2005 Volume 5 Issue 2 Pages 93-102
Several Indonesian NGOs have been investigated to analyze the possibilities and limitations in networking NGOs in the Indonesian context. The consciousness survey on networking NGOs revealed that strategic networking would be superior to interaction-oriented networking, in spite of centric nature of the NGO network itself as part of interaction-oriented networks. The practices of PRA (Participatory Rural Appraisal) were widely spread in the Yogyakarta and Nusa Tenggara areas, while its training institutes were mainly located in Jakarta and West Java, with the structure of networking PRA facilitators dependent on a few key persons as links. These results indicated that the networking process among NGOs was essentially limited by three contradictory factors: 1) resources (time, money and human resources), 2) co-existing diverse values, and 3) necessity of consensus-making processes.
