 This, plus the centralization of authority in Isabela, assured a steady and uninterrupted development of Basilan's countryside.In the early part of the 1990s, however, the government's implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) brought widespread confusion and severely affected Basilan's traditional plantation agriculture economy.The withdrawal of the multi-national plantations was quickly followed by the decommissioning of their respective security contingents.