Tobias is a young German who came to Malaysia to experience the work of civil society organisations. If he is not out for traveling through South East Asia he might be focused on improving his guitar skills. Tobias has a B.A. in political science and is now doing his master studies in ‘Empirical Research in Democracy’ at Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany. Here, his focus is mainly on political theory, democracy promotion and democracy consolidation.