ASSET MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR WATER RESOURCES

INFRASTRUCTURE

1. Background of the Problem

Asset management in Indonesia has been implemented totally, either in corporation or

governmental sector. Unknowledgement or uncarefullness from most of company
management about the importance of asset management integratively, such as caused by the
minimum of information in literature, which discusses about this problem.

Reality in the field, shows many duties which is actually started from the wrong way of
managing in asset problem, so that it affects the disadvantage which is not little. For
example, the optimalization of resources can not be done maximally because it is not
identified clearly. It causes the difficult system to know whether an asset is ready to be
changed or proper to be used. The next question is that if it must be done, when is the exact
time to do that? and if it must replaced, Is it still with the same material or there is another
better alternative. The decision of those choices can only be answered exactly if we have
information or clear data about that asset.

That thing above should be balanced with the human resources as one of the “Non Tangible
asset” from one organization that has talent of managing tangible asset. It is really important
to know how management of asset can work in order to give the benefit for organization. It
includes the service how to handle the asset of siclus, started from the plan until the deleting
or asset and furthermore the information system supply of most asset management.

Based on the law number 7, 2007 about water resources of Indonesian Republic is the gift of
god, which gives the benefit for the wealth all people in Indonesia, it must be taken for the
conservation, related with infrastructure asset or river infrastructure.

The increase of population rate will also increase the building in all sectors and the need of
water. In fact, the water supply and the water resources quantity is constant, but the water
building or infrastructure of water which are available in bad condition, more old buildings
are not taken care and will be built more. These infrastructures do not have inventories which
are handled synthetically for example the condition of building, when it will be repaired,
rehabilitated or exchanged.

To prove the wealth, we need to keep the balance between the water supply with its use are
real need like for human. Environment and economics in good proper.

Actually, since 1970’s, the government has determined the way of managing asset,
meanwhile it is almost 3 decades. Asset management in Indonesia has not been changed into
a good one. Asset which is mentioned above in accountant terminology of government, is
called Barang Milik Negara (BMN/D). It means that the country owns the asset. Based on the
governmental law of Indonesian Republic number 6, 2006 about managing BMN/D, asset or
BMN/D is that the good got from APBN. In this present, the government are planning to the
related law with the country wealth management, the country wealth gets more meaning and
its area compared with BMN, because it includes the potensial natural resources and other
country wealth.

The management of infrastructure asset should fulfill the age of infrastructure or planned
infrastructure. If the plan age of river infrastructure is not appropriate or shorter than what
has been planned, so the other program will be interrupted and one program can be the
victim. In this research, it discusses about the strategies of Asset management for water
resources entitled “Asset Management for water resources infrastructure”

2. Asset Management

Bazin water resources management consists of the care of river infrastructure and
conservation of water resources which are solid from upper course of river to the downstream
of the sea. So that, the fall of rain which fall in Cathment area, will flow through the river and
the water buildings like the capacity controller of damaged river, the flood controller, the
measured building and the other building which is in along river, are the asset should be
managed and taken care.

The water building asset management generally in Indonesia until now are only inventories
and authority. It is caused by the lack of attentionand lack of labours who handle it. The asset
management program included in SIM (system information management) but in this present,
the SIM members get lessen because of another duty.

The beginning study done is the investigation of operation implementation and the care of
river controlled by water resources management department in Kuantan Indagiri and
Batanghari which are located in West Sumatera Province. For operation which includes the
water of river, river path, river building, and supported infrastructure.

The organization for the operation activity and the care of PSDA department consist of 20
people with 1 person from postgraduate of engineering, 4 persons from undergraduate of
engineering, D3 of engineering for 3 persons, 1 person from postgraduate out of engineering,
and 11 persons form senior high school.

In personal implementation is the person who takes the data from Hydrology and the
operation implementation and its care of which fund is from the government of Province.

The implementations to keep the river consist of:

- Preventive care is an activity done in order to keep the river to have its function or
building of river still has function optimally based on the planned work which includes
the routine care, step, and reparation

- Corrective care is the reparation for bad damaged or correction or completion to the less
that is in river building system without changing the purpose and the level of building
work which related to special reparation, rehabilitation, or rectification.

- Emergency care is done if the river or its infrastructure faces the fall or damaged that
happens suddenly so that it is needed to be handled soon.

- Rehabilitation care is if the function of the building equals to 0 and cared or repaired to
return its function into 100%

To manage and minimize (flood) risk effectively it is necessary to be able to identify hazards
and vulnerability in a consistent and reliable manner, to have good knowledge of structure
behavior in emergency situations, and to understand the potential consequences of failure in
 order to allow effective contingency planning for public safety (dams, weirs, sluices, flood,
embankments, dikes, tailings dams, etc.)

3. Statement of the Problem

One of the causes of low building care management performance is the bad management
policy and care system run by (Wang. H 2002). Reality in the field shows many cases which are
actually started by doing the mistakes in managing the asset, so that they affect to the
disadvantage which is not little.

As the example, in 2005, there was huge flood in Bangko river, located in Muara Labuh, west
sumatera province, Sabo Dam) and 9 ground sill were damaged so that they could not endure the
landslide of gravel. The gravel slid into the downstream and it damaged the sub dam and ground
sill so it caused the mound of sediment or stone in the middle of river which was higher than the
land, it caused the flood. This flood caused Sabo damaged, it did not flow the area, the houses
were covered by the stone, and isolated path.

The first week in November 2008, a rider was dead in Cawang, eastern Java because he tried to
avoid the hole in that region. At the end of 2008, when the rain fell, all riders faced the flood and
there were holes on the ground with the old tree which could fall every time.

On 30 may, 2009, there was disaster, it gave away Situ Gintung dam (in Tangerang, Banten
Province) that killed at least 199 persons with more material

To manage and minimize the risk effectively, it needs the knowledge deeply about the
characteristics of infrastructure (dams, weirs, sluices, flood embankments, dikes, tailing dams
etc.) in emergency situation and potential meaning of breaking the dam for the human safety
(investigation of extreme flood processes and uncertainty =IMPACT, 13 May 2002)

4. Objective of research

The objectives of this research are:

1. Recognize the norm of infrastructure management for water resources.

 2. To know the factors which influence the infrastructure management for water
resources.

3. Change climate which influences the capacity of infrastructure.

4. Arrange the strategic framework for managing the infrastructure of water

resources.

5. The purpose of research

It is in order to identify the factors which influence the low attention and asset reparation for
water resources infrastructure. Determine the main factor which influence and plan the
framework for caring the infrastructure asset.

6. Question of the research

• After the disaster has happened, why is the infrastructure stated as in bad condition or
less function?

• How can the norm of managing the infrastructure for water resources have function
so that it has benefit and increases the human life