Abstract

Since the last two decades, Indonesia has been performed decentralization for managing water resources. However, some problems related to water management still exist such as flood, drought, and ego sectoral among stakeholders. Cisadane river basin was used as a study area due to this river basin is one of the national strategic river basin and faced the fastest growing population and land conversion function in Indonesia. Using Grindle model (1980), we analyzed the performance of the policy and figure out its supporting and constraining factors. As a result, in general, implementation of decentralized water resources management based on “Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM)” principles at Cisadane river basin has been running well. Nevertheless, some problems related communication among stakeholders, public participation, and limited resources are the main issues of decentralized water resources management in Indonesia and can hamper the policy to reach its goals.

Highlights

  • The policy of decentralization has been a trend of many countries over the last few decades after previous centralization policy dominated

  • The lowest level of water resources management in Indonesia is a river territory manage by central government through River Territory Agency (Balai Besar Wilayah Sungai), by Provincial, District and Municipality government through its Water Resources Agency

  • This research focused on analysing how decentralisation of water resources management based on integrated water resource management principles in Indonesia had run

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Introduction

The policy of decentralization has been a trend of many countries over the last few decades after previous centralization policy dominated. Decentralization is granting the authority and responsibility of handling public functions from the central government to local governments. The main reason they changed fromcentralized system to decentralized system is due to the central government failed to provide appropriate public services for the people. The government implements the uniformity of treatment for each region. This "one size fits all" policy did not accommodate the uniqueness of each area in a country, that policy model cannot reflect the local needs (Oates, 1972). Other scholars, Bird and Vaillancourt (1998) argued that decentralization policy had become a popular policy because the policy model promises: economic efficiency, program cost effectiveness, accountability, increased resource mobilization, reduced disparities, increased political participation, strengthening democracy and political stability

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