Research Article
Building Hydraulic Villages in Gunungsewu Karst Area of Gunungkidul: The Expectation and Reality
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.9-11-2022.2329421, author={Irsyad Martias}, title={Building Hydraulic Villages in Gunungsewu Karst Area of Gunungkidul: The Expectation and Reality}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 2nd International Seminar on Cultural Sciences of Brawijaya, ISCS 2022, 9--10 November 2022, Malang, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ISCS}, year={2023}, month={6}, keywords={water scarcity water development program karst}, doi={10.4108/eai.9-11-2022.2329421} }- Irsyad Martias
Year: 2023
Building Hydraulic Villages in Gunungsewu Karst Area of Gunungkidul: The Expectation and Reality
ISCS
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.9-11-2022.2329421
Abstract
The karst landscape of Gunungkidul of Gunungsewu, Java, portrays a rural area with water scarcity problems. The Indonesian Government has initiated Water Development Programs (WDP) since the late 1990s by building piped water networks that mobilize water from underground rivers. However, today, this problem still occurs. Previous studies have shown that hydrological problems of the nature of the karst cause water scarcity in the karst region. Taking different perspectives by borrowing the "hydraulic city" proposed by Anand, casting it to become “hydraulic village” and the politic of governmentality as theoretical lenses, this paper aims to investigate why the WDP has failed to overcome water scarcity problems. First, the WDP has failed to see the human-water-nature relation as an ecological unit of the karst landscape. Second, at the local level, the PDAM also has failed to increase its capacity to be a good governance institution.