This study focuses on the power and influence of mass media in relation to the modernity in Indonesia. Some of the key media theories are related to issues of modernity and nationalism in Indonesia. The description of historical facts always contains an inherent bias with technologies related to the use of media-related time or space. Both are based on the political and economical interest. Some of the strategies in the discourse and praxis of nationalism in the form of pragmatic interests, consensus can not be realized then what happens is done in a way compromises tolerate arguments and ethical-political beliefs and find a balance. actual mass media as a new technology can strengthen and pasting various elements of the nation that can be imagined through the messages of national language and strengthen nationalism. Both became major elements of discourse in producing the realization of integration and political legitimacy in the context of the Unitary Republic of Indonesia (NKRI).