65, 78
Free — the katarungang pambarangay charges no filing fee
Mediation runs 15 days, then 15 more before the pangkat.
Paying any local tax late
IRR art. 459
A surcharge of up to 25%, plus up to 2% a month, capped at 36 months
Runs from the day the tax fell due.
About these figures
Structure from the Philippine Standard Geographic Code; population and land area from Wikidata, which carries PSA’s census figures with their census dates. Population is the 2024 Census of Population. Elected officials are the winners in COMELEC’s 2025 Certificates of Canvass, holding office to June 30, 2028.
Sulu is excluded: the Supreme Court removed it from BARMM. PSA census totals that still count Sulu will therefore be larger than the totals here. Cotabato City is listed as an area of its own, though PSA files it inside Maguindanao del Norte — the provincial figure here has the city taken out of it so the two are not counted twice. Province land area is the province’s own published figure, never a sum of its municipalities: Philippine municipal areas are self-reported and overlap, so they do not add up to the province they sit in. A blank is a fact about the record, not a zero.
A dash means the record has no figure — not a zero. Boundaries and office-holders change; where this differs from an official page, the official page is right.