Posted by: sethykun on: June 28, 2009
The lack of trust and state of intimacy among people in the rural areas, due partly to the civil war, hinders the set-up of self-help groups or any kind of association in Cambodia. For example, my village (my homeland, Chong Beung Knong) is said to consist of various people (Pro Chea Chun Tmey) from different original birthplace after Pol Pot regime. Noticely, we rarely found the local people joining Ton Tin groups. It is such a kind of individualistic social structure which undermine the rural collective power. This problem leads to the disruption of agricultural and financial or even community development in Cambodia. If someone can study more clearly about this social structure of intimacy and relationship for the whole country, it will help a lot!