The reflection of public interest in policy making is absolutely needed because there is no any system
or mechanism to guarantee the apparatus integrity and quality yet. Using qualitative method and
meta-systesis analysis, this article have elaborated character of public in Indonesia in public
participation, the mechanism and the successful conditions of public participation. Three kinds of
research have been used as meta-syntesis objects and this research has concluded that there are
seven conditions of successful public participation such us the existence of intellectual organic
actor; participation media; media literated society; the role of three other actors such as tecnocrat,
bereucrat and public; legal saction, and government guaran tee for suswptible groups.
