the registration of their CADT. This should not be the case if the JAO was functional. Rather, the affected IPs should be able to devote their energy and time to positive activities: to improving their management over their CADT, developing their ancestral domain and livelihoods, and to facing existing threats of encroachment of illegal logging in forested areas and illegal cattle pastures in grasslands. The non-registration of the CADTs has fostered a negative attitude between and among local and national government units concerning ancestral domain rights. The never-ending prolonging of the registration and awarding of the CADT has undermined the indigenous peoples’ rights to self-determination over their ancestral domain/land. It has encouraged other groups and government agencies to disregard or selectively respect the rights of the IPs to their CADT area. Encroachment into the CADT areas has intensified. In Miarayon, the nonregistration of the CADT has emboldened neighboring lowlander, non-IPs to intensify continuing illegal extraction of lumber from the remaining forests and charcoal from woodland areas. Several cases of lowlanders purchasing land or house lots from Talaandig individuals in contravention of the Talaandig ADSDPP and IPRA law have recently occurred. This has been difficult to address because the Talaandig leadership has been unable to prove that the CADT is titled and registered to the IPs. Analysis of Issues and Problems of Implementation of JAO 01 n The guidelines set forth in the JAO for the preparation of Map Projections was a main objective to streamline the process of CADT/ CALT registrations. However, rather than facilitate the preparation of Map Projections, the JAO has resulted into a bureaucratic gridlock that has impeded AD registration by withholding the necessary information from the NCIP and therefore blocking the registration process with the LRA. n A Map Projection is merely a technical process to indicate possible overlaps of titled properties, government reservations, and permits. This is public information. A Map Projection makes no decisions or judgments as to whether the titled properties, government reservations, or issued permits should be excluded and/or segregated 22 The Joint Administrative Order No. 01 series of 2012: A Policy Review