Heeding President Rodrigo Duterte’s directive to make government transactions transparent to the public, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) recently came out with its own Freedom of Information (FOI) Manual, making it one of the first government agencies to comply with the presidential order.

However, an organization of campus journalists on Saturday criticized Malacañang for not allowing private media organizations to cover the launch of the Freedom of Information online portal and manuals on Friday, saying it contrasts the principle of transparency that the FOI serves.

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