Abstract
The Brantas River Basin has been developed under a stage-wise approach, with an evolving institutional set-up that has paved the path for the continuous development of water resources potentials within the basin. Following the maxim of ‘One river, One plan, One management’, the basin has profited from consistent steps of development, initially under the Brantas Project, into a service-based river basin organisation, namely Jasa Tirta I Public Corporation (PJT-I), established in 1990 and based on the principle of cost recovery. Capacity development in the basin is driven by challenges and has been reformulated several times to meet these challenges. During the development stage, the Brantas Project not only built the dam and other infrastructures, but also helped to establish the designer, planners and technicians for dam development in Indonesia. Nowadays, the sustainability of PJT-I depends on the trust of the Government and the satisfaction of the users who receive the services rendered. Key success factors of capacity development are strong leadership, incentive schemes and, most importantly, the spirit of innovation, the willingness to learn and the eagerness to take on new challenges.
Highlights
The notion of capacity development is normally associated with the capabilities of individuals, organisations and society to perform their functions
Capacity development programmes are more successful and more likely to be sustainable when they respond to internal initiative and when they are approached in a process-oriented manner rather than as single, one-time event (Land, 2000)
As measured in gross domestic product (GDP), data from the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) show that the gross regional domestic product (GRDP) of the Brantas River Basin in 2003 amounted to IDR (Indonesian Rupiah) 150,630 billion, which accounted for 59% of GRDP in East Java and 8% of the national GDP
Summary
The notion of capacity development is normally associated with the capabilities of individuals, organisations and society to perform their functions. The need for capacity development depends on the dynamic challenges that have to be undertaken by the organisation Efficient and sustainable the capacity development initiatives are depends on the commitment and consistency of management and employees to develop, strengthen and maintain the appropriate organisational culture and behaviours that support the capacity development initiatives. This paper describes and discusses the performance of the Brantas River Basin Development Project It looks at the implementation of water resources development in the basin, the leadership and the corps d’espirit (the Brantas Spirit) as key success factors in capacity development during the Brantas River Basin development phase (1961–1990), and at the adoption of the key success factors of capacity development in the water resources management period, under PJT-I from 1991 up to now, gaining the trust of the Government and the satisfaction of users as the modalities to move the organisation forward to the level
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