RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ABILITY OF VILLAGE GOVERNMENTS IN ADAPTIVE WATER MANAGEMENT AND WATER SERVICE PERFORMANCE (Case Study: Villages in Parongpong Subdistrict)

• Main Author: Ramadhani, Bungaria
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/40575
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Indonesia has a variety of uncertainties both technically and non-technically. The availability of water in several urban areas is getting less and in line with the increasing needs of the community, but drought can occur in other areas. In addition, the complexity of water management itself makes the management of existing water not optimal, which is often caused by a lack of stakeholder governance capabilities, a large number of stakeholder hierarchies that need to collaborate, and/or overlapping of water management. The regional government as the party responsible for providing water infrastructure is sometimes still unable to manage, especially the village government. To deal with the challenges of uncertainty, an adaptive water management approach emerged. In this study, we will focus on examining adaptive water management in terms of non-technical uncertainty by assessing the capacity of the village government's adaptive water management in Parongpong Subdistrict. Assessment will be carried out by scoring methods from seven categories consisting of (1) government management, (2) policy development, (3) regional cooperation, (4) information management, (5) education and awareness, (6) technical, and (7) financing and overall there are 14 criteria and indicators consisting of bottom-up government management, long-term plans, policy implementation, inter-sectoral collaboration, collaboration between administrative levels, cross-border administrative cooperation, uncertainty information sharing, information/data exchange with other governments, transfer of knowledge to water managers, water education in schools, public awareness, diversity of community-scale infrastructure, funding sources, and flexibility in funding support for policy changes. Based on the analysis that has been carried out by adjusting existing water management to the criteria for adaptive water management, none of the seven villages in Parongpong Subdistrict have met the criteria for adaptive water management, although some have gone towards efforts to approach adaptive water management. Furthermore, it will be connected with the water service performance using Spearman Rho correlation analysis and the coefficient results obtained at 0.252, which means that the relationship between the ability of adaptive water governance and the water service performance is weak to low. Based on this study it can be concluded that there is no relationship between the ability of adaptive water management and the water service performance in Parongpong Subdistrict. When juxtaposed between the level of adaptive water management capability and the level of water service performance, there are villages where the ability of adaptive water management is high but the water service performance is actually still minimal. Whereas villages with the water service performance have almost covered all service targets, in fact, have low adaptive water management capabilities. The unrelated correlation is proven by the results of the correlation coefficient which is indeed weak to low. The adaptive water management approach itself does appear in countries with a well-equipped water infrastructure, but in the case of Indonesia to improved governance capabilities towards adaptive water management can be done if the water infrastructure is already built and the water service performance is good.