BUDAYA PEMANFAATAN TEKNOLOGIDAN ENERGI NUKLIR DI INDONESIA(Tlte Social and Culture Aspects ofTeclmology Usageand Nuclear Energy in Indonesia). The usage of knowledge and technology in the modern era i!>' a must that can not bebargained. Without any understanding of knowledge and tethnology, we would bedeclined and failed in global competition, even more suffer as a poor and powerlessqountry. The prosperity is main goal to be achieved through development process,therefore the understanding of knowledge and technology become a strategic way to bedone. How is the effect of knowledge and technology implementation to the social andcultural change, how far is the society understanding aboutnucle'ar. knowledge andtechnology as solution of alternative energy related to the social and. culturatconditionneed to be researched.' Modernization isa form of proper, well planed, and sustainsocial and cultural change. Nuclear knowledge and. technology. a.s a' part ofmodernization, to put' in the norms and society cultures,it needs' the change processwhich happens through evolution, diffusion and cultural aculturation. The culturalvalue of "gotong-royong". Fairness :and self stClnding irinuclear knowledge andtechnology implementation need to be developed through education, religion, massmedia, economics, politics, governmem and also society self emporverment Thecultural values enlightment movement in nuclear knowledge and technologyimpelementdtion must become a reformation movement in the sustainable culturalvalue changes.Prof. Dr. Ir. Sugiyanto, MS.; Ketua Program Studi Ilmu Koinunikasi Program Ilmu Sosial Universitas Brawijaya Malang
