Indonesia society with its multilayered heterogenities based on multiplicity of racial and ethnic group, different religion, conflicting classes and political ideologist that intersect at various level in the context of an ‘unfinished’ nationhood and statehood, does not make a clear-cut empirical case study of a ‘positive’ civil society (Seda 2004:30). Power and fiscal desentralisation in North Sumatera on one side does not followed by powerfull controling by agencies structures such as civil society and community organization (ormas) as well as academia at the other side. For some degree, religious community organisation (ormas keagamaan) even contributes to religious tension since each of these organisations try to persuade and influence the local elites to get more financial gain from Bansos (local budget or APBD). In this regard, the elites impelement diametrical majority-minority power relation among religious community organisation. A few of independent university organizations such as HMI, GMNI, and PMII which try to raise the voice of the voiceless almost hopeless since they were battled by paramilitary organisation backed up by local business and local elites.

Keywords: Decentralisation, Religious Community Organisation, Cvil Society, Primordialism, Mayority-Minority.