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Abstract. Silicon Oil, which is commonly used in vitreoretinal surgery, is known as Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). Silicone oil is used as a substitute for vitreous humor in vitreoretinal surgery. Silicone oil is needed in Indonesia and must be produced with sufficient quality and quantity for domestic needs, currently vitroretinal surgery still uses silicone oil imported from abroad. In this study, PDMS has been synthesized using an addition polymerization process with a polymerization chain growth mechanism, with the monomer octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane, the initiator of Pottasium Hidroxida and the hexamethyldisiloxane chain terminator. The duration of mixing varied from 20 minutes, 30 minutes and 40 minutes, to study the effect of time on PDMS characteristics. The PDMS synthesis we produce is between 65.30% and 86.71% with various viscosities in the range of 900 m.Pa.s and 5000 m.Pa.s. FTIR spectroscopic measurements were found that all synthesized samples were found to have functional groups and structures similar to commercial silicon oil. UV-Vis and refractometer measurements, all samples have transmittance close to 100% and refractive index between 1.3589 and 1.4059. The effect of the length of time on the PDMS gel is on the viscosity the longer the mixing time the higher the viscosity, this mixing occurs at 170oC, stirred using a magnetic stirrer with 300rpm and the concentration of 1M Pottasium Hydroxide. In this study the propagation stage to form a gel began to form in 20 minutes.