AGENDA PEMBANGUNAN PLTN DAN PENCAPAIAN KETAHANAN LISTRIK

AbstractsPolicy agenda-setting process for the development of nuclear power generation (PLTN), a process which had ever got a strong political endorsement during the preceeding government, has not indicated any significant change. A strong political issue driven by social oppositions arising both from the potential sites of the generation and the people at large, academicians, anti-nuclear movements and small part of the main related stakeholders have indicated that the agenda-setting process into a formal decision remains uncertain. Nevertheless, for the sake of achieving national power security, the development of PLTN agenda remains to be a rational policy in the long run. The government initial efforts to design a roadmap for the national nuclear development indicates that the agenda-setting process will get a more significant support. By using qualitative method and with the focus on the primary and secondary data conducted in the Jepara District, Central Java Province and Pangkal Pinang District, Babel Province, this study aims to to see the dynamic picture of the agenda-setting process for and the feasibility of the PLTN development in the framework for sustaining the power security in the medium and long run. The study shows that (1) the agenda-setting process for the PLTN development has not indicated a strong political will from the government due to limited supports from the public and regional governments, and (2) the feasibility of the PLTN development however remains to become a rational policy option in the long run for sustaining the power security nationally. It is therefore, once the agenda-setting process has come to a formal policy conclusion, the government has to manage serious challenges for its implementation.