Blog Media and Civil Society Empowering in Indonesia

Blog is a new media in IT era. Everybody can make blog as to communication and to distribute his/her ideas. Blog also a tool to do civil society empowering process. The presenting of blog is a sign which living in citizen journalism era. Whoever them, actually they are owner, reporter, writer and also marketer for their products.
The equality of relationship between state and people is a final target of civil society empowering process. The state needs strong people. It will give opportunity in defends to face some distresses in the future. There are four stages to build strong civil society. First is defend stage. Second is emergent stage. Third is mobilizational stage and fourth is institutional.
Indonesia has been learning to become the third biggest democracy country since 1998. The best democracy is also required the growth of good civil society. In this article I discribe that there are three patterns of relationship between state and civil society: state centris, civil society centris and the equality relationship.