Abstract

• Throughout the long process of democratic transition in Indonesia, CSOs played the leading role in various areas, such as improving the public awareness on political rights, civil liberties and serving as a watchdog on government’s activities. Mainly, CSOs serving as the main players in creating a vibrant civil society, upgrade themselves first to be active in terms of strategies, for instance; how to deal with the state institutions and to develop effective means for change. Thus, this paper focuses on how to create active and strong CSOs in Myanmar based on the experience of Indonesia. Moreover, it also takes into consideration of external and internal factors for strengthening Myanmar CSOs in transition.