Southeast Asia, a political treatment.

... Southeast Asia, a political treatment. In the current state of global environmental activism it is arguable as to who are the key players. In Southeast Asia Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) have played a significant role in bringing forth issues that are presented as a conflict between personal opinions, economic progress and environmental concerns. There is a great divide mentioned by both authors between the state and the individual. The ideal role of the individual in a democratic state would be one governed not by subjection or coercion but by self-imposed governance. It is the internalization of state control by self-regulation that can insure citizens' exercising rights and responsibilities. That said, the roles of NGO in Southeast Asia have been to make apparent that which an individual may not be able to see or to act on, not even on a community level. The agenda of the organization is usually to get government

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