TNI Accelerative Communication in Mitigation the Citarum River Environment in West Java

This research examines Indonesian Military Forces (Tentara Nasional Indonesia (TNI)) accelerative communication in mitigation to the Citarum River environment in West Java. Citarum is initially called by the World Ban as the dirtiest river in the world. [1]. Now, some sections of the Citarum area are tourism destinations. Such condition exists by TNI’s contribution as the leading guard for the Citarum Harum national project. Whereas theories and concepts applied to this research include organizational communication theory, development social communication, accelerative communication, and environmental mitigation concept, especially for river. Method applied to this research is case study. Case study is classified as descriptive analysis research. It is a kind of research focusing on specific case for observation and analysis in precise and thorough way. The research is conducted in intensive, detailed, and deep way against specific organization, institution, and symptom with narrow area or object. Data is collected through observation and depth interview with source persons, namely members of TNI running activities for Citarum Harum in Bandung and its surrounding area. The research results describe that accelerative communication is developed based on group interpersonal communication competence as a basis for building public participation for achieving Citarum Harum.