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Daily News

No. 01 / 11 October 2010
WELCOME TO JOGJA!
Yogyakarta, the Treasure of Java
Yogyakarta (also called as Jogja or Yogya) is located
in the middle of Java Island, and is one of a popular
tourist destination in Indonesia, especially for
cultural tourism. The cultural colour of Yogyakarta is
still obvious because of the temples, traditional
buildings, various cultural activities, and a number of
famous artists. This is accentuated by the presence
of living tradition and everyday life of Yogyakarta
community which is art loving and hospitable.
Walking around Jogja, you can see the wealth of
pristine Javanese culture, the locals who are so
friendly and artists who are making handicraft items.
Yogyakarta is heaven of traveling with so much
charm that has not been revealed. Yogyakarta is
ready to host more visitors who are eager to enjoy
its enchanting nature and culture by providing
tourist facilities, attractions, guides, and other
services. Your visit to Yogyakarta will be welcomed
warmly. Begin your adventures and find the
treasures of Java Island in Yogyakarta.
THE CHALLENGE OF FOOD SECURITY
Food availability is becoming an important issue
worldwide, said Mr. Ali Shady , a former president
ICID conference in Bali 10 years ago. The man who
came to represent Canada, said that there are a
discrepancy between supply and demand for food in
the world today. He said that a country is not only
responsible to provide enough food, but also must
have a sufficient stock of food.
Irrigation became an important thing in relation to
food availability. Currently, only about 17% total
irrigated land in the world and it yield 40% of the
world's food source. "Having a conference about
irrigation and drainage in Asia is a very important
thing, because it has major population in the world,"
he said.
"Irrigation is one of the solution, how to make
irrigation more efficient," he added. The world
population continues to grow, and of course, food
needs are also increasing. They want more and
better food. So we need more water and more land.
In this conference, many people came from different
countries and backgrounds. They also come with
different experiences from their own countries. On
this occasion they can discuss, working on group and
exchange ideas about problems and solutions in
their respective countries.
"It will help us to know better and apply it in our
own country" he said. According to the man who is
originally an Egyptian, the key is to exchange
information. Two of the most important thing is
information and knowledge. With the information
we could know something, but with the knowledge
we can apply it directly in our real life into something
useful.
Ali Shady
Daily News ICID Jogyakarta - 1
Fuzzy Timer Technique
Implementation for Automatic
Water Level Control
A fuzzy timer control (FTC) technique was developed
for application in water level control. FTC is the
modification of the general fuzzy logic control (FLC)
which have been widely known and been applied in
various control systems. The FTC was applied in
simulation using water balance analysis of weather,
evapotranspiration and land condition information.
FTC showed good performance in the anticipation of
water level fluctuation to maintain water level near
the setpoint, but faced difficulty in heavy rainfall
event especially in heavy rain season. During dry
season, the FTC showed better performance and
ability to maintain water level near the desired level.
The simulation was conducted using spreadsheet
programmed with macro basic language. The
simulation also gave the irrigation and drainage
capacity of 1.3 lt/sec.ha for rainy season and1.6
lt/sec.ha for dry season, with each performance
index of 11871.5 and 4225.4, which values are the
results of optimization during the simulation.
Satyanto K.Saptomo, Budi I. Setiawan,
Ahmad Tusi, Marzan A.Iskandar
ESTUARY DYNAMICS OF JAKARTA
BAY
The 3D-numerical model has been applied to
simulate estuary dynamics of Jakarta Bay, Indonesia
include of tidal and river current, and cohesive
sediment ransport. Sediment loads comes from 3
river mouths i.e. Angke River, Karang River, and
Ancol River. The model was simulated to analyze the
effect of tidal current and river discharge. A constant
westerly and easterly wind was used as input of the
model to see the influence of monsoonal season.
The numerical results show that the tidal current
flows from east to western part of the bay during
ebb tide and vice versa during flood tide. The surface
current circulation is dominantly influenced by the
tidal current compared with the wind and river
discharge effects. High turbidity level was found near
the river mouths with the range of 50 to 100 mg/l.
This high sediment concentration was caused by the
effect of sediment load from the river upstream. In
the offshore area of the bay the sediment
concentration decreases up to 10 mg/l. The
distribution of sediments follows the current
circulations induced by tide and river discharge.
Fitri Riandin
INTERMITTENT IRRIGATION IN SYSTEM
OF RICE INTESIFICATION POTENTIAL AS
AN ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION
OPTION OF NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF RICE
CULTIVATION IN IRRIGATED PADDY
FIELD
Water availability that nowadays tends to decrease
in quality and quantity aspects is in fact in contrary
with the trend of increasing demand for water.
Therefore the effort to improve water use efficiency
is necessary in every aspect of life including irrigation
to support agriculture, especially for paddy
cultivation. Indonesia as an agricultural country has
7,49 million hectare (ha) irrigated paddy field. By
means of continuous flow irrigation method, 141
billion m3 of water is needed for irrigation during 2
planting period every year or almost 6% of water
availability in Indonesia. On the other hand, one of
the environmental issues related to agriculture
production particularly rice is that paddy cultivation
become potential contributor to global warming
through methane emission. Intermittent irrigation
of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) has a potential
to overcome this problem. For this reason research
has been conducted for four years in various
implementation stages, starting from pot, field, onfarm, and tertiary unit. Water inflow-outflow,
climate and methane emission data were collected
in each scope for several cropping season. The result
shows that intermittent irrigation of SRI has a
consistent trend to have lower water requirement
and lower methane emission as it is compared with
conventional method using continuous flow
irrigation. Water requirement was reduced by 36%
in on-farm research and 15-33 % lower in a tertiary
unit research. Methane emission was lower by
37.5% and global warming potential was lower by
5.7%.
Susi Hidayah, Dewi Arifianty Agustina,
Marasi Deon Joubert, Soekrasno
500.000 HECTARES ARE WAITING TO
BE IRRIGATED IN NEPAL
Coming from the Ministry of Irrigation, Mr.
Mathura Dangol is one of the delegations from
his country, Nepal. Actually this is the first time
he joined ICID conference. He came with two
other friends from Nepal, and they are from the
department of irrigation. He said that he wants
to learn a lot of things about irrigation and
drainage, because he thoughts that his own
country needs to develop more about irrigation
system.
Nepal totally had 2,6 million hectares of land,
and 1.760.000 hectares are irrigable. By this
year, they had 1,2 million hectares of irrigated
land, and the challenge they had to face now is
there are still 500.000 hectares of lands remain
that haven’t being irrigated.
What’s the problem in the country is the
financial. They need a lot of money to develop
their irrigation system, and now people in Nepal
just take a loan from the bank as the solution
for the financial problems. “We also want to see
the Sabo Dam Merapi, “ he said. He also said
that Jogja is a very nice place.
Mathura Dangol
EVALUATION OF CROP COEFFICIENTS
FROM WATER CONSUMPTION IN
PADDY FIELDS
Crop coefficient was evaluated from water
consumption of various treated paddy fields on the
objective to find its changes with time as the plant
grew. Three principal techniques of paddy fields
known as the commonly practiced, Integrated Crop
Management (ICM) and System of Rice
Intensification (SRI) were investigated. Each of them
has 2 major different irrigating and planting
patterns, which has different performance on plant
growth as well as productivity. In this study, the
combinations of irrigating and planting patterns
across these 3 systems were also investigated, and
in total there were 36 treatments. Measurements
were conducted on daily basis in water level, soil
water, draining water, ponding water, irrigation
water, and weather parameters such as
temperature, wind velocity and sunshine duration to
calculate potential evapotranspiration by means of
FAO Penmann Monteith model.
Water balance analysis was carried out to calculate
equivalent depth of soil water, which was then
compared with measured soil water based on water
level data and
soil water retention curve.
Optimization process was then conducted to find
daily crop coefficients with the objective to minimize
a cumulative different between calculated and
measured soil water depths. The results show that
each reatment produced different temporal crop
coefficients but more or less had similar patterns in
the early, middle and late stages of the plant
growth. In consequence, temporal crop coefficient is
important to take into account for irrigation planning
on different system of paddy field especially to earn
optimum water efficiency.
Hanhan A. Sofiyuddin, Lolly M. Martief,
Budi I. Setiawan, Chusnul Arif
Prambanan, the Most Beautiful
Hindu Temple in the World
Reputated as the biggest and most beautiful Hindhus
Temple in Indonesia, and locally known as Roro
Jonggrang. Prambanan is the masterpiece of Hindu
culture from the 10th century. The slender building
is towering 47 meters high making it an unsurpassed
beautiful architectural. Prambanan temple has three
main temples in the primary yard, namely Vishnu,
Brahma, and Shiva. The three temples are a symbol
of Trimurti in Hindu belief. All of them face east.
Each main temple has accompanying temple facing
to the west, namely Nandini for Shiva, Angsa to
Brahma, and Garuda for Vishnu.
Borobudur, the Biggest Buddhist
Temple in the 9th Century
Malioboro, Nostalgia of Souvenirs
Paradise
Extends over the imaginary axis connecting the
Sultan's palace, Tugu monument and the peak of
Mount Merapi, this street is formed into a trading
locality after Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono I
developed it as a traditional market since 1758. Until
now, Malioboro still survive as a trade area and even
is one of Yogyakarta's famous icons.
Who does not know Borobudur? Borobudur is the
largest Buddhist temple from the 9th century. It is
located in Magelang, Central Java, just about an hour
from Yogyakarta. This Buddhist temple has 1460
relief and 504 Buddha statues in the complex. Not
surprisingly, millions of people yearning to visit this
magnificent building, for the architectural and
function as a place of worship, Borobudur is really
attractive.
All relief panels in Borobudur temple reflect the
Buddha's teachings. The relief panels tell the
legendary story of Ramayana. In addition, there are
relief panels describing the condition of society at
that time.
Ratu Boko Palace, the Splendor on a
peaceful hill
Ratu Boko Palace is a magnificent palace complex
built in the 8th century during the reign of Rakai
Panangkaran, one of the descendants of Wangsa
dynasty which is also a founder of Borobudur
temple.
The palace was originally named Abhayagiri Vihara
(meaning monastery) was built for seclusion and to
focus on spiritual life. Being in this palace, you can
feel the peace as well as see the sights of Yogyakarta
city and Prambanan Temple with the background of
Mount Merapi.
Down the road about one kilometer would be very
tiring, but stories and memories of old buildings and
a sprinkling of souvenir will treat it. Enjoy the
experience of shopping and souvenir hunting;
tourists can walk along the shoulder of the road
which is an arcade. Here you will find many vendors
that sell merchandise.
Ranging from local handicrafts such as batik, rattan
ornament, leather puppets, bamboo crafts (key
chains, decorative lamps, etc.) also blangkon
(Javanese / Yogyakarta hat typical) and silver goods,
to merchants who sell a lot of knick knacks.
Throughout the arcade, beside the tourists can shop
in peace in a sunny or rainy conditions, they can also
enjoy a pleasant shopping experience at bargain
prices. If we’re lucky, it can be reduced for a third or
even half price.
Affandi Museum, Visiting the Palace
of the Maestro
Affandi Museum is all part of Affandi's life as a
painting maestro. In the region of Gajah Wong
River’s edge, Affandi lived, worked, transforming his
knowledge and lived in his eternal home. Visiting
Affandi Museum which is located at Jalan Raya
Yogyakarta-Solo, just in the west of Gajah Wong
River, will provide you an opportunity to track all the
means of Affandi's life.
In a museum that consists of 3 galleries you can see
the great works of the maestro during his life, the
works of other painters, the transportation he used
first, occupied house until a studio that is now used
to nurture talent to paint for children.
In the olden time. Sri Sultan used to concentrate his
mind along this axis before leading a meeting or
giving orders to his people. Each part of the building
has its own name. The palace meeting hall is called
Pagelaran. It is the place where formal meeting of
the Palace officials are held.
Manguntur Tangkil Hall is the place where the Sultan
has his seat. This hall lies in the Siti Hinggil. Siti
means ground and Hinggil means high. It is named so
because the place where it was built is higher than
any other ground around it. It was once a tiny island
on the swamp.
To visit the Museum Affandi, you only need to pay
Rp 10.000,00 as an entrance ticket for domestic
tourists and Rp 20.000,00 for foreign tourists, as well
as additional Rp 10,000.00 as an additional cost if
you want to take pictures.
NGAYOGYOKARTO HADININGRAT,
THE SULTAN’S PALACE
The front gate is called Danapratopo. It is guarded by
two giant statues called Gupala. One is called
Cingkorobolo and the other is Boloupoto. The two
statues are supposed to protect the palace from any
harm or evil. The main part of the building is called
Purworetno, there are two storeys buildings called
Panti Sumbaga. This building is the Sultan's private
library. The building where the Sultan live is called
Gedong Kuning.
The visitor of the palace can enjoy the Atmosphere
of the Kraton as it was some centuries ago. Wedding
ceremonies, palace meeting which is often held with
puppet shows to create such an atmosphere. Many
sets of gamelan music instruments, antiques, and
heirlooms make the palace of Yogyakarta the most
interesting tourist attractions in Yogyakarta. The
palace of NgayogyokartoHadiningrat is now the
dwelling place of Sultan Hamengku Buwono X and
the family.
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The palace building, with its grand and elegant
Javanese architecture, lies in the centre of the city. It
was founded by Pangeran Mangkubumi in 1755. The
Prince was then called Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono
I. He chose the right place for the site of the building,
right between Winongo and Code river, a swamp
area that dried up then. The Palace building
stretches from north to south.
The front yard of the palace is called alun-alun Utara
(North Square) and the back yard called alun-alun
Selatan (South Square).The design of the building
shows that the palace, the obelisk (The Tugu, the
column), and Mount Merapi lie in one line. It is
believed that the axis is sacred.
PARTICIPANT ATTENDANCE INFO
By the first day of registration for ICID participants,
there are 150 participants from 30 countries who
had registered in Sheraton Mustika Resort&Spa
Yogyakarta. Some of them are the delegations of
Nepal, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Canada, Iran,
Turkey and South Africa. Totally, there are about 475
participant who had registered by on line
registration, and they are targeted would arrive to
Jogja by tomorrow as the first day of Working on
groups will be held.
REDISCOVER THE LEGEND OF RORO
JONGGRANG
(Special Appearance of Miss Universe
2010)
The figure is excluding the “go-show” participant
which is approximately about 10% of the total
participants. And the committee is predicting that on
Thursday, the participants who join this event will
increase to be 700 participants.
Emir Faridz
RAMAYANA BALLET PERFORMANCE
AT PURAWISATA
Ramayana Ballet is a beautiful, enchanting and
unrivalled performance that could combine the
diversity of Javanese arts in forms of dance, drama
and music in one stage that at the same time could
deliver Ramayana story in four stages: Sinta's
abduction, Anoman's mission to Alengka,
Kumbarkana's death and the happy ending when
Rama meets Sinta again. This show has received the
award for making a record of 25 year stripping show
from MURI (Indonesia documentary record
museum).
Time : Every night, 20.00 - 21.30
Venue :
Purawisata
Jl. Brigjen Katamso
After more than a thousand years, the timeless
and mystical legend of Roro Jonggrang is now
brought to life into once a year show at
Prambanan Temple where the legend was born.
This special show will also have special
appearance of Daniel Sahuleka, the Indonesianborn-Dutch singer, Didik Nini Thowok, a multi
talented artist from Jogja, and also Miss
Universe 2010, Jimena Navarette. The show will
be held on October 12, 2010, start from 18.00
through 21.00 in Open Air Hanoman Prambanan
Temple.
Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta
Production Team:
Adolf Tommy Sitompul
Emir Faridz
John P Pantouw
D Fathoni A
Maria Christine Sadipun
No. 02 / 12 October 2010
THE WHOLE WORLD ARE NOW
FACING THE SAME PROBLEM
Maybe the delegation of Taiwan is one of the
biggest groups who attend The 62nd IECM and
the 5th ARC in Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta,
Indonesia. “27 people are attending this
event,” said Mr. Shu Wen Pin, one of the
working on group participants. Talking about
the irrigation and the related things in his own
country, he said that actually now the whole
world is having the same problem. It’s all about
the water resources, water quality, and water
distribution.
He also told that in his own country there are a
lot of competitions with the industry and
commercial institution to get the water for their
own interest. Mr. Shu Wen Pin who involved in
working group on history of irrigation, drainage
and food control came from irrigation
organization in Taiwan called WUA (Water
Users Association). And now they are trying to
make more efficient of water usage, particularly
in their own country.
Shu Wen Pin
“BATIK” IS ALSO PRESENTED IN THE
61ST IECM AND 6TH ARC OF ICID
Organizing an international event in the city of
Yogyakarta will be more complete with the
presence of art and culture from Jogja. Batik as
one of the cultural wealth owned by the
Yogyakarta Special Region, go on display in a
series of events of 61st IECM and 6th ARC of
ICID at the Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta.
Retno Kusumo batik, which is a producer of
batik art and natural batik, for six days ahead,
will be in the ballroom of the Sheraton Mustika
Yogyakarta for displaying various works of batik.
Ranging from traditional to modern batik with
cosmopolitan colors that is so attractive. This
kind of Batik assessed the potential for
international markets. So, this golden
opportunity, they will exhibit, sell its works, and
also to show directly the process of making
batik to the participants.
For the batik that is sold in the exhibition, the
price ranges from 250,000 IDR up to 1,750,000
IDR. According to them the price is very
affordable to target international markets.
Retno Kusumo Batik has a lot of products
ranging from hand write batik, stamp batik and
combination of stamp, handwrite and brush
painting with bright colors (for synthetic colors).
They also make “ready to wear” fashion with
delicate fabrics for man and woman, as well as
serve make to order also suit with our designs.
To make a sheet of Batik, will take a week.
Compare it with a draftman who can earn about
1.000.000 IDR per week. So, we can compare it
again with the batik price above.
From the information from Retno Kusumo
Batik, the oldest Batik writer (Canting) who still
remains in Jogja now is an 80-years-old woman.
She can only make a classical patern of Batik
based on her imagination.
Workshop on Role of Irrigation in
Poverty Alleviation
As the series of workshop that will be held
during the 61st IECM and 6th ARC of ICID,
there would be a workshop on role of
irrigation in poverty alleviation. It will be
held on Wednesday 13 October 2010, start
from 14.00-17.00 in West 1. The workshop
follows a working group meeting starting at
13.30 with four presentations:
two groups that had been merged about two
years ago.
He said that the environment problem
nowadays had to be solved in a systematical
way. Because there are some differences
between the environment condition in the
developing countries and the developed
countries. And the developing countries need
more problems solving for their environment
condition. “The most important thing is
protecting the environment,” he said again.
Each country should have their own way to
protect their environments, because it’s a very
local issue. But through this working groups,
seminar, and workshop, we can disseminate the
information that we have, exchange idea that
we have to other people.
1. “Role of Irrigation in Poverty Alleviation
in India” by R C Jha
2. “Definitions of Poverty” by Prof Linden
Vincent
3. “Multiple Uses of Farm Storages” by
Andre Roux
4. “Employment Opportunities for the
Landless Poor” by Peter Lee
Questions and discussion will be welcome.
Peter Lee
THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT FOR
ENVIRONMENT
Coming from the working group on
environment, Mr. Yamaoka Kazumi from Japan
told the Daily News about the environmental
issues that had been discussed in the working
group. Actually, the main topic or issue is about
the future development of environment.
Originally, working group on environment were
Environment has both negative impact and
positive impact. All we have to do is minimize
the negative impact and maximize the positive
impact for our life. “Although it’s a very local
issue, we should think globally and act locally,”
he added.
Yamaoka Kazumi
BEST SELLER BOOK : WATER SAVING
IN AGRICULTURE
During the first day IECM 61st and 6th ARC of
ICID at the Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta, the
ICID book exhibition has been one of the
interesting things in the series of event. Many
participants from Indonesia as well as from
other country had ordered and bought many
kind of book. But there is a book that today
became a “best seller book”, that is Water
Saving in Agriculture.
As we know, the major challenge facing by
irrigated agriculture today is producing more
food using less water. This book is a compilation
of case studies of successful water saving
experiences, tools and research studies
contributed by ICID WatSave award winners as
well as by selected experts from Australia,
Brazil, China, India, Egypt, South Korea,
Pakistan, South Africa, Spain, Netherland,
Turkmenistan, UK and USA. This publication is a
rich source of information and an inspiration for
all those professionals, policy makers,
researchers and irrigators engaged in producing
more crops per drop all over the world.
The committee said that there are many
participants who were interesting to the book
exhibition. The participants from Indonesia
who have bought the book are mainly from
education institution (lecturers) and from PU.
Ega
him. The major topic which they discussed in
the meetings is a matter of Water & corps. He
said he was more interested to attend the
workshop to be held on Wednesday.
Asked about his impression of the event 61st
IECM and 6th ARC of ICID, he sees so far
everything is good and well-organized. But one
thing he can not stand of Jogja city is the
weather that was very hot. "It's too hot here,"
he said with a laugh. This might be a challenge
as Yogyakarta has been hit by the negative
effects of global warming which is causing the
average temperature each day was so high in
recent years.
Andrew Sanewe
FIRST DAY SURPRISES FOR THE
COMMITTEE
The first day of IECM 61st and 6th ARC of ICID
2010 seemed to be a hard and busy day for Mr.
Eri Gas, the regional committe from Padang
city, Sumatera, Indonesia. But he was so
surprised as he attended the meeting that was
well running. He used to join as well as organize
the regional events. But today, when he arrived
in Jogja, he felt that everything in the
conference was well organized, and he really
appreciated the committee from Jogja and
Jakarta who had organized everything in this
event.
JOGJA IS TOO HOT : A GLOBAL
WARMING CHALLENGE?
Mr. Andrew Sanewe, South African delegation
that came to Yogyakarta with his 11 colleagues
claimed that so far there’s nothing very
interesting on the first day IECM 61st and 6th
ARC of ICID at the Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta.
When interviewed during the coffee break time,
he admitted that he only came as an observer.
But the working group that he had participated
today hadn’t brought any interesting thing to
The committees who are in charge to organize
the book exhibition were so surprised too,
knowing that a lot of participants were so
interested with the book exhibition. “We
thought that today there would be a few
people, but in fact so many people bought and
order the books,” said Ega, a student of Gadjah
Mada University Yogyakarta who was in charge.
“Some of the books had been sold out, and we
don’t have the stock anymore,” he added. No
wonder that many people wanted to buy the
book because in this special occasion, ICID gave
50% discount for all items.
that this activity will be an open seminar
that expected it will be followed also by the
young people who become participants
IECM 61st and 6th ARC of ICID 2010.
Vina
“APA KABAR” MY OLD BROTHERS
(How are you?)
It was different with the committee who was in
charge for author check in. Mrs. Indrijati S. told
Daily News that everything was going fine.
Some of the paper presenters have been
registered to the “author check in”, and only
some of them who still prepared and about to
finish their papers and power point for the
presentations. “But so far, all of the participants
and presenters were so cooperative with the
committee,” she said.
Ega, Indrijati, Erigas
FIRST INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR OF
YOUNG PROFESSIONAL FORUM
(YPF) INACID
YPF is a new organization that established
about four months ago. As the name
implies, this forum consists of young people
who want to focus on the field of irrigation
and drainage. On 15 October 2010, YPF will
host the first international seminar.
The seminar will be held at West I room at
Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta. It is planned
to bring 14 speakers, one of them came
from Japan, and the other from Indonesia.
The theme of this first international seminar
was not only on irrigation, but also about
the world water resources. It is planned
IECM 61st and 6th ARC of ICID 2010 is a
great opportunity for the participants to
meet and greet their old friends from
different countries.
FIRST DAY SUMMARY OF WORKING
GROUPS ON WATER MANAGEMENT
IN WATER STRESSED REGIONS
Working group on water management in
water-stressed regions run very well. The
meeting which held in the Mataram II room
was followed by about 50 participants from
various countries. In essence, the purpose
of this working group is to provide
information to water-stressed regions, as
well as solutions or steps forward in dealing
with these important issues.
When asked about any country that became
the focus of the issue, Frank Dimick, a civil
engineer of Dimick Water Resources
Engineering that is based in Monroe, Utah,
who became speaker in the meeting, said
that he could not say it specifically. "Each
country must have a water-stressed
region," he said after the working group.
He said that in the working group there was
lot of discussion from many participants.
"We got many progress," he added. In the
second session of the working group, they
also produced a work plan for the next
three years, a sort of action plan expected
to be a concrete step in dealing with issues
related to water management in waterstressed regions.
Frank Dimick
COORDINATION MEETING OF THE
COMMITTEE
Fathoni
Tamansari the Water Castle
Visit Tamansari (Water Castle), you will find a
unique atmosphere of the past periods.
Formerly Tamansari was a recreation garden or
a resting house for the Sultan and Family. The
other resting houses including Warungboto,
Manukberi, Ambarbingun, and Ambarrukmo
functioned for the vacation and meditation for
the royal family. The other function is used as
hiding place for royal family to defend against
the enemy assault.
Not for from Tamansari is Ngasem traditional
market, the biggest bird market in Yogyakarta.
All of those attractions have made Tamansari
become one of main tourist object in
Yogyakarta besides Yogyakarta palace.
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The coordinator meeting was attended by
30 executive committees and led by Mr.
Imam and Mr. Hasan as the leader of
organizer. The meeting talked about the
final preparation of opening ceremony and
also the preparation of the exhibition
inauguration that would be held on
Thursday.
Malioboro, the Souvenirs Paradise
Extends over the imaginary axis connecting the
Sultan's palace, Tugu monument and the peak
of Mount Merapi, this street is formed into a
trading locality after Sri Sultan Hamengku
buwono I developed it as a traditional market
since 1758. Until now, Malioboro still survive as
a trade area and even is one of Yogyakarta's
famous icons.
Down the road about one kilometer would be
very tiring, but stories and memories of old
buildings and a sprinkling of souvenir will treat
it. Enjoy the experience of shopping and
souvenir hunting; tourists can walk along the
shoulder of the road which is an arcade. Here
you will find many vendors that sell
merchandise.
(wayang player) plays puppet made from
buffalo’s leather behind a white screen.
Hence, the audience can only see the
shadow. That’s exactly the reason why it’s
called “wayang” meaning shadow in
English. The attractive parts of the show lie
on the dynamic movement of dalang at
playing different roles of wayang, changing
the voice character, his jokes and even his
singing.
It’s free. However, we need to pay the
entrance fee to get into Keraton (IDR
12,500). The show will be performed every
Saturday, 09.00-13.00 at Keraton
Yogyakarta (The Sultan’s Palace)
Jl. Rotowijayan No. 1
Phone: +62 274 373721
Ranging from local handicrafts such as batik,
rattan ornament, leather puppets, bamboo
crafts (key chains, decorative lamps, etc.) also
blangkon (Javanese / Yogyakarta hat typical)
and silver goods, to merchants who sell a lot of
knick knacks. Throughout the arcade, beside the
tourists can shop in peace in a sunny or rainy
conditions, they can also enjoy a pleasant
shopping experience at bargain prices. If we’re
lucky, it can be reduced for a third or even half
price. (www.yogyes.com)
WAYANG KULIT (LEATHER
PUPPET) SHOW
Wayang kulit (leather puppet) is a
magnificent artwork of Javanese art
performance that has received
acknowledgement from UNESCO. A dalang
Production Team:
Emir Faridz
John P Pantouw
D Fathoni A
No. 03
/ 13 October 2010
CONSTRAINS FOR THE
IRRIGATED AREAS
FARMERS HAD THEIR OWN
WAY
Looking at a chart which is on posters
mounted on the ballroom of Sheraton
Mustika Yogyakarta, a participant of 61st
IECM and 6th ARC of ICID from Rome, Italy,
gave his little opinion. The irrigated area in
the world today has reached almost 300
Mha, with the highest percentage owned by
India, with 60.8%.
In Europe, only the South European region
was the one who had the largest irrigated
areas, like Italy, Spain, Portugal, some also
from Eastern European regions such as
Poland
and
surrounding
countries.
However, the people there can take
advantage of land cultivating time that is so
short of for planting until harvesting. It’s
because the continent with four seasons
certainly had a different planting time with
two season countries. Yet all can be done
effectively and efficiently.
Asia is the continent which has the largest
percentage of irrigated area in the world.
Not surprising since this continent still has a
lot of land and plenty of water. Commented
on African countries, he said in fact there is
a great potential there, because the
available land is so large. However, financial
constraints also become an obstacle to the
development of irrigation systems and
farming there.
Maria C.S
Jakarta - In the midst of a situation which is too
limited, farmers are able to bring innovations in
agricultural cultivation of food to cope with the
impact of global climate change. They hoped
the government is not absent, continues its
support of research.
Farmers are frustrated with the sluggish
attitude of the government in tackling climate
change. With all its limitations, most farmers do
what might be done. There are a variety of
innovations by farmers and proved a success.
For example, to overcome the rotten onion
plants when it rains, farmers are innovating
cultivation techniques by way of deepening the
trench.
There are four basic things that should be
pursued in the face of global climate impact of
an increasingly uncertain. They are the aspect of
production,
distribution,
pricing,
and
networking. Distribution factors can be
improved by building “embung” (lake),
improvement of irrigation infrastructure
including construction of reservoirs. The other
important things that also matter are price and
network cooperation. By establishing a good
cooperation between countries, the sharp rise
in the price fluctuations can be overcome.
www.kompas.com
ASIAN REGIONAL SUMMARRY,
“WHERE ARE WE NOW?” & “WHAT
IS OUR GOAL?”
The Asian Regional Working Group that took
place in Mataram 3 Meeting room came out
with next plan to face the challenge in the Asian
Region, especially related to climate change. In
that session, Japan also gave a kind of report to
all of the participants about the climate change,
titled “Asian Regional Task Force on Climate
Change Meeting”. It was presented by Shinsuke
Ota, the chairman of ARTF-CC.
He explained a lot of things about “Where are
we now” and “What is our goal”. As the
conclusion, ARTF-CC prepares the concise
report consisting of country-wise information
and extracted lessons, which will be really
useful for government officials, researchers,
practitioners and other tackling climate change.
WHERE ARE YOU GUYS?
because no participants in attendance. On the
4th floor of Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta, which
ought to be room for the Task Force on Water
for Bio-energy and Food at 09.00 to 12.30 pm
was followed by only three participants. While
the Adipati room that was planned for the
Working Group on Environment Workshop was
attended by only about 10 people.
Mr. Erwin Tri Nugroho as a committee from
Jogja expressed his opinion that perhaps it was
because of the separated venue for the
meeting, where the most of the meetings were
centered on the ballroom of Sheraton Mustika
Yogyakarta. But he added the lack of
information may also be a reason why some
meetings could have a very few participants.
TURKEY PROMOTED
ITSELF TO HOST ICID’S
NEXT CONFERENCE
As a proposal of hosting ICID 8th Asian
Regional Conference and 64th IEC Meeting
on 2010, the delegation of Turkey as the
candidate was presenting and promoting
itself to the participants who were
gathering in the Asian Regional Working
Group. The international conference that
planned to take place in Antalya, Turkey on
2013 brought “Irrigation Management
under Drought Conditions” as the theme.
A Group of Participants Joined
Jogja Heritage Tour
In the second day of 61st IEC Meeting and 6th
ARC of ICID, there are still some deserted room
that was less of participants, there was even
one or two meetings that had to be canceled
16 participants who did not follow the meeting
or working group on Tuesday (12/10) joined
Jogja tour. The tour began at 08.30 a.m using 2
mini vans. The tour started with a city tour to
visit some tourist attractions in Yogyakarta,
such as the Museum Sonobudoyo, Keraton,
Taman Sari the Water Castle, and Ngasem
traditional market.
After lunch, the tour continued with a tourist
destination Borobudur temple in Magelang,
Central Java. The trip was closed with a visit to
Batik Prawirotaman to see directly the process
of making batik. After that, all of the tour
participants went to Silver smith. Tour ended
around five o'clock. There are also other tour
packages to different destinations for the next
day.
Not only that, some of the committees also
visited Borobudur temple in the early morning
to see the beautiful sunrise view there. They
were Mr. John Pantouw and other committees.
They went to Borobudur at 03.30 in the
morning, just to hunt the sunrise from
Borobudur temple and statues that was so
beautiful. This is one of the 25 photos that he
had captured there. The gorgeous panorama of
Merapi mountain and its cloud.
Tonny
MALAYSIAN DELEGATIONS’
SUNDAY TOUR
The first day arrived in Yogyakarta on
Sunday (10/10), the participants 61st IECM
and 6th ARC of ICID from Malaysia,
amounting to 5 people have made time for
touring to some place in Jogja. They have
visited the tourist area of Mount Merapi
and Merapi Golf Court.
They also made a visit to the Gadjah Mada
University (UGM) and the Indonesian
Islamic University (UII). "Yogyakarta is a
very nice place," said Mrs. Hayati, one of
the participants representing the Malaysian
International Committee on Irrigation and
Drainage.
Hayati
Gala Dinner with Miss
Universe and Puteri Indonesia
2010 at Prambanan Temple
Tuesday (12/10), Miss Universe 2010
Jimena Navarette and Puteri Indonesia 2010
Nadine Alexandra Dewi Ames arrived at the
Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta Resort and
Spa. Their arrival was greeted warmly with a
traditional dance presented by the
Yogyakarta tourism office. The event was
followed by a press conference held at the
Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta’s Suko
Lounge. At that occasion, Jimena Navarette
said that she was impressed with Jogja city,
although it was her first time here. And she
was also thankful for the invitation from
sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta.
maintenance," said Gatot Priono, a Water
Management Specialist.
During the stay in Yogyakarta, the two
beautiful women came to promote the
tourism potential in Yogyakarta Special
Region. First they visited the Taman Sari
Royal Heritage Spa that was recently
opened in Solo. Next they followed a special
gala dinner at Prambanan Temple with the
theme of "The Legend of Roro Jonggrang".
Sekar Ayu GP
Presentation of PISP
Program
On the second day of 61st IECM and 6th
ARC of ICID, there was a special session of
Indonesia-India that presented a program
of Participatory Irrigation Sector Program
(PISP) with Mott MacDonald. This
presentation will be delivered by Mr.
William Pandis from Mott MacDonald. In
the presentation also displayed the design
sector
projects
that
have
been
implemented in the area of Purworejo and
Sragen, Central Java, Indonesia. "PISP is an
irrigation project undertaken by a
participatory approach. So, this program
directly involving farmers from the
construction,
operation,
up
to
The people involved in this program
incorporated in the Union of Water User
Farmers (P3A). This program had run in 6
provinces in Indonesia, from Banten,
Central Java, East Java, to South Sulawesi.
Mr. Gatot added that the construction of
irrigation program is divided into 2, namely
the rehabilitation P3A conducting joint
operations with the contractor, in which at
least P3A involved in 10%. While the second
is a program that is 100% run by SP3 with
funds under 250 million IDR.
A CANADIAN FARMER CAN
FEED MORE THAN 30
FAMILIES, HOW ABOUT
INDONESIA?
It is amazing that country like Canada which
just had a limit of land, water, and planting
time, can produce a lot of crops. Like Ali
Shady said, the statistic prediction showed
that each farmer can feed more than 30
families. Why a country like Indonesia can’t
do such thing too? As we know, Indonesia is
a very large country, with a lot of farming
land areas and plenty of water. The climate
of Indonesia also supported the agriculture
sector.
Mr. Ali from Canada just said that
“technology” is the answer. In his country,
people cultivate the land effectively and
efficiently. So they are not only producing
food for their own people, but they can also
export it. He saw that most people in Asia,
particularly in Indonesia, haven’t taken the
benefit of technology. Whereas, it would be
so useful to increase the crop.
As an example, a Canadian farmer used
machines to cultivate the land and to
harvest. But in Indonesia most people do
those things manually. Maybe it’s also a
challenge for our country, how to take more
benefit from technology so it can help us to
produce better and more food in the future.
Ali Shady
The Committee Added Seats to
Mataram I Room
When the first day there were only 150 reregistered participants, but in the second day it
seemed pretty much progress of the
participants number of 61st IEC Meeting and
6th ARC of ICID. The committee noted the
registration until Tuesday afternoon that there
were 180 participants from abroad, and a total
of 267 participants overall. The committee said
the prediction for tomorrow is the peak of the
attendees’ registration, with a target of 250
foreign participants.
lot of participants. The average attendance rate
of participants was 75 up to 100%.
Erwin Tri Nugroho
ICID NEEDS MORE YOUNG PEOPLE
In the recent year, we can see that ICID was still
held by senior people. Even some people who
have retired were still active in the
organizational activities of ICID. Several
delegations from countries such as China and
Taiwan even always sent the same people to
every ICID meeting both regional and
international levels. No wonder if those who
diligently followed ICID events will always be
met in such opportunity like this.
One positive point was strengthening relations
with the colleagues from various countries. But
on the other hand, the current young
generation is also expected to take over the
roles that existed in ICID. Iran for example, had
made the promotion to the Universities there.
They actively invited youth to participate in the
organization.
They often gave awards for papers produced by
the students, sent them to attend seminars, and
even also recruited students who were
considered to have good potential. One thing
that also supported it was in those countries,
such organizations had been separated from
the government, so they had autonomy in
developing their organizations.
Hafid
The raising number of participants significantly
affected the meeting held in Mataram I room.
The committee even had to add the seats for
the participants who attended the Working
Group on Global Climate Change and
Agricultural Water Management. Several other
rooms which were located in the ballroom of
the Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta also showed a
AFRICAN
PARTICIPANTS
ALSO INTERESTED TO BATIK
For the participants who came from foreign
countries, batik became something unique. On
the sidelines and break time of the 61st IECM
and 6th ARC of ICID, there were a lot of them
who came to see the work of batik and batik
making which was performed directly in the
ballroom of the Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta.
Some participants from Africa in that afternoon
also looked quite enthusiastically asked the
batik maker.
Merapi via Kinahrejo village to descend again at
noon.
When the weather is clear, a spectacular sight
of the panoramic view that covers the
surrounding forest of Plawangan and Kaliurang,
and the rolling green country side that fades
into the distant misty horizon of the blue Indian
Ocean can be seen easily. The best time to view
the mountain is shortly after sunrise (before
09.00 o'clock ), when the early morning light
starts lifting up the shroud of mist around its
peak.
PARANGTRITIS BEACH
"Usually they ask the kinds of batik and the
price," said Lisa who learn batik by self-taught
since she was young. Kouyato Goundo, a
delegate from Mali, Africa also expressed her
attraction to the original traditional art of Jogja.
Lisa
KALIURANG MOUNTAIN RESORT
Kaliurang lies at the foot of Plawangan hill on
the southern slope of mount Merapi, some 28
km, north of Yogyakarta. This is a refreshing
holiday resort for those seeking refuge and
tranquility amidst the lush green tropical
splendour. As a mountain resort Kaliurang
offers accommodation facilities - villas,
bungalows, inns as well as recreational facilities,
such as swimming pools, tennis courts and
playground. Many people visit Kaliurang,
especially during the holidays. Young people,
like boy scouts, enjoy going there since the
town provides camping sites and places for
mountaineering. Those who like mountain
climbing can climb the Merapi Mountain from
Kaliurang. One can stay overnight in Kaliurang
then start, very early in the morning, climbs the
Parangtritis ha long been famous, not only as a
beach resort where sand-dunes, sandy beach
and rocky cliffs meet, but it is also a historical
place which closely related to the mysterious
legend of the Queen of the south sea " Kanjeng
Ratu Kidul ", who together with her confident,
the feared Nyai Loro Kidul, the ever youthful
and beautiful queen, reign over sea nymphs and
spirits. The Legends say that Kanjeng Ratu Kidul
was married to one of the Mataram Monarch,
Panembahan Senopati whom she visited and
communed with on certain occasions. It is said
that the name Parangtritis expresses a natural
phenomenon. From the wall of one of the hills
drops off water containing calcium continuously
dripped down and finally formed a pool with a
very clear water in it. Sri Sultan Hamengku
Buwono Vll found and took care of it. The pool
is now used as the bathing pool of Parangtritis
swimming pool.
Production Team:
Emir Faridz
John P Pantouw
D Fathoni A
No. 04
/ 14 October 2010
IRRIGATION IN
INDONESIA : NOW AND
FUTURE
used to irrigate eastern Java areas such as Kediri
and Ponorogo.
It must be recognized that irrigation in
Indonesia ever delivered this nation as a selfsufficient in food. But it turned out to not be
maintained due to lack of maintenance. Most
engineers just want to build and build, but for
maintenance, no one wanted to be responsible.
For the future, Indonesia seems to need to
move the concentration on the island of Java to
other islands in eastern Indonesia such as
Sulawesi and Papua. It needs a change in
philosophy that development is based on the
human to a development based on natural
resources.
Soenarno
WORKING GROUP ON
HISTORY OF IRRIGATION,
DRAINAGE AND FLOOD
CONTROL
Initially, irrigation in Indonesia was only for our
own needs (social purpose). The longer it
developed; irrigation became something that
was the fulfillment of the economy (economic
purpose.) In terms of water availability has
undergone many changes, from the plenty of
and easy to get water, then it became very
limited and difficult to get.
From the first known of irrigation, Indonesia
had adopted surface irrigation, which took
water from the rivers. However in 1968 during a
solo river flooding every year, Indonesia began
to implement ground water irrigation. Because
they found that soil water in that area already
saturated. The water was then pumped and
On Wednesday, October 13, 2010, there
was a working group on history of irrigation,
drainage and flood control presented by
Kamran Emami, the Chairman. The theme
that was presented in the meeting was
“Past Water Wisdom for Future
Challenges”.
The objective of this working group is to
motivate ICID National Committees in
various countries to set up their National
Working Groups and provide them guidance
to compile, publish, update and/or translate
documents on history of irrigation,
drainage, flood control, and river
engineering, incorporating relevant
agricultural, political, socio-economic,
climatological and geographical aspects for
proper understanding of the technological
developments in the subject, if possible
chronologically. Furthermore, to organize
seminars at ICID Congresses, in order to
show the importance of historical studies
and as to how they help when planning for
the new projects.
food day, October 19-22. Therefore, the
consumption of rice as the main carbohydrate
source must be reduced to 1.5% per year. It's
not easy because rice is the main food in
Indonesian.
Anticipate the need for food; the daily executive
director of food crops protection from the
ministry of agriculture, Sarsito Wahono also
warned that climate change could threaten
national food security.
www.kompas.com
Tommy Sitompul
Indonesia will be
exhausted if continues to
depend on rice
Jakarta - Indonesia's dependence on rice as a
staple food is rising up. If in 1950 the national
rice consumption of total carbohydrate was
53%, this year the figure rose to 95%.
Head of the center of consumption and food
safety agency of agriculture ministry, Mulyono
Machmur explained that as the population
grows, consumption of rice in Indonesia will
continue to rise.
"Indonesia will be exhausted if it continues to
spur the production of rice more than 5%," he
said in a press conference to welcome the world
GENDER ACTION PLAN BY
WATER USER FARMERS
ASSOCIATION
Although working in the field of irrigation
and drainage, Water User Farmers
Association (P3A) in Indonesia also still care
about gender equality. They did a gender
action plan which required at least 30% of
women in their organizations. So that, in
the membership, management and training
they did, at least there will be at least 30%
of women who got involved. Mr. Gatot
Priono which is the project coordinator of
Participatory Irrigation Sector (PISP) in
Semarang saw this as a positive step. He
said the program was quite successful
because there were many women
incorporated in the P3A and became an
active member in every program held by
them.
SABO DAM TECHNICAL TOUR
On Wednesday (13/10), 40 participants from
foreign countries together with the committees
from PU joined a technical tour. The journey
began at 06.00 am from Sheraton Mustika
Yogyakarta. On this occasion, their first
destination was Tlatar Sabo Dam (sabo dam
combined with irrigation facility). After that the
group went to Ketep Pass, a natural attractions
located on the slopes of Merapi in Sawangan,
Central Java. From this place we can see
panoramic views of Merapi and indovolcanoes.
8th Asian Regional Conference and 64th IEC
Meeting of ICID on 2013. Several posters
and banners were displayed in the ballroom
and lobby of the Sheraton Mustika
Yogyakarta.
They also gave merchandise and CD that
can be taken free of charge by the
participants. Thailand had proposed itself to
host the 8th ICID Asian Regional Conference
and 64th IEC Meeting in Chiang Mai on
2013 with the theme "Water Management
in the Changing World".
TWO VIEW POINTS OF WEB
CONFERENCE
The trip continued to Borobudur Temple in
Magelang regency, Central Java Province.
During the trip, the committee of PU (Public
Works) who accompanied members also
explained the technical issues associated with
the places they visited. After the Borobudur, the
group visited the Sabo Dam BO-D3 (sabo dams
combined with road), and Merapi Museum. In
this museum participants can see the history of
the Merapi eruption. Ranging from photographs
and video documentation.
Tonny
VOTE CHIANG MAI 2013
If yesterday Turkey had been promoting
themselves as a candidate for the next
event’s organizer, one of the beautiful
countries in Asia, Thailand, also did the
same to get some supports for hosting the
In the midst of the current technological
advances, communication can be done
anytime, anywhere and to everywhere. It
also became an input to ICID to hold a web
conference in their meetings. It had also
previously been suggested by the National
Committee in Australia. The existence of a
web conference can make a meeting with
anyone from anywhere without having to
meet physically. But this proposal has not
received further response from officials in
ICID. Surely this can not be resolved in a
short time. At least it would take two years
to make further consideration of this
proposal.
According to Mr. Hafied, besides it will save
cost, time and energy, it will also very
efficient in its execution. But on the other
side, there would be less opportunity to
strengthen the relations and meet with
colleagues and old friends from various
countries. In addition, if we held
international conferences in various
countries, it will also help the country to
introduce themselves to other people who
were there. Based on the capabilities and
current conditions, Mr. Hafied only
commented that we can make the
transition slowly, can not be drastic.
INDONESIA-INDIA JOINED
SESSION PRESENTED A CASE
STUDY OF PURWOREJO
On Tuesday (12/10) had been held an
“Indonesia-India Joined Session” with the
theme “Existing status of Participative
Irrigation management”. The material was
presented by Ir. Moh. Hassan, Dr. M. basuki
Hadimuljono, M.Sc., and also Mr. W. J. van
Diest. Still in the same session, the second
presentation was about “The
Implementation of Participating irrigation
management and development”. It was a
case study from Purworejo District, Central
Java province, Indonesia. This was
presented by Ir. Adang Sat ahmad and Ir. W.
J. Van Diest.
Tommy Sitompul
NUTRIENT LEACHING ON
AGRICULTURE
A working group in the room Sheraton
Mustika Yogyakarta had a good discussion
about the Nutrient Leaching on Agriculture.
They talked about a methodology to predict
the nitrogen or nitrate substance which was
lost from the farm land. Some delegates
from various countries shared their
experiences as occurring in their countries.
China for example, has made the mapping
of polluted areas. This is certainly cost a lot
of money, but the benefits can be directly
felt by the farmers there. Germany also
made a sort of experiments to investigate
the loss of nitrate by a method using
selective electrodes. Similarly, South Africa
which now continued to develop many
researches and experiments to solve one of
the problems faced by agriculture today.
JATILUHUR DAM on
jatiluhur.net
Jatiluhur located in District Jatiluhur,
Purwakarta Regency (± 9 km from the center of
Purwakarta). Jatiluhur Dam is the largest dam in
Indonesia. The dam was named by the
government Reservoir Ir. H. Juanda, with
panoramic lake which covers about 8300 ha.
The dam was built since 1957 by a French
contractor, with the potential of the available
water of 12.9 billion m3 / year and is the first
multipurpose dam in Indonesia.
If you want to know more information about
this place, just click on
http://www.jatiluhur.net/. Starting from the
love and care about the environment, then the
site was created as a forum for environmental
activists to share information about
environmental conditions that developed in the
area.
With hope that we can unify our vision and
mission to always care about the preservation
of the environment around us.
Jatiluhur.NET founded as a non-governmental
NGO, a non profit organization that has focused
to a learning objective to the broad community,
and students from elementary school until the
university to maintenance the environment of
Jatiluhur and the environment in Indonesia
generally.
Jatiluhur.NET do not have a political mission
and did not have duty of a particular agency or
institution.
www.jatiluhur.net
An Hour with “KECAPI”
Hearing the strains of kecapi sound that was
played by a young man in the ballroom of
Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta, was making one
of the committee are interested to try it.
Javanese stringed music instrument proved very
unique for Ms. Dewi, one of the committee
from Jakarta. She enjoyed playing the “kecapi”
although for her it was quite difficult.
If you want to feel the sensation of playing the
“kecapi”, just come up beside the “Batik booth”
in the ballroom of Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta
and the young man will be pleasure to tell you
how to play it.
INVITATION FOR YOUNG
PROFESSIONALS:
“ROAD TO TEHRAN 2011”
The 62nd ICID-IEC meeting and 21st
International Congress on irrigation and
drainage, 8th International micro irrigation
congress will be held in Tehran, Iran, on
May 2011 by Iranian National committee on
irrigation and drainage (IRNCID).
Therefore, all interested participants are
welcome to exchange ideas, experiences,
new technologies and innovations, as well
as to share benefits from scientific aspects.
You can note the following extended
deadlines for submission of papers.
Submission deadline of comprehensive
summary and conclusion of about 500-600
words is 30 November 2010. Intimation of
acceptance of summary and conclusion
deadline is 15 January 2011. And the receipt
of full text of accepted papers will be on 01
March 2011. All young professionals of ICID
National Irrigation and Drainage
Committees are invited actively participate
in the congress as well as annual meeting in
Tehran.
LADY’S PROGRAM AND
COOKING CLASS
committee explained again that so far they can
handle everything well.
Some of the participants of 61st IECM and 6th
ARC of ICID who came from abroad also came
with their families, including their wives and
children. In the 3rd day, one of them came up to
one of the committee and asked about the
“ladies program” because they didn’t know
what to do when their husband was in the
meeting. Unfortunately, there was no lady’s
program in this event. But you do not to be
worry because there are some tour packages
that you can take from the hotel.
Some of the women participants also had an
idea of cooking session. It’s a program where
they can learn to cook with other participants
too. Some of participants agreed with the idea,
and if there are at least 3 participants who
would join the program, it will come soon in
Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta.
One other thing that became constrain for them
were the different languages. So there was a
little bit difficulty in communication with some
participants. But with their hospitality, the
committees always tried to give the best to the
participants of 61st IECM and 6th ARC of ICID.
384 PARTICIPANTS
ALREADY HAD THEIR
“PHOTO SHOOT”
THE “ADELAIDE 2012” TEAM
The committee from registration division
reported that in the 3rd day, there are already
384 participants who had registered and took
their photos. They came from various countries
(about 35 countries) and also from Indonesia. It
showed a better progress for this event,
because on Thursday (14/10), there would be
an opening ceremony of 61st IECM and 6th ARC
of ICID.
The committee said that so far everything can
be ran well, although some of the participants
still complained about the light when they want
to take their photos in the registration room.
Because the bad light made the result of their
photo shoots were not good. But the
Australian Trade Commission under the
Australian Government and also Irrigation
Australia give an invitation that requests the
pleasure of your company to the “Irrigation
Australia Networking Function” with
Australian Irrigation Industry
representatives. The meeting will take place
at The Suko Wine Lounge, Sheraton Mustika
Yogyakarta Resort and Spa, Thursday, 14th
October 2010 at 5.00 pm.
Production Team:
Emir Faridz
John P Pantouw
D Fathoni A
No. 05
/ 15 October 2010
SRI PADUKA PAKU ALAM IX
MARKED THE OPENING
CEREMONY BY BEATING
‘GONG’
prominent figures who attended. The top part
of the opening ceremony was the Inauguration
ceremony symbolically by beating the "Gong"
by Sri Paduka Paku Alam IX accompanied by
esteemed leaders.
ICID 6th Asian Regional Conference this time
brought the theme "Improvement of irrigation
and Drainage Efficiency under the Small Holding
Land Condition". The leaders who attended
appreciated the event, and hoped that it can
allow the participants to share the development
of Irrigation and Drainage in the past and
future. Especially to deal with global climate
change that will affect the world’s food security.
On Thursday (14/10), officially ICID 6th Asian
Regional Conference opened in the ballroom of
the Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta. In that
morning, some important figures presented to
mark the opening of the Asian regional
conference held on October 14-16. They are Ir.
Agus Imam Nugroho, Dipl. HE as a Chairman of
Organizing Committee; Prof. Dr. Chandra A.
Madramootoo Ph.D., Ing. as the President of
ICID; Sri Paduka Paku Alam IX as the Vice
Governor of Yogyakarta; Minister of
Parliamentary Affairs and Water Resources,
Government of India, Hon'ble Pawan Kumar
Bansal and Also the Minister of Public Works,
Dr. Ir. Djoko Kirmanto, Dipl. HE.
Starting at 09.00 a.m, ceremony opened with a
traditional dance of Yogyakarta that was
delivered by 5 couples of talented Dancers.
After that also delivered speeches from
GENERAL REPORT FROM THE
PLENARY SESSION
After the opening ceremony on Thursday
morning (14/10), there was a plenary session of
ICID 6th Asian Regional Conference in the
ballroom of Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta. The
conference’s theme was “Improvement of
Irrigation and Drainage Efficiency through
Participatory Development and Management
under Small Holding Condition”. In the plenary,
some of important figures also attended. They
are Dr. Ir. M. Amron M. Sc. Director General of
Water Resources, Ministry of Public Works and
also H. E. Hon’ble Pawan Kumar Bansal, the
Minister of Parliamentary affairs and Water
resources, Government of India.
There was also a general report of the
conference that was presented by Mr. Paul van
Hofwegen as a general reporter.
The general report began with the description
of the small holders. They are the owners of
small farm holding with no capability to
(significantly) contribute financially to system
development and management. In this region
for example, a small holder has to feed more
people on less land with less water.
traditional farmer participation patterns like the
Subak model on Bali or other traditional
communities were presented.
He also explained the findings from contributing
papers. In general, papers presented the
experiences and best practices from different
countries for small holders in coping with water
scarcity, participative management, climate
change and environmental issues and
urbanization and the rapid development of rural
and urban infrastructures.
SRI as one of the
remarkable ways for
ensuring water use
efficiency in Indonesia
During this seminar, participants have explored
many aspects of irrigation history, but also of
the present, and we have even experienced
projections of the future. Most presentations
dealt with Indonesia, but there was also an
interesting presentation on the Aichi-canal in
Japan, a good case-study to compare with
Indonesian cases. Technical systems were
explored, in a large variety, but also
organizational problems and practices, like
stakeholder management, budgetary matters, O
and M performances, sustainability and
religious and cultural aspects of irrigation
management were highlighted.
Some presentations emphasized the richness of
traditional wisdom, but, on the other hand, in
another presentation, exploring a statistical
approach, a mixture of traditional knowledge
and governmental interference turned out to be
an optimal management strategy. And religious
rituals, as well as traditional belief systems were
identified as relevant factors in irrigation
management issues, as these may have a
motivating potential to improve the farmer's
performance. Many ancient irrigation structures
still function in today's Indonesia, notably in
remote areas, which reveals even more the
relevance of past knowledge and expertise.
To conclude, this richness of historical
knowledge and practices may inspire us to work
out solutions to respond to the many challenges
ahead in the irrigation field.
Bert Toussaint, Tommy Sitompul
Regarding the historical aspects, the seminar
provided much learning material. The colonial
heritage was discussed, its beneficial effects and
its adverse consequences; case-studies on
PARTICIPANTS
ENTHUSIASTICALLY
TOOK PHOTOS WITH
THE DANCERS
to exchange information among members for
the improvement of water resources
management. To facilitate closer relations
among NARBO members, the program includes
information exchange, staff exchange and
exchange visit.
In the exhibitions of 61st IECM and 6th ARC of
ICID, NARBO presented in the ballroom of
Sheraton Mustika Yogykarta to give you all of
information about the organization, programs,
and activities. For further information, you can
go to the stand or booth and meet Ms. Sakuma
Chie from Japan Water Agency who will give
you a friendly explanation.
Sakuma Chie
After the opening ceremony, some participants
who had left the room enthusiastically were
taking some pictures with the dancers who just
performed the traditional dance in the Opening
ceremony. The dancers wore traditional
Javanese costumes served each participant who
wanted to capture that special moment
friendly.
NARBO TO HELP ACHIEVE
INTERGRATED WATER RESOURCES
MANAGEMENT (IWRM)
Network of Asian River Basin Organization
(NARBO) officially established in February 2004
and was announced at the 3rd World Water
Forum in March 2003. The total member now is
15 countries, including Indonesia. The goal is to
help achieve Integrated Water Resources
Management in river basin throughout Asia. For
that goal, NARBO carries out some programs
like information sharing activities, thematic
workshop, benchmarking, training course, and
also twinning program.
SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS FROM
YOGYAKARTA
Since doing promotions at the conference in
Pakistan 2008 and India 2009, Mr. Basuki saw
that so far the 61st IECM and 6th ARC of ICID
held in Yogyakarta this year was good enough.
Until the fourth day, he himself saw that the
participants from abroad quite a lot compared
with the previous event, about almost 200
participants from the foreign countries. "They
look more enjoy. Knowing that the conference
will be held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, some of
them also came with their kids and wife to visit
this city, "he said during a coffee break.
He considered that with the hundreds of guests
from abroad that came to Yogyakarta, it is
certainly lifting the existing potential in
Yogyakarta which is famous for its historical and
cultural tourism. The participants who gathered
in the conference not only exchange
information about the field of irrigation and
drainage, but also about their culture and social
issues of each country. It can strengthen the
relationship for each other country.
NARBO’s twinning program promotes the
adoption of good practices by other members
sediment,” he said after the opening ceremony
of 61st IECM and 6th ARC of ICID.
Mr. Soenarno who’s also an activist commented
that it's been a lot of new faces in attendance at
the ICID conference. "I can not meet some of
my old friends," he said. But this is positively
regarded as one of the ICID progress for its
member regeneration. Looking ahead, Mr.
Imam Agus as the Chairman of Organizing
Committee said that it is expected to be even
more young professionals who will be involved
in the next programs and activities organized by
the ICID.
Mr. Andre Roux who was the representative of
Department of Agriculture came to Indonesia
with 11 delegations from his country. He said
that he found that topic interesting because his
country also faces the similar problem. This
exhibition is a good chance to show what the
companies had. The information given in this
event will be so useful for those who have the
same challenge and problem in irrigation,
drainage and water resources.
Andre Roux
Mr. Basuki, Mr. Imam Agus
EXHIBITION GAVE A LOT
OF USEFUL
INFORMATIONS
During the exhibitions that held in the ballroom
of Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta, Andre Roux,
the delegation from South Africa shared his
opinion about the most interesting part of the
exhibition. “I’m interested to the development
of water resources and the warning system for
TAIWAN ALWAYS ENCOURAGE
THE YOUNG PROFESSIONALS
Taiwan delegation seems to always be one of
the largest groups in every ICID conference.
"We always send a representative of more than
20 people," said one delegate. This year in the
61st and 6th IECM ARC of ICID held in
Yogyakarta, Taiwan sent 27 participants from
various institutions, such as universities,
consultants, irrigation association and also the
government.
This year Taiwan showed regeneration of
approximately 20 participants because it was
the first time they follow the international and
regional conferences. Taiwan also always
encouraged the young professionals to be
actively involved in a lot of programs, activities
and conferences.
In the 61st IECM and 6th ARC of ICID in
Yogyakarta, some delegations from Taiwan also
participated to present their papers in the
working group. One of them is Professor HsiaoWen Wang from National Cheng Kung
University.
In organizing its participation in the
international and regional conferences, Taiwan
proved to be professional. Since a year ago even
they had prepared a book containing a list of all
participants at the conference and also selected
papers, including the abstracts. Not only that,
they also made it two versions in Chinese and
English, so it can be understood by all of the
participants.
Ivan Chen, Ming-Young Jan, Chang-Chi
Cheng
YPF-INACID 2010 AT WEST 1 TODAY
In the series of events of 61st IECM and 6th ARC
of ICID in Yogyakarta, today (15/10) the
committee will also held an International
seminar for Young Professional. The Seminar
will be held in West 1 at the ballroom of
Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta. During the
seminar, there would be 3 sessions of panel
discussion from 08.30-18.00. There would be
about 20 paper presentations that would be
presented in each panel discussion. So, for all of
participants who want to be involved in the
Young Professional Forum,don’t miss this
special chance. Come and join the Seminar
because it’s opened for every young
professional.
Vina
THE APPLICATION OF
MATHEMATICAL MODELS FOR
AN ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW
ASSESSMENT AND TOTAL
MAXIMUM DAILY LOAD (TMDL)
OF PRACHINBURI–
BANGPAKONG RIVER
This research assessed the environmental water
demand and Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL)
of Prachinburi-Bangpakong River, Thailand. This
was done by applying the mathematical models
in order to study Dissolved Oxygen (DO) and
Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), assess the
TMDL in the form of pollutants that had BOD,
and evaluate Environmental Flows (EF) or
minimum demand of water reservation,
respectively.
The studied river was selected distances of 146
km inland freshwater and was divided into five
reaches which based on the Water Quality
Monitoring Station of the Pollution Control
Department. Research results using the
mathematical models indicated that in studying
the water quality of the river during 1996-2006,
the mean of DO was between 4.9 - 6.8 mg/L and
the mean of BOD was between 1.7 - 2.1 mg/L.
Furthermore, the assessment of the TMDL in
the form of BOD found that the mean of the
TMDL in real condition was between 33.5 109.9 kg/d and the mean of the TMDL in Class 3
condition was between 43.9 - 506.5 kg/d.
Environmental Flows Assessment found that the
mean of the water flow in real condition was
between 7.6 - 11.7 m3/s and the mean of the
water flow in Class 3 condition was between 10
- 53.9 m3/s. This identified condition will enable
better water quality and carrying capacity of the
river. Therefore, the water flow in Class 3
condition was limited to EF, which was the
minimum demand of water reservation in this
river. (Author: Apaporn Bulsathaporn,
Kampanad Bhaktikul, Chumlong Arunlertaree,
Watchara Sueadee and Arthon Suttigarn)
MANCID TO PROMOTE TOURISM
MALAYSIA
On the 4th day of 61st IECM and 6th ARC of ICID,
there was an exhibition in the ballroom of
Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta. Malaysia,
represented by the Malaysian National
Committee on Irrigation and Drainage
(MANCID) did not want to miss this opportunity
to promote their country. Of course they didn’t
open a stand (booth) like other companies that
followed the exhibition. They used a simple way
by distributing souvenirs that can be taken for
free by the participants at the ICID book stand
in the ballroom of Sheraton Mustika
Yogyakarta.
Ega, who was in charge in the booth said that
the souvenir distributed by Mancid became an
interesting thing to a lot of participants. There
was a lot of people who wanted to get the
souvenirs. Some of the souvenirs are mininotes, pin, and postcard from Tourism Malaysia.
Ega
PARTICIPANTS FROM CANADA
VISITED BOROBUDUR TEMPLE
For many participants from abroad, coming to
Yogyakarta will be more memorable if they visit
the famous landmarks there. Borobudur Temple
is one of favorite destinations for participants
who want to travel. Thursday (14/10), two cars
went to Borobudur Temple which is located in
Magelang regency, Central Java. In this
opportunity, the participants who went there
were a group from Canada, including Mr. Ali
Shady.
For other participants who want to enjoy the
beauty of Yogyakarta and its surroundings,
Borobudur or Prambanan Temple is an
attractive destination, because it can be a
historical tour as well as cultural tour. But for
those who want to shop and see the central city
of Yogyakarta, Malioboro is the right
destination. There you can find many items of
Jogja’s souvenirs, and also feel the atmosphere
of the real Jogja.
LET THE MUSIC SPEAKS ABOUT
WATER
If we used to get the information about water
management from papers or books, there is an
unusual way to present the information about
water management. Ki Siswoko Sastrodiharjo
from Indonesia made a special album of
Javanese traditional songs that speak about
water management. The album also supported
by Jasa Tirta I. And in this album, you can listen
to his 4 songs : “hanggulowentah Tirto”,
“Mangayubagyo PU”, “Bebenduning Alam”,
“Perum Jasa Tirta I”. Beside you can get a lot of
information, you can also entertained with the
exotic songs, and of course can be one of your
best album collection.
Production Team:
Emir Faridz
John P Pantouw
D Fathoni A
No. 06
/ 16 October 2010
SPECIAL REPORT of
WORLD FOOD DAY
“Survival in the Rice Granary”
Food is now and future major challenge for
Indonesia because of natural resources,
especially land and water for agriculture,
became so limited. Population continued to
grow, poverty was still unresolved, and we’re
now dealing with climate change as well.
Ministry of Agriculture has released droughtresistant rice varieties and resistant varieties
puddle. However, the weather forecast is still a
barrier for food farming requires weather
information in the next four months. The role of
extension becomes important, not just quantity,
but quality and dedication.
Kompas, October 15, 2010
Not far from the city of Cimahi, West Java,
Kampung Cirendeu community since 1924, only
ate rice flour made from cassava as a main
source of carbohydrates. It wasn’t because they
can’t afford to buy rice, but cassava was chosen
to preserve their self-esteem and balance with
nature. Cirendeu community now feels proud
because their living to nearly 100 years. They
never lack of food because of cassava grown on
the slopes of the hills surrounding their village.
"We do not rely on rice," said Asep, one of the
residents of traditional village Cirendeu.
Towards the World Food Day, 16 October, with
the theme of Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations "United Against Hunger"
and the national theme "Independence Food to
Fight Hunger, Cirendeu community gained
relevance.
JOGJA JAVA CARNIVAL 2010, BE
THERE
Jogja Java Carnival is a night carnival which is a
package that does not exist or has never been
held in Indonesia, except in the city of
Yogyakarta. The presence of technology, the
composition of shapes, colors and variety of
light pouring into the main thing in creating
excitement and fun night. Diversity of all forms
will gathered in one place at the same time. The
artists and the audiences of carnival performers
from all over the region of Yogyakarta,
Indonesia, and even overseas will be united in a
harmony.
The theme "Harmonight" in Jogja Java Carnival
2010 will be divided into 3 sub themes, which
consist of Human Harmony (In harmony with
the Fellow), Universe Harmony (In harmony
with Nature) and the Heaven Harmony (In
harmony with the Creator).
Carnival art installations by the vehicles will be
run along Malioboro street - Ahmad Yani street
and will finish in the North Square of Yogyakarta
Kingdom (Keraton). It was prepared as an
international event held at night. Jogja Java
Carnival will be held on October 16, 2010, start
from 19:00 pm.
Senior Participants Also Involved in
YPF-INACID Seminar 2010
In the series of Young Professional Forum (YPF)
seminar, which was held at the West 1 on
Friday (15/10) turned out to attract a lot of
participants. But from all of the participants
who gathered in the room, we can still see the
faces of seniors who also participated. Around
15 senior participants involved in the YPFINACID seminar. This can be interpreted as a
support for the young people who presented
their real role in the studies, researches and
programs that they do.
Not only that, all participants of senior and
young professional still listen to presentations
given by speakers during the seminar. Some
papers presented at the seminar were "Water
and economic development: Correlation
Between Investment in the Water sectors and
Economic Growth of Developing Country" and
"The design of Irrigation Drainage System Due
to the Influence of Global Climate Change".
SRI GOES TO SOLOMON
SRI (System of Rice Intensification) has now
been developed in Indonesia. One of them who
developed it is Mrs. Miyati, a farmer from
Ngawi district, East Java Province who has
developed this method in recent years.
Recently, Mrs. Miyati with Bill Clinton
Foundation, Cornell University and World Bank,
expanding the SRI project into the Solomons.
During the 2 weeks of being there, they shared
a lot of informations to residents in one
province on rice cultivation using SRI methods.
Apparently people in the Solomons were very
enthusiastic, and even "addicted" to the rice
that actually was not their staple food. "That's
why, after this I will go back to the Solomons
and develop this program in four provinces
there," said Mrs.Miyati which also planed to go
to the islands of Fiji and New Zealand for the
same mission.
In Indonesia, SRI research center located in
West Java, named NOSC (Nusantara Organic SRI
Center). The products of SRI Rice grown in
Tasikmalaya even been exported to Malaysia,
U.S. and Singapore. SRI is a system of organic
rice cultivation of high productivity, saving
water, fertilizer-efficient, environmentally
friendly, and certainly healthy to eat.
PAKISTAN FLOOD, THE BIGGEST
TRAGEDY
Floods in Pakistan that occurred in July 2010
were one of the biggest disasters that ever
happened in Pakistan and also in the world. One
of the Pakistani delegations, Mr. Husnan Ahmad
had his opportunity to give presentations on
West 1. He shared his experiences from his
country. He played a video documentary that
described the condition of Pakistan when the
disaster occurred.
The houses were destroyed, the victims were
washed away the water. Children in refugee
camps do not get proper facilitation. "The real
condition is much worse than this. But I can not
show the picture, because it was so creepy and
horrible, "Mr. Husnan said while editing the
video. He felt the need to share this experience
with participants from other countries because
this is a very important issue. Floods can
happen anytime and anywhere in the country.
This meeting and working group was so useful
to share the experiences and exchange ideas for
a better future.
for irrigation reservoirs and canals, agricultural
pits and ponds, or even waste water reservoirs.
Mr. Edy said that the US product is now going to
Indonesian Market as the solution of irrigation,
drainage and agricultural problems.
AN INISIATIVE OF WATER
HARVESTING
SHARE YOUR INFORMATION TO THE
MAILBOX
Learning from experiences that occurred in
Australia, an idea came on the Exhibiton of 61st
IECM and 6th ARC of ICID. Mr. Edy Mahadi and
Mr. Tommy Sitompul discussed the idea of
'water harvesting'. In Australia, water
harvesting system run by rainwater harvesting.
The rainwater was then processed to a variety
of needs, both needs for irrigation and daily
necessities.
They daydreamed if only Indonesia can
implement this sort of thing. Especially to face
the climate change issue that now had been a
big challenge for Indonesia as well as other
countries too. If there were initiatives to make
water harvesting, water resources can certainly
be used efficiently for various other needs.
WATER, THE SOURCE OF LIFE
Firestone came to the exhibitions of 61st IECM
and 6th ARC of ICID to promote their best
geomembrane product which becomes a
solution for agricultural application needs.
Geomembrane is a rubber liner offering a
flexible and durable material which can be used
So far, this product had been applied in a lot of
countries in Europe and US. He also added that
if it can be applied in Indonesia, it can be
cheaper for both agricultural and industrial
needs. “I also hoped that it can give prosperity
to farmers in Indonesia,” he said in Firestone
booth. He wished for the better future of
Indonesian agriculture by preserving the water,
because for him, water is the source of life.
Do you see two racks in the ballroom of
Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta? You will find
a row of mailboxes with the names of the
countries. That's the mailbox you can use to
leave any information from your country or
your institution. This will be very useful to
exchange information with participants
from other countries. You can leave
brochures, business cards, booklets and
other forms of information to make it easier
to be taken by anyone who needs it.
UGM PROUDLY TO BE THE ONLY
UNIVERSITY IN THE EXHIBITION
Among many companies and institutions
involved in the Exhibiton of 61st IECM and 6th
ARC of ICID, University of Gadjah Mada (UGM)
as the largest state university in Yogyakarta
participated to exhibit System of Rice
Intensification projects undertaken by students
of the Faculty of Agriculture.
Faculty of Agriculture Gadjah Mada University
has been conducting research as well as
counseling for farmers in rural areas Sidorejo,
Godean, Yogyakarta. They also facilitated the
farmers in the village with agricultural facilities
for the project can be done well.
In the beginning of 2010, UGM also held a SRI
competition at the provincial level in
Yogyakarta. The participants were farmers in
the region of Yogyakarta, from the districts of
Bantul, Sleman, Kulonprogo, and Gunung Kidul.
The winner of the competition was the farmers
from Kulon Progo Regency yields 11 tons per ha.
This achievement was very good and hopefully
in the future can be developed in more villages
in Yogyakarta. Therefore, the team from the
Faculty of Agriculture UGM will continue to do
counseling as well as direct practice with the
farmers in the region of Yogyakarta.
ADELAIDE 2012 TO BE THE SINGLE
LARGEST CONFERENCE
Why Irrigation Australia is so heavily promoting
Adelaide as host ICID conference in 2012? In
one occasion during the exhibition of 61st IECM
and 6th ARC of ICID, Mr. Chris Bennett, CEO of
Irrigation Australian explained that for this 10
decades, Australia faced the biggest issue :
drought. This made Australia as one of the
driest continent in the world because they
experienced a long drought during that time.
Adelaide itself is a driest State in the driest
content. On the special occasion of dinner in
Suko Wine Lounge Sheraton Mustika
Yogyakarta, Irrigation Australia represented by
Mr. Chris said that irrigation sector is critical to
both water security and food suply. Australia
and Indonesia have a lot to gain by working
together in this sector.
The 2012 conference will be held at the
Adelaide Convention Center from 24-29 June
2012 and will be the single largest irrigation
event ever staged in Australia as it will be
combine with the ICID 63rd IECM and 7th Asian
Regional Conference. The conference will focus
on several important things, such as the latest
development in urban and rural recycling,
treated waste water for parklands and
horticulture, environmental and water policy,
flood control and droughts and extensive
program of technical tour. This event would also
come with major exhibitions of more than 200
booths. (Chris Bennet)
SPECIAL DINNER BY IRNCID,
TOWARD TEHRAN 2011
There was a dinner host by IRNCID at the Grand
Quality Hotel Yogyakarta on Thursday (14/10).
The dinner started at 19.00 p.m and attended
by a lot of delegations from various countries. In
that occasion, IRNCID promote the next event
of ICID that would be held in Tehran on 2011.
They presented slideshow and video
presentation which told about their country as
the host of 62nd IEC Meeting of ICID. After that,
there were about 20 participants who were the
alumnus of Delf - Netherland, continued to have
a reunion. It was held in the “Pecel Solo”
restaurant until midnight.
DRAINAGE FLOW
HARVESTING AND ITS ONFARM RE-USING IN LOCAL
IRRIGATED PLOTS
Social and political reforms (“perestroika”)
taken place in Russia in the 90s of the last
century activated agrarian sector revisions.
Besides large-scale agricultural enterprises
many small farms with different types of landed
property were established in Russia. Nowadays
small farms represent about 90% of all
agricultural enterprises.
Large-scale irrigation projects having been built
to water large fields are operated in the
conditions of combined state and private
landed property within the same irrigation
scheme. Integrated approach in irrigation
management for such irrigation units supposes
high effectiveness of water use.
Such an approach providing high water
productivity and big crops for arid areas is onfarm drainage flow recycling within the
separate farm on the base of the common
water-use for irrigation purposes. Type of
drainage, filters, drain spacing and drain depth
depend on requirements and special features of
drainage flow-recycling structures.
An approach on drainage flow local recycling
structures design providing drainage flow
harvesting and conditioning is proposed in the
paper. The essential constituents of the
drainage flow local recycling structures are units
on drainage flow desalting and purification. It
enables to use treated drainage flow for
irrigation in some periods of crop cultivation as
well as for other purposes. (Ludmila
Kireycheva, Irina Glazunova)
COOKING SESSION IS WAITING FOR
THE LADIES
An interesting idea to do a cooking session as a
form of the lady's program came from several
female participants as well as the wives who
accompany their husbands in the 61st IECM and
6th ARC of ICID. This activity was planned as an
exciting way to learn to cook traditional dishes
of Yogyakarta and Java.
This became interesting because the
participants will be invited to directly go into
the traditional markets, feel the process of
bargaining the price with the seller to get the
materials to be cooked. The event was actually
going to be a memorable experience as well as
during in Yogyakarta. It is planned that after
visiting a traditional market, participants will be
invited to the Kali Opak Resto located in
Prambanan, Yogyakarta. In this place, other
than to learn to cook directly with the chef from
the restaurant, participants also will be invited
to enjoy a rural atmosphere in the one part of
Yogyakarta which is still thick with the
traditional way of life. This event will be held
with a minimum of 3-5 existing participants who
register to the secretariat.
Mr. Soeyono : “I felt like I were
the youngest participant”
One of the senior participants who involved to
the YPF seminar was Mr. Soeyono. “I felt like I
were the youngest participant,” he said at the
coffee break. He also commented that the
papers presented in the seminar were so good.
He just added that for next, maybe the author
should make more complete conclusion about
the research.
But so far, compared with his era, he thought
that they were good enough. Mr. Yono said to
the young professionals to keep up the good
work, get involved to seminars and conferences,
and also learn more about the condition in the
field, not only working with their computers.
Sometime what happened in the field is so
much different with the theory they learned.
EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT
CROP MODELS FOR ESTIMATING
THE POTENTIALS TO INCREASE
THE WATER USE EFFICIENCY
UNDER CLIMATE VARIABILITY
The interest in techniques to improve water use
efficiency (WUE) such as controlled deficit
irrigation is rising due to the emergence of
strong competition for fresh water in order to
comply with the increased demand for food
worldwide. Additionally, the use of crop models
in conjunction with complex decision support
systems becomes more and more widespread
making it essential to reliably predict WUE as
ratio of water consumption and yield. The
objective of this paper is the assessment of the
problems that occur when certain crop models
are applied to maximize the WUE. The crop
models FAO-33, DAISY, and APSIM were used to
calculate the risk in yield reduction in view of
different sources of uncertainty, such as
climate, while a stochastic framework for
decision support for the planning of water
supply in irrigation was employed. The
stochastic framework consists of: (i) a weather
generator for simulating regional impacts of
climate change; (ii) a new tailor-made
evolutionary optimization algorithm for optimal
irrigation scheduling with limited water supply;
and (iii) the above mentioned models for
simulating water transport and crop growth in a
sound manner. The results present stochastic
crop water production functions (SCWPF) for
different crops which can be used as basic tool
to assess the impact of climate variability on the
risk for the potential yield. Case studies from
India, Oman, Malawi, and France are provided
to evaluate the differences in modeling water
stress and yield response for the different crop
models. (Sebastian Kloss, Niels Schütze, Sabine
Walser)
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