Sigit S. Arif - Department of Agricultural Engineering, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Erwin T. Sigit - Head of Irrigation Development Project, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia
Murtiningrum - Department of Agricultural Engineering, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Judy Kurniawan - Department of Agricultural Engineering, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Following the Reform Program started at 1998, the Government of Republic Indonesia issued the presidential decree on Irrigation Management Policy Reform. This decree is considered as the first step to have good irrigation governance in the country. The reform is expected to change the top-down approach applied in the past to the irrigation management with characteristics of efficient, effective, democratic, participatory, transparent and accountable. The new water law and government regulation on irrigation management issued following the policy reform stated in one of their article that the Asset Management Plan (AMP) should be implemented in the country. The AMP in Indonesia has started since 1995 when The Institute of Irrigation Studies, Southampton University, UK, Gadjah Mada University and the Yogyakarta Irrigation Development Project introduced the AMP program for irrigation infrastructure. Subsequently, in the fiscal year 2000, the World Bank supported application of AMP in all provinces in Java. Unfortunately, up to today, only two provinces, i.e. Yogyakarta and East Java are still consistent in implementing the AMP, although they faced some constraints. During its implementation, the university conducted the training program and provided computer software while the Provincial Irrigation Project supported the implementation fund. This paper aims to discuss implementation of AMP in Yogyakarta Special Region. Recently about to a dozen of irrigation schemes in Yogyakarta Special Region have implemented the AMP program. Some positive responds came from farmers and the bureaucracy in both the lowest management (field level) and the top management (province and central government). However, the middle management bureaucracy (regency level) is still worried and pessimistic to implement the program. One reason was due to lacking and unclear opportunity to have enough operation and maintenance fund as a part of future investment of irrigation management in regency government level.

Asset Management, Policy Reform on O&M, Yogyakarta