Cultural factors affecting the rural development interface of Thai bureaucrats and Thai Muslim villagers

In: Contemporary Southeast Asia, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 1-12

Abstract

The extent to which cultural factors (language difference, which hinders oral communication between the bureaucrats and the villagers, bureaucratic attitudes, behaviour and the lack of cultural awareness with respect to the villagers and religion as an obstacle to secular education) affect the efforts of Thai officials, most of whom are Buddhists, to undertake rural development activities in areas where the population is overwhelmingly Muslim is demonstrated. (DÜI-Sen)