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Indonesia’s organised voluntary sector has a history dating back to the beginning of the twentieth century. These social welfare organisations were established in the health care, social welfare and formal education sectors in response to the government’s top-down development approach which had only a limited impact on the poor in a country of enormous geographic and cultural diversity. By the 1960s, new organisations motivated by ideals of self-reliance and emphasising development emerged which began to replace the welfare orientation of the earlier organisations. According to the US PVO PACT, these organisations aimed to:
bridge the gap between the needs of that [disadvantaged] citizenry and the goals of national government programmes. They began by responding to the diverse problems and aspirations articulated at the grassroots level, and then carving out development roles not assumed by government or business.
(Farrington and Lewis with Satish and Miclat-Teves, 1993)
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Cleary, S. (1997). In Whose Interest? Authoritarian Social Organisation, NGO Advocacy Campaigns and the Poorest: an Exploration of Two Indonesian Examples. In: The Role of NGOs under Authoritarian Political Systems. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375086_2
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