Saidamen Balt Pangarungan is a lawyer and was Governor of Lanao del Sur province in the Philippines from 1988 to 1992.
He was also a member of the Philippine delegation at the World Muslim Congress in Karachi, Pakistan in 1983, where he sponsored the adoption of the ‘Karachi Declaration for Peace & Unity’. In 2007, he became President of the Agus 3 Hydropower Corporation.
He was enthroned Sultan of the Sultanate of Madaya, Marawi City on July 5, 2009. He is married to Princess Johayra Diamond Ali Pacasum Pangarungan - Bailabi a Gaus sa Ranao and former assemblywoman of Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
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