Bureaucracy and Development: Reflections from the Indonesian Water Sector

Diana Suhardiman

Published by ISEAS Publishing 2014

Bureaucracy and Development

Reflections from the Indonesian Water Sector

Diana Suhardiman

https://doi.org/10.1355/9789814459716

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The fall of the New Order government in 1998 and the political reform that followed posed substantial challenges for Indonesia's bureaucracy to continue fulfilling its mandate. This book analyses the process of bureaucratic reform in the irrigation sector. Using Irrigation Management Transfer policy as the entry point for analysis, it documents and analyses the irrigation bureaucracy’s ability to sustain its power and prominence in the sector’s development, amidst and against national and international pressures for reform. The book argues that bureaucratic reform in the irrigation sector, rather than attempting to change the bureaucracy's functioning in the image of national and global (good) governance perspectives and priorities, should instead focus on linking the irrigation bureaucracy's everyday practice more effectively with farmers’ needs and aspirations. Reform efforts of the past decades show that Indonesia’s irrigation sector development cannot be redirected without the irrigation bureaucracy’s knowledge, experience and cooperation, and without strengthening its downward accountability to farmer-irrigators.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
LIST OF FIGURES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
LIST OF TABLES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
GLOSSARY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Indonesian State in Transition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
3. The Irrigation Agency’s Contested Bureaucratic Identity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
4. IMT in Indonesia: A Changing Policy Game Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
5. The Struggle on the Principles of IMT under the WATSAL Programme Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
6. Regional Governments and IMT Policies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
7. IMT and Water Distribution Practices in the Kulon Progo District Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
8. Conclusions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
REFERENCES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280

Language: English
Publisher: ISEAS Publishing
Pages
- Main content: 294

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Published: December 26, 2014
ISBN: 9789814459716