“…The worldwide proliferation of NGOs in the 1990s reached Southeast Asia at the end of that decade. Since then, the Southeast Asian NGO scene has become more diversified and pluriform (Aviel 1999;Aviel 2000). While there is little doubt that the number of people oriented in grassroots groups and community organizations has increased, so have NGOs with a profound government, donor or business orientation (Reinalda 2001).…”