THE DYNAMIC CHANGE OF WATER GOVERNANCE: PRACTICES OF ASSEMBLAGE

• Main Author: Burhanudin, Muhamad
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/67705
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Efforts to control, manage, and regulate the use of water have been going since the beginning of human life assembling and settling. However, integrated water resources governance only began to be formulated around the middle of the 20th century. In general, integrated governance faces challenges, ranging from physical and climatic, economic, social, to cultural factors. Mutual relationships within these factors are formed and affects each other, resulting in complexities that are difficult to be governed. Lots of structural approaches to water resource governance research focus only on the design that derives from collective decisions, paying less attention to the dynamic processes of governance formation that resulted from possibly disparate and interrelated actions. By utilizing the method of assemblage practices with the Citarum Watershed case study, this study attempts to examine the dynamic process of water resources governance over the last 12 years. The study found a range of relationships between actors involved, both those who are elected in formal structures and those who are informally involved. The ranging relationships include discourse, knowledge framework, regulations, and interests, that have affected the ways actors acting. In this case, some actors found to have experience disassemble, which is caused by the disagreement about approach used between them. Having said that, the new assemblage formed by the actors as affected by the existence of presidential-level regulation. This means that an assemblage may be separated from each other, but the governance of Citarum watershed shows continuity between assemblages to achieve the same goal over time, namely the improvement and preservation of the watershed.