In this study, the people's participation in community development activities is viewed as a process by which individuals are involved in initiating, deciding, planning, implementing and managing the group and its activities. It is also a process of social development in which people, as subjects in their own environment, seek out ways to meet their collective needs and expectations and to overcome their common problems. In pursuing this collective action, the self-help and mutual-help spirit that underlies the Asian traditional community spirit of
working, helped to hasten the achievement of these shared interests through group-based-activities. Thus, by understanding this collective action in which members participate, it is possible to comprehend the dynamic aspect of the group process within which participation took place.