When the wells dry, we know the worth of water

Bejamin Franklin (1706-1790) Poor Richard Almanac 1746

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water

Loran Eisley, The Immense Journey 1957,
Source: World Water Vision Making Water Everybodys Business, The Second World Water Forum, The Hague March 2000.

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Peoples Participation
Peoples participation is becoming the central issue of our time. The democratic transition in many developing countries, the collapse of many socialist regimes, and the worldwide emergence of peoples organization they are all part of a historic change, not just isolated events. Source: Human Development Report 1993 (After: The 2nd WWF, World Water Vision, The Hague, 2000)

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PREFACE
ince the beginning of 1970s there has been an increased attention in many parts of the developing world on the improvement of irrigation water management practices through the encouragement of participatory approach. Like many other developing countries, Indonesia since early 1980s has also been giving emphasis on the improvement of participatory irrigation management (PIM) having three major endeavors. Fist, turnover of small-scale irrigation schemes, less than 500 ha to the water users' association (WUAs). The second endeavor was the introduction of irrigation service fee (ISF) to the WUA for irrigation schemes larger than 500 ha. The third effort was the development of irrigated agriculture by involving the farmers through WUAs for the on-farm level water management. Learning from experiences on the implementation of PIM approach, the most important challenges has been the sustaining participation of the farmers in irrigation water management, especially under the situation where formal bureaucratically organized WUA, which in fact increasingly become inactive or fading away after some enthusiastic attempt instead of becoming sustainable. There had been an obvious tendency to make the participatory irrigation management approach exceedingly complicated. In fact, a number of experiences in traditional irrigated farming in Indonesia -- among others, Subak in Bali, Keujreun Blang in Aceh Special Province, Tuo Banda in West Sumatra, Raja Bondar in Nothern Sumatra, Mitra Cai in West Java, Dharma Tirto in Central Java, Tudang Sipulung in South Sulawesi, Mantri Siring in

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South Sumatra, Ili-ili in Lampung -- concluded that the simpler the approach the easier the farmer to participate and adopt the appropriate technicalities and the more sustainable would be the irrigated agricultural practices. The Subak irrigated agricultural practices in Bali, for instance, has been in existence and practiced from generation to generation for hundreds of years, and amazingly still continuously practiced today in modern Indonesia. Beginning with an extensive experience to interact with the Balinese transmigrant farmers in Southern Sumatra together with a number of technical visits to observe the Subak practices in Bali Island, the author has been inspired to prepare a brief note, facts and figures about Subak. The initial preparation of this booklet was in the form of a working paper presented in the Regional Workshop on Adaptation of Agricultural Production Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture in the ASEAN Region, ASEAN-ADPC in Bangkok Thailand, 10-14 January 1994. In the preparation of this booklet into the present format, the author is fully aware that the Subak practices are not necessarily replicable to other irrigated farming circumstances without adjustment with the underlying conditions locally. At least, however, it will give a comparative example about this undoubtedly successful and sustainable irrigated agricultural practices. The outline contents of this booklet include the basic principle of Subak approach, organizational patterns, water distribution and management, the Subak Assembly, financial source of operation and management of the system and other detailed example on technical as well as non technical aspects associated with the organizational implementation. The author is highly indebted to a number of individuals as well as institutions in preparing the manuscript, but at least to mention the Government of Bali Province particularly to the Provincial Irrigation Services and to a number of Subak organizations -- that the author cannot mention one by one -- for the

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generous preparation of data, information and direct interview with local Subak members during several field visits to Bali. A special gratitude addresses to Dr. Ir. Suyono Sosrodarsono (the former Director General of Water Resources, and later as the Minister of Public Works of the Republic of Indonesia) for his endless encouragement, inspiration and guidance to the author for writing every aspect of water resources development and management that could be documented for enriching the literature on irrigation in particular and in water resources in general. Thanks are also addressed to all colleagues and resource persons that I could not mention one by one, for every help, assistance, and encouragement during the preparation of the manuscript of this booklet. The last but not least, the author also appreciate the assistance of the staff of the Research Institute for Water Resources in helping to prepare this book. Without which, this work has never been materialized. A. Hafied A Gany
Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, July 21, 2001

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Rice terrace in Bali, an evidence of ancient irrigated agricultural practices with lowland paddy, are still perpetuated today in modern Indonesia

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 Maintaining the harmonious balance between water ecosystem, human and nature is one of the key principles of perseverance of Subak practice till today

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LIST OF CONTENT
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ABSTRACT ........................................................................................................ I. II. INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................... BASIC PRINCIPLE OF THE SUBAK ....................................................... 2.1 Autonomous and Religious Ties of the Subak ................................... 2.2 The Awig-Awig Principle of Internal Regulation Enforcement .....

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III. ORGANIZATIONAL PATTERNS OF THE SUBAK .......................... 3.1 General Principle of the Subak Membership .................................... 3.2 Obligation, Right and Responsibility of the Subak Members ........................................................................................... IV. WATER DISTRIBUTION AND MANAGEMENT ................................. 4.1 General Water Distribution Principle ................................................ 4.2 Subak Irrigation Structures ............................................................... 4.3 Water Measurement Device .............................................................. 4.4 Rotational Water Delivery and Cropping Schedule ........................ V. THE SUBAK ASSEMBLY ......................................................................... 5.1 Internal Coordination ......................................................................... 5.2 Coordination with External Organization ........................................

VI. FINANCIAL SOURCES AND MANAGEMENT .................................... 6.1 Financial Source ................................................................................. 6.2 Determination of Membership Fee .................................................... VII. CONCLUDING REMARKS ..................................................................... BIBLIOGRAPHY ...............................................................................................

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 The front gate of Subak Museum in Bali, where a number of historical evidences of Subak are kept.

The interior of the museum -- foreign visitors are frequently come to observe the evidences that describe the Subak practices in the old days

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ABSTRACT
he Subak system is an ancient irrigated-agricultural practices of the Bali Island, Indonesia. This system serves small-scale land holders where lowland paddy are mainly practiced. The exact date of Subak was not known, however, a most recent evidence suggested that the Subak system was believed to have been existed in 800 of Saka Calendar or in 882 AD. Learning from agricultural practices of the Subak system, it is apparent that the system has been established to meet the farmers' demands through a togetherness approach among it members. The main principle built into this system is based on the ability to maintain proper balance, and harmonious relationship between human and nature on reciprocal basis. The basic techniques are incorporated with the simplicity principles, so that every member of the community can adopt the technique without involving sophisticated learning process. Although the Subak system and its practices were invented long time ago, much of their techniques are still convertible to the modern practices that the people understand today. In fact, there is a reason to believe that the traditional agricultural practices adopted by the Subak organization were based on systematic observations. Today, despite the underlying irrigation development and management practices in modern Indonesia, there remains a lot more phenomenon of ancient agricultural practices -- demonstrated as an example by the Subak System -- that need to be uncovered in an attempt to contribute practical technicalities for implementing sustainable irrigated agricultural development under the smallfarming circumstances.

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 The Subak meeting where the principle of togetherness is practiced in democratic principle (usually taken place every 35 days)

Commitments on the "togetherness principle" are manifested in the consistent implementation of "mutual aid" for every kind of work needed for the community, including development and management of irrigation infrastructures

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SUBAK IRRIGATION SYSTEM IN BALI:

An Ancient Heritage of Participatory Irrigation Management in Modern Indonesia 1
I. INTRODUCTION The Subak system is an ancient irrigated-agricultural practice of the Bali Island, Indonesia (See the General Map of Bali Island overleaf). Like most irrigation schemes in Indonesia, the Subak system also serves small land holders where lowland paddy mono-culture are practiced in majority. The exact date of Subak was not known, however, some stone inscription indicated that the Subak system was known to be part of the Balinese life since hundreds of years ago. Some scholars estimated that the Subak system was established during the life of Markandea, a yogist from Java in the first century of the Saka Calendar (DPU Pengairan Propinsi Bali, 1972). According to R.Gory (in Gany, 1975), paddy irrigation has been practiced in Bali for more than one thousand years. The early monograph of R. Gory, stated that there are some evidences suggested that irrigation in Bali has been existed since 600 AD. Since that era, the farmers in Bali were very skillful in excavating and constructing irrigation tunnel across the high ridges or high lands. The more recent evidence suggested that the Subak system was believed to have been existed in 800 of Saka Calendar or in 882 AD.

1. The main substance of this booklet was prepared -- with some modification -based on a water management paper entitled: "Indonesia's Experience on Subak Irrigation System in Bali" which was presented by the author in the Regional Workshop on Adaptation of Agricultural Production Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture in ASEAN Region, jointly organized by The ASEAN Agricultural Development Planning Center (ADPC) and the ASEANCANADA Fund in Bangkok, Thailand, 10 - 14 January 1994.

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At that time, the term huma (or upland or rain-fed paddy field in Indonesian term known today) was also known in Bali to be similar to low-land paddy field. Another stone inscription which was found in Prinyan or Trunyan, dated back to 813 of the Saka Calendar or 891 AD, indicated that the makar aser which is known today as the pekaseh or water master, was in fact already known by the farmer during that ancient period (IPB, 1974:3). Another scholar, Dr. Wertheim, indicated that the Subak was believed to had been widely practiced since between 896 and 1022 AD. Another stone inscription also indicated that the Subak had already been established during the time of the King Marakata Panghodja Stanuttunggadewa in 994 Saka Calendar or 1022 AD (IPB, 1974:3). The most recent stone inscription indicated that the Subak was widely practiced in 1072 AD for organizing the farmers activities in conducting irrigation for paddy cultivation (Goris, in Dinas PU, 1972). According to Fukuda and Park (1976:24), one of the most obvious historical evidence of the Subak, in the form of ancient stone inscription, is still kept and preserved today at the Banjar Sengguan Pemejan Temple in the Klungkung District. Despite that the above evidences do not provide an exact date of the establishment of Subak, however, they did indicate that the system had been known and practiced in Bali since the ancient Hindu era. The word Subak itself according to the Purana inscription, dated back to 994 Saka Calendar or 1072 was believed to be originated from the term kesuwakan which is similar to the term kesubakan or presently referred to as the Subak. In the district of Tabanan, however, the Subak term was believed by the local people to be originated from the word seuwak which is literally meant as "a better water distribution system". 2 Apparently, no clear information what so far about the inventor, nor the initiator of the Subak. Some people believed that the initiative was instructed by the kings as they believed that the Subak system hold an important role in the economy of the kingdoms. Another scholars argued
2. The name of each individual Subak system usually given according to several criteria: (1) after the name of the nearest village; (2) after the water sources, such as Basangkara. Luwus, Joanyar; (3) after the nearest religious temple, such as Andeldewa; (4) according to the land development system such as Babakan Anyar and so on.

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that the first initiative of the establishment of Subak came from the initiative of the farming community themselves by initially clearing the forests for providing their immediate agricultural purposes on mutual aid basis. The resulted agricultural lands were then gradually supported by the king by providing irrigation systems. This indicates that the kings and the people had been involved actively in the activities of the Subak since the ancient era of the Balinese kingdoms. II. BASIC PRINCIPLE OF THE SUBAK APPROACH 2.1 Autonomous and Religious Ties of the Subak Practice The Subak employs a principle of independence and religiously-tied practices in managing irrigation systems under the circumstances irrigation based agricultural endeavors. The general philosophy of the Balinese aderes to the Trihitakarana principle which believes that happiness can only be fulfilled when the Creator the people and the nature are confined in harmony. The Subak members, thus, establish and maintain irrigation infrastructures based on this philosophy through mutual cooperation without disregarding the judicious and fair dispersion of obligation, rights, and responsibilities amongst their members. These activities are implemented through the mutually agreed regulatory instruments which is referred to as the Awig-Awig.3 This regulatory instrument is not only addressing the irrigation circumstances, but in fact, giving also more comprehensive concerns with all agricultural aspects, including crop production, farmers' organization or institution, financial circumstances, facility maintenance and other similar rural development activities. The law or regulatory instrument of the Subak is therefore established to accommodate or to deal with every aspect of life and/or development which are prescribed by the organization on consensus basis. 2.2 The Awig-Awig Principle of Internal Regulation Enforcement
3. The Awig-Awig is a Balinese term, which is generally meant as the formal regulatory instrument or law of an organization or group of community members. This law is often referred to, in some other places, as Sime or Pasura.

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Despite the fact that the general approach of the Subak is based on sensible personal consensus or "togetherness principle" amongst the members, however, the Awig-Awig regulation is still required by the Subak members for enforcing the regulation agreed upon by the members of the organization. Basically, the Awig-awig is developed by means of bottom-up approach,4 to promote democratic, flexible, sensible, fair and organizationbound regulation toward secure farming undertakings in the entire administrative area of each Subak organization. Each Subak system owns an independent Awig-Awig regulation that applies to the members within a distinct physical boundary of the Subak irrigation system. In general, the written or the unwritten (memorized) regulation prescribed by the Awig-Awig are concerned with: (1) duty of the members to cultivate paddy in accordance with the agreed schedule; (2) obligation of the members to perform mutual aid for maintaining irrigation facilities; (3) means of settling disputes or conflicts among the members; (4) obligation to participate in the ritual or religious offering ceremonies in the temples. In most cases, about 90% of the members are happy with the regulations and submissively obeyed them (Gany and Faisol, 1975). There are few cases, however, where the disobedient members were punished or fined in accordance with the kinds of violations they committed. III. ORGANIZATIONAL PATTERNS OF THE SUBAK From the point of view of land plot, the term Subak refers to as a group of paddy field blocks which are obtaining irrigation from the same water source. These farm blocks are organized together into one management unit which is called Subak organization. The Subak has a full autonomy to manage its activities through the establishment of its board of organization, by law, financial mechanism, regulatory instruments, and
4. Most of the Awig-Awig clauses are established on the basis of consensus among the members themselves from the grass-root level in each Subak administrative authority. The Local Government gives the farmers freedom to decide whatever they think appropriate. The Awig-Awig Regulations were previously administered by means of local consensus. But recently, they prescribe the regulation in the form of written text or some kind of guide book.

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enforcement of sanction to the members without allowing involvement or interference of other external organizations. The main principle of organizational responsibility of the Subak is to manage irrigation implementation among the members themselves such that each of the individual member has equal, transparent and fair treatment for the sake of their goal toward mutual prosperity. The Subak organization also has the responsibility to preserve the watershed environment, to conduct proper maintenance of irrigation infrastructures, farm roads, determination of cropping patterns, land preparation and crop scheduling. Beside, Subak also has a responsibility to manage the harmonious relationship with external organizations such as local government agencies concerned. This includes the responsibility of conveying the members' opinion, suggestions and/or comments to the related authorities. Geographically, the average area covered by one Subak organization is about 100 ha, depending upon the magnitude of the area covered by the irrigation command area of the Subak system. However, due to individual characteristic of the topographical condition, one Subak organization may covers an area in the range of 10 to 800 ha. Under the very special condition, one independent Subak area, however, may cover an area even smaller than 10 ha, for instance, Subak Belimbing only covers an area of 3.545ha while Subak Aseman covers an area of 799.175ha (Gany and Faisol, 1975:10). For allowing effective organizational control, the large Subak system usually, but not necessarily, sub-divided into two or more blocks. These blocks are referred to as Tempekan in the district of Bangli, Gianyar and Klungkung, while in the District of Buleleng they are referred to as Banjaran or Layakan, Munduk in the district of Badung and Arahan in the district of Jembrana. The boundary area of each individual Subak is usually formed by natural creeks, small valleys, small rivers or village roads. In the entire Bali Island, there are 1,410 independent Subak systems. Each of the Subak scheme is equipped with distinct irrigation infrastructures, farmers organization and awig-awig regulation (see Table-1 for further details). From this table, one could see that there were very little changes of physical features of the Subak through time -comparing the data of 1971 and 1979. This explains that the Subak practice has already been so sustainable in terms of organizational, social, cultural

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The famous "Barong" as one of the cultural identities of Bali

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The Subak members which are referred to as the Krama Subak, are mostly elect their own representative by means of democratic principle in terms of majority rule. The elected president of the Subak is called Kelihan Subak 5, who is responsible for organizing the implementation of the dayto-day activities of the Subak organization. In performing their responsibilities, the Kelihan Subak, in general, are assisted by one or more assistant(s) called Kesinom -- particularly for carrying out the water distribution and routine inspection of irrigation networks. The Subak member who is responsible for disseminating or delivering information to each Subak member is called Juru Arah or Saya. The Juru Arah or Saya also works to assist the Subak (the basic structural organization of the Subak presented in Figure-1). From the point of view of organizational coordination and mechanism, the highest coordinating authority in the Subak organization is called the Sedahan Agung. The Sedahan Agung (which is also elected by the Subak representatives) is responsible for supervising the entire Subak organization in one District (Regency) or Kabupaten of the local government administration. In some cases, for instance in Buleleng District, the Sedahan Agung is elected from civil servant who is actually responsible to the Bupati (Regent) on the routine coordinative basis. This has been applied since 1968 (IPB, 1974:7). For coordinating the Subak groups (Subak federation), the Sedahan Agung has the following responsibilities: 1. To manage and to arrange the general water allocation for the entire district administration. 2. To solve the problems pertaining to the Subak circumstances that cannot be solved by the Subak members themselves. 3. To collect land taxes.

5. The Kelihan Subak in Some parts of Bali are also known as Penyarikan, Pemekel or Klian Gede. They are nominated for election based upon a number of selection
criteria among others are: (1) to be a member of the Subak Community, (2) to be literate, (3) to be willing to have the position, (4) not to be engaged in any other occupation, (5) having previous experience in the Subak irrigated agriculture, and (6) to be capable of organizing the Subak organization and its related circumstances.

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To maintain proper coordination among the Subak organizations within the Kabupaten (Regency) and/or between the Subak organizations and the local government agencies or other external organizations. 5. To organize traditional ceremonies related to the Subak activities in the entire district government administration. The administrative area of the Sedahan Agung6 varies from District to District in Bali, depending upon several aspects such as topographical condition, administrative boundary, watershed boundary, locally specific condition and so on. See the general illustration of administrative area of the Sedahan Agung portrayed in Table-1.

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3.1 General Principle of the Subak Membership Basically, the Subak membership is categorized into two kinds according to the land ownership status: (1) land owner; and (2) land tenure -- i.e. the farmer who cultivate the land on behalf of the land owner. Formerly, the Subak membership does not specify rigidly, because most of the farmers within the administrative area were cultivating the land for themselves. Today, therefore, the ones who directly cultivate the land are deserved the privilege of the Subak membership.7 From the point of view of membership obligation, the Subak consists of three categories: 1. The members who are directly involved in irrigation activities of the Subak. These members are usually organized themselves in the so called sekeha yeh (water user association), also referred to as the krama pekaseh. The members who are not directly involved in the farming activities. Instead, these type of members -- usually referred to as pengampel -are obliged to finance the farming expenses in accordance with the mutually agreed Subak regulation. The Subak members who are not required to work directly on the irrigated farming activities. This type of member refers to as leluputan, usually consists of religious priests8 who are responsible for

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For the case the land owner who resides in the remote town and does not involve directly with the activities of the Subak, all of the farming obligations of the Subak membership are shared with the land owner on mutual consensus or agreement. The mutual obligations are varied from place to place. In general, however, the land owners are responsible of paying for all of the expenses related to the provision of irrigation infrastructures and facility maintenance, while the labor requirements are contributed by the land tenurer. Despite the fact that the majority of the people in Bali are Hinduism, the Subak members who are belonged to other religions such as, Moslem, Christian etc. are in fact not constrained by any difficulties in conducting the Subak

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performing the religious ceremonies of the Subak organization. The Subak membership terminates when that particular member is no longer cultivating the land for one reason or another. In case of death, the membership will be transferred to the children or descendants. If the land is sold, the membership will be transferred to the new owner -- so long as the new owner cultivates the land on his own. 3.2 Obligation, Right and Responsibility of the Subak Members In general, the obligations, rights and responsibilities of the Subak members are consisted of three main aspects: 3.2.1 Subak Infrastructures and Rural Facilities 1. Construction and maintenance as well as rehabilitation of irrigation infrastructures such as weirs, irrigation structures, canals, water measurement devices and so on. 2. Construction and maintenance as well as reconstruction of Subak and rural facilities such as farm roads, temples, subak assembly facilities and other facilities for ritual and religious ceremonies. 3.2.2 Socio-Economic Concerns 1. To obey the subak regulation, both the written Awig-awig and non documented norms. 2. To implement the consensus resulted by the Subak assembly (meeting). 3. To implement the executive order of the board of organization. 4. To undertake general election for determining the members of Board of Organization. 5. To attend the Subak Assembly (both periodical and incidental ones). 6. To maintain an appropriate water utilization.

activities. The non-Hindu members are mostly supporting the ritual or religious ceremonies, though they are not participated directly in person.

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7. To pay for the membership fees and or other fees related to the Subak activities, fines etc. in terms of money or in kind. 8. To pay the land taxes or other fees stipulated by the local government authority. 9. To take precautious action for preventing irrigation water from theft or illegal off-takes, and 10. To undertake mutual aid for pest control. 3.2.3 Concerns with the Religious and Ritual Ceremonies For the Subak organization, the religious as well as the ritual practices are considered to be the very significant determinant factors affecting of the irrigated agricultural implementation. Some of the religious and ritual practices are conducted individually, others are conducted together. Among the religious and ritual ceremonies that are currently practiced are: 1. Welcoming ceremony for the initial commencement of irrigation distribution or mapag toya which is conducted together every year at the beginning of the planting season. 2. Individual ceremony at the beginning of land preparation or ngedagin. The commencement of this ceremony is determined and conducted by each individual member in accordance with his preferable time allocation. 3. The Pangwiwit ceremony, which is conducted by the pekaseh and the religious priests as well as the local leaders at the first commencement of seed-bed preparation. 4. The Nandur ceremony which is conducted individually at the time the transplanting is to be started. 5. The ceremony for preventing the attack of plant diseases or neduh. This ceremony is conducted by involving all of the Subak members, especially when a general indication of pest attacked has become apparent significantly. In this kind of ceremony, each Subak member will obtain the so called air-suci or the holy water, which is utilized by each of them for conducting individual ceremony on his own farm.

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The Pecaruan ceremony which is conducted to prevent the plant disease from happening. This ceremony is conducted together at the period of about one month growth of the planted paddy. 7. The Nyambutin ceremony conducted by each individual member at about one and a half month growth the paddy. 8. The Biayakukung ceremony conducted by individual Subak at the maturity stage of the planted paddy. 9. The Miseh ceremony is conducted at the maturity stage of the paddy, just before harvest. 10. The Ngusaha ceremony which is conducted at about 10 days before harvest, particularly for the main crop season. This ritual ceremony is conducted by the whole Subak members, which is meant to express gratitude to the Almighty God the Creator for having endowment with good crop. Prior to the commencement of this ceremony, no one allowed to start the harvest. 11. The Mantenin ceremony, conducted by individual in respecting the generosity of the Almighty God the Creator, few days after the crop has been kept in the household storage. 3.2.4 Membership Rights Beside obligations and responsibilities, the Subak members also have privileges for being involved in the organization. The membership rights include among others: 1. To have an appropriate irrigation allocation proportional to the size of agricultural land he has. 2. To elect and to be elected as the member of board of Subak. 3. To convey his opinion, suggestion and proposal in the general assembly. 4. To be represented by other person in conducting the activities related to his membership. 5. To provide information concerning violation of the Subak regulation to the Board of Subak and therefore, to be deserved of having part

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of the fine money -- in accordance with the provision stipulated by the Subak regulation -- that must be paid by the violator. To be deserved of having part of the Subak property -- in accordance with the underlying regulation. To have judicious and fair treatment from the Subak Board of Organization.

IV. WATER DISTRIBUTION AND MANAGEMENT 4.1 General Water Distribution Principle The majority of irrigation areas operated by the Subak organization consist of simple irrigation with simple structures and appurtenance facilities. However, the Central Government in the last decade has provided some technical assistance for improving the infrastructures of irrigation system operated under the Subak organization. This technical assistance is particularly provided for the large scale irrigation schemes. Under the Subak system, the water distribution system is conducted by the farmers themselves through the elected representatives. The water distribution pattern is based on a certain water requirement consideration as the following: (1) the water delivery is assigned to the farm land on plot-by-plot basis; (2) each individual plot with a seed requirement of one tenah of paddy seed 9 per plot, is called tek-tek unit area10; each area covers by a farm plot of one tek-tek unit is measured by a traditional standard of water measurement device. 4.2. Subak Irrigation Structures To provide a complete series of water management practices, The Subak
9. The farm plot water requirement is determined by the amount of seeds of paddy that are planted in a certain size of farm plot -- refers to as sesukat which is called Tek-Tek. The amount of seed requirement for each te-tek unit is called tenah which is comparable to about 25 to 30 of grain paddy.

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system in general is equipped with every irrigation facilities required to serve for the farm plot. The irrigation structures are mostly of the simple ones -- temporary construction using the locally available materials such as timber, bamboo, coconut log etc. -- but most important is that the irrigation facilities are capable of serving each farm plot effectively. The structural layout of a Subak scheme varies from place to place but in general each scheme consists at least a number of irrigation structures as follows: 4.2.1 Empelan or Diversion Weir Empelan is a kind of temporarily constructed weir -- usually made of log of coconut tree or bamboo, or stone that are put together. Some empelans are made of soil embankment so simple that they are strong enough to hold water at a certain elevation so it can be conveyed to the farm-land by means of gravity flow. In some cases, the structures are equipped with spillways that are built at suitable location, for example at the massive rock layer, cliff and so on. This type of irrigation structure is mostly constructed at the river site, otherwise at the site of water source. 4.2.2 Telabah (canal) and Aungan (tunnel) Conveyance canal for irrigation is called telabah, while irrigation tunnel is known as aungan. These facilities are constructed by the subak members themselves on the mutual-aid basis. Excavation and construction of tunnels are undertaken by manual labor with very simple equipment and with traditional techniques learned from generation to generation. The telabah is divided into several types according to the function and the scheme layout: 1. Telabah Gede or main canal extends from the river. 2. Telabah Pemaron or secondary canal, branched from the telabah gede. 3. Telabah or tertiary canal, branched from secondary canal. 4. Telabah Cerik or quarternary canal. 5. Kekalen or conveyance canal which serves the farm ditch. This type of small canal is connected with the tali-kunda -- which conveys water

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directly to the farm block or paddy plot. 6. Tali- kunda is the smallest canal that deliver irrigation water to each individual paddy field on plot-to-plot basis. 4.2.3 Supplementary Structures For conveying the water acrossed the existing roads, canals, valleys, creeks or small rivers -- including the necessity to conduct appropriate irrigation operation, a Subak irrigation system is equipped with supplementary structures. These structures are among others: (1) Abangan or aqueduct; (2) Jengkuwung or large culvert; (3) Keluwung or small culvert; (4) Petaku or drop structure; (5) Pepiyuh or sipillway; (6) Telupus or siphon; and (6) Titi or small crossing bridge (PRIS, Bali, 1983:5-8). 4.2.4 Pemaron or Diversion Structure The water distribution is carried out by making use of diversion structures which consist of several types: (1) Tembuku Aya or main diversion structure; (2) Tembuku Pemaron or secondary diversion structure; (3) Tembuku Gede or tertiary diversion structure; and (4) Tembuku Cerik or quaternary diversion from which the water flows to the paddy field through the kekalen. Like other structures for Subak system, these diversion structures are also built with temporary structures, taking the advantage of the locally available materials. 4.2.5 Telabah Pengutangan or Drainage Channel Since the farm level irrigation distribution practice of the Subak organization is conducted by means of plot-to-plot conveyance method, the tail-plots must be equipped with facility to convey the excess water to natural drains. For this purpose a Subak irrigation system is facilitated with telabah pengutangan or drainage channel which are eventually mounted to the main drains (pakung), otherwise, to the natural river streams. For further details some examples of the features of the Subak irrigation schemes are presented in Figure-2 and Figure-3.

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4.2.6 Buildings for Religious and Ritual Ceremonies For conducting the religious and ritual ceremonies -- which are among the important practices of the Subak organization -- a number of buildings and facilities are provided. These buildings and facilities are: (1) Pura Bedugul or small temple which is built for each diversion structure; (2) Pura Ulun Suwi or temple for communal use within one or more Subak areas receiving water from the same water source; and (3) Pura Ulun Danu or temples that are built for each lake or reservoir such as Lake Batur, Lake Beratan, Lake Buyan, Lake Tamblingan, which are considered to be the source of prosperity of the Balinese people.

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 An example of prefabricated farm level diversion box -- it may be made of concrete block, masonry wall, timber or bamboo

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TEMPLE TEMPORARY DIVERSION STRUCTURE

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Fig 3 : TYPICAL IRRIGATION STRUCTURAL NETWORKS OF A SUBAK SCHEME

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4.3 Water Measurement Device To provide reliable water distribution for each farm plot, a standard water measurement device is installed for each individual farm plot in accordance with the size of the plot in terms of tek-tek unit. Thus, each of the tenah seed unit is translated into tek-tek unit of farm area, the unit area is further converted into a certain magnitude of water measurement. This water requirement unit is also called tek-tek. The water measurement device is usually made of a piece of timber or log, cut at the desired length with a cut-off grove for measuring the water flow. The size of the cut-off grove of one tek-tek unit, for instance, is measured in terms of ordinary human finger thickness, about four fingers width and one finger depth, which is comparable to about 8 cm width and 2 cm depth (see Figure-4 for illustration). For larger farm plots, the size of cut-off is determined by multiplying the single tek-tek standard illustrated above, proportional to the size of the command area. Thus, one tenah of seed or one tek-tek unit area

One tek-tek unit of water flow

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will get one tek-tek unit requirement of water. The water requirement for larger area is served in terms of multiplication of the one tek-tek water flow standard. In practice, this simple water measurement procedure is widely implemented by the Subak water users' association without ever being tempted to use more water than they are actually deserved. The Subak members are bound together in some sort of traditional entity or feeling of togetherness in the society. In addition, they are tied up with social as well as religious norms so intensely that taking an excessive amount of water makes no sense to them. 4.4 Rotational Water Delivery and Cropping Schedule During the water scarcity in the dry season, the water distribution for Subak members is conducted on rotational basis. The rotational water distribution system is conducted on mutual consensus. All water disputes are settled down with judicious arrangement among the Subak members themselves. The cropping schedule is also determined by the Subak members themselves by clearly stating the water distribution obligation. In the determination of cropping pattern and water delivery schedule, for instance, they adopt three cropping -- and hence water distribution -- schedules: (1) the Ngulu; (2) the Maongin; and (3) the Ngesep. The Ngulu means water distribution from the head, which is referred to as the water delivery for the crop rotation which starts earlier (between November and December). The Maongin means water delivery from the neck, which is referred as to the second crop rotation starts two months later (between January and February). The Ngesep means late, which is referred to as the third crop rotation which is implemented between March and April. In practice, this crop rotation is very effective for managing the staggered planting date, so that the crops do not consume water simultaneously, and hence the water constraint can be minimized. In comparison with the most recent irrigated agricultural techniques -- that the people knows to day, it is quite amazing to observe the fact that the traditional agricultural practices under the Subak system are perfectly confirmed with the current (modern) irrigation application for

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low-land paddy. For example, the field water requirement which has long been practiced by the traditional Subak is perfectly comparable with the most recent calculation on the ultimate field water distribution demand for low-land paddy. In addition, the modern agricultural research has demonstrated that the occasional necessity of 24 hours per day water distribution is recommended for optimum growth of paddy during the early growing stage. As the matter of fact, this sustainable water management practice has long been implemented by the Subak farmers in Bali through generations. V. THE SUBAK ASSEMBLY 5.1 Internal Coordination Every Subak system prescribes a regular meeting among the members (usually conducted every 35 days) to discuss all aspects concerning their farming circumstances such as, operation and maintenance of irrigation infrastructures, maintenance of temple and other rural as well as public facilities, to solve the underlying irrigation distribution problems, to settle disputes and so on. In such a meeting, discussions are mostly focused on the most immediate and urgent issues, such as monthly working schedule for the following month, acceptance of new membership, membership contribution, financial status, ritual ceremonies and so on. Apart from this routine meeting, incidental meeting are also advocated for discussing and overcoming the urgent problems such as emergency works for improvement and repairs of irrigation network facilities, pest or disease attacks, emergency action for food relief and other such matters. Depending upon the urgency of the problem to solve, the meeting of the Subak may be conducted in the form of general assembly or involving the complete team or selective members of the board of Subak only. The incidental meeting of the Board of Subak usually conducted at the residence of the Pekaseh. This meeting usually conducted one day prior to the general assembly of the Subak members, discussing about the programs that are going to be implemented.

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 Mutual aid for Installation of "tek-tek" water measurement devices -- center, coconut log tek-tek in operation; lower, bamboo tek-tek device in operation

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The general assembly for the members consists of routine and incidental (on demand) ones. In most cases the routine assembly is conducted every 35 days. This meeting, which is usually conducted at the pura bedugul, 11 must be attended by all of the members. In the routine meeting, the discussion usually concerning the internal circumstances such as the following: (1) replacement of Juru arah; (2) routine announcement of the violators of the awig-awig and execution of fine; (3) financial circumstances; (4) routine maintenance of Subak facilities; (5) agricultural circumstances, crop maintenance, credit facility etc.; (6) ritual and religious ceremonies; (7) suggestions, comments, proposals, recommendations of the members; and (8) announcement concerning instructions to the members for implementing the member's obligations and other organizational responsibilities.

11. Tek-tek is Balinese word, which is literally meant as to cut off one thing into small pieces.

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5.2 Coordination with External Organization For discussing the external cooperation or for solving the external problems related to other subak or other organizations, the meeting is usually attended or coordinated by the Sedahan or the Sedahan Agung for the meeting related to the agencies or organization at the Regency, District (Kabupaten) level. Depending upon the context and urgency, the Subak assembly may be conducted through coordination of other government agencies such as Regional or District Agricultural Extension Services, Provincial or District Irrigation Services, Local Government Authorities and so on. For further details, see the schematic chart of the interagency coordination of the Subak which is presented in Figure-5. In this chart, other line organizations and agencies give the necessary technical guidance to Subak according to the immediate demands without direct intervention to the Subak -- as autonomous organization.

VI. FINANCIAL SOURCES AND MANAGEMENT 6.1 Financial Sources As far as the financial circumstances are concerned, the Subak rural agricultural organization relies all of its financial sources from the members. The magnitude of the membership fee is collected proportional to the size of agricultural land owned by the Subak members. This membership fee can be paid either in cash or in kind. The Subak funds may also come from penalties, fine money, labor contribution for performing operation and maintenance of irrigation infrastructures, temples and other public facilities. All of the funds collected are kept by the Subak chief, while the utilization of that fund -- for instance, for the routine maintenance of irrigation system or for financing traditional or religious ceremonies -- is subject to approval of the members through the Subak assembly prior to implementation.

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An example of building facility for Subak assembly

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 A man and his wife undertake rice transplanting on their farm plot -- a usual practice

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 A women cleaning the threshed grain paddy at the farm -- before sun drying

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INTERAGENCY COORDINATION OF SUBAK

BUPATI (REGENT)

CHIEF IRRIGATION SERVICES

SEDAHAN AGUNG

CHIEF, AGRI - EXT SERVICES

OTHER RELATED AGENCIES

SUB-DISTRICT LEVEL

SEDAHAN

SUB-DISTRICT AGRIC. EXTENSION

DITCH TENDER

PEKASEH

FIELD EXTENTION

KELIHAN TEMPEK

KESIKOM JURU ARAH

KERANA SUBAK

NOTES : LINE OF COMMANDING LINE OF COORDINATION LINE OF GUIDANCE AUTONOMOUS ORGANIZATION

Fig. 5 : SCHEMATIC CHART OF INTERAGENCY COORDINATION OF SUBAK

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6.2 Determination of Membership Fee The magnitude of the membership fee varies from place to place, depending upon several aspects including size of land ownership, location, crop production, accessibility and other location specific. Determination of the membership fee is based upon the general consensus of the Subak assembly, both in terms of it kind and its magnitude. The followings are several kinds of membership fees: 6.2.1 Incidental Membership Fee This incidental fee usually levied to the member in the form of cash to cover the non-routine financial requirement, for instance, for incidental repairs of irrigation structures, recovery of damages caused by local disaster such as land slides or floods. The magnitude of this fee usually determined by the nature of the required works divided equally or proportionally to the members, based on consensus. 6.2.2 Periodical Membership Fee This type of membership fee may be paid in cash or in kind, but in most cases, the payments -- especially after harvest -- are paid in kind. There are several types of periodical membership fees: 1. The Pengoot or Pengampel, which is considered to be the payment in lieu of the annual service charge for the members who could not undertake the mutual works, they are responsible for. In some cases, for instance in the Kabupaten Badung, the active member or ngoot ngayah is not levied with this type of fee. For agricultural lands consisted of more than one tek-teks the fees are levied to the members who are not active participants (ngoot ngutang). Part of this collected fee usually spent for paying the active members or for expenditures related to the ritual or religious ceremonies. 2. The Sarin Tahun is a form of periodical membership fee which is paid in kind -- generally in the form of grain paddy -- immediately at each harvest season. Some Subak collect this type of fee on annual basis to finance the ritual and religious ceremonies, others prescribe bi-annual

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collection at the harvest seasons of the main as well as the secondary crops. The magnitude of this contribution varies from place to place. The Subak Pengembangan in Tabanan District, for instance, a paddy field with the unit size of 500 square meters has to contribute a so called sarin tahun at about 1 kg of grain paddy per year (about 20kg of grain rice/ha/year). Membership fee in term of compensation or incentive for the member of Subak Board of Organization. Some Subaks obliged their members to pay for a special form of membership fees on top of the Pengoot, Sarin Tahun and incidental fees. This, for example applies in the Tamblang and Pangkung Gondang of the District of Jembrana. In this areas such a special contribution is collected in the form of grain rice at an amount of 4 kg for each paddy field with a unit size of less than 0.75ha, which obtains water from a single water off-take gate. For the paddy field with the size of more than 0.75ha and obtains water from a single water source, the paddy contribution is determined by the Subak assembly -- proportional to the size of the paddy field in questioned.

6.2.3 Mechanism of Internal Financial Auditing In most Subak organization the responsibility to conduct financial account is entrusted to the Pekaseh, helped by one or more financial assistants, for collecting fees, book keeping and so on. This type of financial account is mostly carried out in a very simple book keeping system. The members usually rely the annual or periodical settlement of account to the Pekaseh and his assistants (IPB, 1974:22-23). Annual planning for routine works is usually prepared by each Subak authority on the basis of mutual agreement and consensus. However, this type of annual working schedule is rarely prepared in written format. Financial disbursement schedule is rarely prepared by the board of organization. Budgeting system is mostly conducted on the basis of "balanced budgeting system". For financing the emergency works, the members are obliged to contribute extra fees on the basis of the amount of money required for the works.

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6.2.4 Execution of Sanction for the Violator For enforcement of the Subak regulation or Awig-awig, each Subak Board of Organization has a prerogative obligation to execute the prescribed sanctions. The sanctions are generally executed in the order of importance as: (1) remainder or warning; (2) penalty or fine; (3) temporary cease of irrigation water allocation; (4) to sell by auction the violator's property; (5) withdrawal of the privilege of the Subak membership. Penalty for violators varies from Subak to Subak, depending upon the nature of organizational regulation. One Subak prescribes the penalty in cash or in kind, others insist the violator to pay in labor in lieu of money. As far as the violations of the awig-awig regulation is concerned, they are mostly associated with the cases as follows: (1) absence or late participating in the meeting; (2) crop damage due to unguided cattle grazing; (3) late land preparation for regular cultivation; (4) water theft; (5) inability to comply with the executed penalty; (6) absence in attending mutual aid obligation; (7) damages of farm ditches, canals levees, irrigation facilities or crop due to carelessness. VII. CONCLUDING REMARKS Learning from agricultural practices demonstrated by the Subak system in the Island of Bali, it is apparent that the irrigated agricultural practices has been developed to meet the farmers evolutionary demands and circumstances through a long range practice, so that the system could sustain, without major changes, from generation to generation. The main principle built into this system is based on the ability to regulate the suitable techniques, time, space and environment in order to meet the livelihood of the people through "harmonious-togetherness" principle. The underlying approach is based on the ability of maintaining a proper balance, and the ability of acquiring harmonious relationship between human and nature on reciprocal basis. The basic techniques are incorporated with the simplicity principles, so that every members of the community are able to adopt and/or apply the technique without involving sophisticated learning process. Despite the fact that the Subak system and its practices were

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invented and evolved long time ago, it is quite amazing to know that much of their techniques are still convertible and/or adaptable to the modern practices that the people understand today. The more we can comprehend the traditional irrigated-agricultural practices the more we learn about their technicalities. In fact, there is a reason to believe that the traditional agricultural practices adopted by the Subak organization were based on systematic observations. Today, in modern Indonesia, there remains a lot more phenomenon of the ancient heritage of participatory irrigated agricultural practices, adhered to the Subak, that need to be uncovered in terms of scientific explanation.

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The basic techniques of Subak are associated with the simplicity principles, so that every member of the community -- with the equal rights between man and woman -- can adopt the technique without involving sophisticated learning process

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mr. A. Hafied A. Gany, was born in a Regency Capital town of Watan Soppeng, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, on November 10, 1944. He started his professional career in the Water Resources Development and Management as a construction supervisor of water resources projects after completing his civil engineering undergraduate in Bandung in 1967. From 1968 to 1981, Mr. Gany had a series of experiences working in the water resources design, construction, Operation and Maintenance, and field research and experimental activities in the Irrigation Based "Transmigration" Settlement in Southern Sumatra. In 1979, he obtained M.Sc. degree from the University of Southampton, U.K. He was assigned as the project manager of the Construction Guidance Service Center CGSC Project, at the same time as chief of the Research Station for Hydraulic Structures of the Ministry of Public Works in Bekasi, West Java from 1985 to 1989. In 1993 he obtained an interdisciplinary Ph.D. studies majoring Engineering, Economics, Sociology, and Demography at the University of Manitoba, Canada, with commendation. In 1995, he had been assigned as the Director of Water Management and Conservation, Ministry of Public Works till 1999. He has been assigned as Deputy Director General of Water Resources Development -- DGWRD 1999; Assistant Deputy of Water Resources Protection and Conservation, State Ministry of Public Works November 1999, and in 2000 as the Director of the Research Institute for Water Resources, Ministry of Settlement and Regional Infrastructures till now. He has been the Secretary General of the Indonesian National Committee of International Commission of Irrigation and Drainage (INACID) from 1993 to 1999. As the Vice President of INACID for International Affairs from 1999 till now. He is the Indonesian Committee Members for Professional Civil Engineers Assessor since 1995. Chairman of the Indonesian Chapter of International Networks on Participatory Irrigation Management (INPIM) since 1996; and member of Board of Director of INPIM International till present. He was awarded by the Minister of Public Works a 20-year honor for an outstanding services at the Ministry of Public Works in 1988. Presidential Award for 30 years distinguished services to the Government of Indonesia, August 1996. Presidential Award for an outstanding working achievement, December 1996.and Presidential Award for National Development Contribution, August 1999. He can be contacted at [email protected] or personal website at www.hafied.cjb.net.

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