Abstract :
At the interface between technology and society, controversy has come to be expected, but this need not be the case. During 1976, Indonesia ¿ the fifth largest country in the world ¿ bought a communications system. With it, more than 100 million people for whom even telephones have been a rarity were given access not only to telephony, but also to radio and television ¿ and, in turn, to educational and health-care services never before available, particularly in remote areas.
