Informal Organization: a New Dimension of a Social Development Concept to Steer Public Policy

Abstract

This article presents the current public sphere which has been filled with hopes of the citizens demanding their government to meet society’s aspiration. However, the mechanism of a formal public sphere can be too complex to meet the citizen’s needs in a timely fashion. This study, therefore, explores whether informal organizations can be served as an intervention to supplement an unsatisfactory formal mechanism and whether they can be part of a citizenship development process to steer public policy by participatory democracy.