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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787352703321

Autore

Suhardiman Diana <1973->

Titolo

Bureaucracy and development : reflections from the Indonesian water sector / / Diana Suhardiman [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, , 2015

ISBN

981-4459-71-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 281 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

333.9131509598

Soggetti

Irrigation - Government policy - Indonesia

Irrigation - Indonesia - Management

Water - Distribution - Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- GLOSSARY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Indonesian State in Transition -- 3. The Irrigation Agency's Contested Bureaucratic Identity -- 4. IMT in Indonesia: A Changing Policy Game -- 5. The Struggle on the Principles of IMT under the WATSAL Programme -- 6. Regional Governments and IMT Policies -- 7. IMT and Water Distribution Practices in the Kulon Progo District -- 8. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sommario/riassunto

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.<br>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.