The power to resist: irrigation management transfer in Indonesia

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cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Water Management Instituteen
cg.contributor.crpWater, Land and Ecosystems
cg.coverage.countryIndonesia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ID
cg.coverage.regionSouth-eastern Asia
cg.creator.identifierDiana Suhardiman: 0000-0001-7892-4148
cg.identifier.urlhttps://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol6/v6issue1/197-a6-1-2/fileen
cg.identifier.wlethemeLand and Water Productivity
cg.issue1en
cg.volume6en
dc.contributor.authorSuhardiman, Dianaen
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-13T14:47:13Zen
dc.date.available2014-06-13T14:47:13Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/40235
dc.titleThe power to resist: irrigation management transfer in Indonesiaen
dcterms.abstractIn the last two decades, international donors have promoted Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) as an international remedy to management problems in government irrigation systems in many developing countries. This article analyses the political processes that shape IMT policy formulation and implementation in Indonesia. It links IMT with the issue of bureaucratic reform and argues that its potential to address current problems in government irrigation systems cannot be achieved if the irrigation agency is not convinced about the need for management transfer. IMT's significance cannot be measured only through IMT outcomes and impacts, without linking these with how the irrigation agency perceives the idea of management transfer in the first place, how this perception (re)defines the agency's position in IMT, and how it shapes the agency's action and strategy in the policy formulation and implementation. I illustrate how the irrigation agency contested the idea of management transfer by referring to IMT policy adoption in 1987 and its renewal in 1999. The article concludes that for management transfer to be meaningful it is pertinent that the issue of bureaucratic reform is incorporated into current policy discussions.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationSuhardiman, Diana. 2013. The power to resist: irrigation management transfer in Indonesia. Water Alternatives, 6(1):25-41.en
dcterms.extentp. 25-41en
dcterms.issued2013
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-SA-3.0
dcterms.subjectirrigation managementen
dcterms.subjectprivatizationen
dcterms.subjectbureaucracyen
dcterms.subjectirrigation systemsen
dcterms.subjectwater managementen
dcterms.subjectwater lawen
dcterms.subjectpolicyen
dcterms.subjectwater users associationsen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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