Sci&Tech History

Indonesia has a long history in farming. Since the New Order government has launched policy on rice self-sufficient or sometimes called green revolution, social-technique-politic elements has entered farmer daily life. According to Loekman Soetrisno, the green revolution has succeed to change farmer culture from anti-technology into open to technology, but is also raised a new problems for the farmer. The problems for example are dependency on superior kernel—which is uniform—has stimulated the farmer to leave their local kernel, food plantation sub-sector become fragile from plant disease, the farmer become dumb by forgetting their local knowledge and dependent their knowledge from the agricultural technology package that introduced by the industry (Noertjahyo, 2005:23).
Similar, S. Indro Tjahjono said that the appearance of village apparatus such as LKMD, LMD, KUD, and Babinsa has made a mystification, disinformation, and brain washing in order that the farmer change their way of farming. As an entry point, the apparatus introduce new commodities and way of farming which focused to increase agricultural input, such as kernel, fertilizer, pesticide, herbicide, etc from multi national corporation which owned by urban people. This new way of farming beside not environment friendly, also create dependency and designed as an instrument to exploit the grass root (Tjahjono, 1996).

Popularity: 34%