Photo by : RMAS – Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation

on November 11, 2023 Watchdoc Documentary attended the 65th Ramon Magsaysay awards held at the Metropolitan Theater Manila, Philippines. Watchdoc Documentary’s attending Ramon Magsaysay award to receive Ramon Magsaysay award which was given to Watchdoc Documentary in 2021.

“What makes us proud is that this award is recognition of collective work. “Not an individual achievement,” said Dandhy Laksono who represented Watchdoc alongside Edy Purwanto, Watchdoc senior producer.

Apart from Watchdoc, the 2021 Ramon Magsaysay award was also given to Roberto Ballon (a fisherman from the Philippines), Firdausi Qadri (a doctor from Bangladesh), Steven Muncy (Asian humanitarian activist), and M Amjad Saqib (an economist from Pakistan). The Ramon Magsaysay award is often called the ‘Asian Nobel’, named after the seventh president of the Philippines.

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