OFFICIAL REPORT EBA FIELDWORK

“The practices on water resource management in a gradient polluted of Citarum river,

West Java Province, Indonesia”

Institut Teknologi Bandung, 13-22 Desember 2015

1. Backgroud

The Citarum river basin is an important water resource in Indonesia. The basin

is the most strategic river basin in the country, with a population of almost 28 million

people in 2004 (more than 72% of the provincial total). There are three hydroelectric

dams (Saguling, Cirata, and Jatiluhur Dam) located at the upper section of the basin

producing an aggregate of 1,400 megawatts. The total area of irrigated agricultural

land is over 400,000 km2. The Citarum River system also supplies 80% of Jakarta’s

raw water (from Jatiluhur Dam). The water resources of the rivers and groundwater

systems in the basin are critical to social and economic development of the country.

They are essential for urban and industrial development (particularly in Jakarta and

Bandung areas) including export industry, agricultural production through major

irrigation systems, rural water supplies, electricity generation though hydropower, and

fisheries.

While the water resources of the Citarum River Basin are relatively abundant

(on average), competition for these resources has increased significantly over the past

20 years leading to a situation of acute water stress and depletion of aquifers in some

places. Rapid urbanization has significantly increased the exposure to flood risk and

generation of pollution. Environmental degradation has reached a level that

compromises public health and livelihoods, particularly for the urban and rural poor,

and incurs additional economic and financial costs related to the source of bulk water

supply and its treatment. There has been a lot of research and discussions on

improving the condition of Citarum River Basin, especially the pollution problem, but

so far there has been no significant improvement. Since the area is so large, it

involves a variety of stakeholders, making conflicts among their interests in the river

basin very severe and complex.

Pollution of surface water in the Upper Citarum basin (u/s Saguling Dam) has

reached an alarming stage. BOD content at all locations in upper Citarum is relatively

high, and ranges from 11 mg/l to 36 mg/l. The highest BOD content of 36 mg/l was

observed at Curug Jompong at the inlet of the Saguling Dam. Concentration of

pathogenic bacteria, dissolved oxygen, ammonia, some heavy metals currently exceed

water quality standards, especially in the dry season. In the downstream of Jatiluhur,

the water quality situation is less severe than upstream of Saguling Dam, but the area

along West Tarum Canal (WTC) suffers from degrading water quality, caused by the

discharge of untreated domestic and wastewater into canal.

2. Fieldwork content

The theme of the fieldwork was “The practices on Water Resources

Management in a Gradient Polluted Strategic River of Citarum River of West Java

Province, Indonesia”. The purpose of this fieldwork was shaping students who have

the capacity to:

1. Explain and discuss the current situation in the use and management of water

in Citarum River Basin.

2. Discuss the role of central and local governments, NGOs, the private sector

and local residents, and their initiatives for sustainable use and management of

water in this area.

3. Evaluating the results of the analysis of data and information that is collected

in the work field.

4. Set a target of group through discussion within the group based on the data

and information collected in the field.

5. Prepare a directing plan to be presented.

6. Evaluating the plan that has been presented.

The number of participants for this fieldwork were 17students coming from

Indonesia (4 students), Japan (8 students), Philipines (1 student), Vietnam (1

student), Thailand (1 student) and Malaysia (2 students).

3. Location

This fieldwork was held in ITB Campus at Ganesha for the implementation

of lectures and presentation/discussion of field practice material report, and the

outside of the ITB Campus (Citarum River Basin) from the upper area of Citarum

River Basin (Cisanti Lake), middle part (Saguling and Cirata Dams), and downstream

area (Jatiluhur Dam) for field practice. The location of field practice are:

1. Cisanti Lake, Bandung Regency (uppstream of Citarum river)

2. Batujajar Bridge, West Java Province

3. Waste water treatment plant, PDAM Tirtawening Bojongsoang

4. Saguling and Cirata Dam (middle stream of Citarum River Basin)

5. Jatiluhur Dam (downstream of Citarum River Basin)

4. Fieldwork activities

Day 1 (Monday, 14 December 2015)

Opening, program orientation, workshop

ITB Campus

Lecture from Dr. Arno Adi Kuntoro

(Dept.of Civil Engineering ITB)

Lecture from Dr.Dwina Roosmini (Dept.

of Environmental Engineering ITB)

Lecture from Dr. Agus Jatnika

(Dept. of Environmental Engineering

ITB)

Day 2 (Tuesday, 15 December 2015)

Workshop

ITB campus

Lecture from Resmiani, MS (West Java

Environmental Protection Agency)

Lecture from Sunardi Yogantara (NGO

Warga Peduli Lingkungan)

Lecture from Scool of life science and

technology

Group disscussion for fieldtrip preparation

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Day 3 (Wednesday, 16 December 2015)

Cisanti lake (Upper Citarum, 0 Km of citarum river)

Waste water treatment, PLTA Tirtawening Bojongsoang

Water measurement (DO, TDS,

conductivity, conductivity) at 0 Km of upper

Citarum river basin, Cisanti lake

Water pollution from animal husbandary

begin fewer km from 0 Cisanti Lake

Deforestation of upper citarum land

Waste water treatment, PDAM Tirtawening

Bojongsoang

Waste water treatment, PDAM

Tirtawening Bojongsoang

Waste water treatment, PLTA

Tirtawening Bojongsoang

Day 4 (Thursday, 17 December 2015)

Batujajar Bridge (water quality condition before entering Saguling reservoir and sedimentation problem)

Cirata reservoir (observation fish farming and sedimentation problem)

Domestic waste problem under Batujajar

Bridge (middle citarum river)

Domestic waste problem under Batujajar

Bridge (middle citarum river)

Water mesurement (DO, TDS, acidity,

conductivity) from Batujajar (middle

citarum river)

Interviewed local people at Batujajar

(middle citarum river)

Presentation from Cirata reservoir officers

Visited Cirata reservoir

Fish farming at Cirata reservoir,one of the

causes of sedimentation. There are

thousands of fish cafe in Cirata reservoir

Front gate of PLTA Cirata tunnel

Inside PLTA Cirata tunnel

Day 5 (Friday, 18 December 2015)

Jatiluhur reservoir (field observation, fish farming)

Citarum water’s utilization for irrigation and water at Karawang

Water pollution in Jatiluhur reservoir from

fish farming. There are thousand of fish cafe

in this reservoir and it causes sedimentation

Jatiluhur spill way which operated when

water debit is high

A man utilized water source in Bendung

Hilir (a part ofJatiluhur reservoir) for

fishing

Water sampling in Bendung Hilir, Karawang

Water measurment (DO, TDS, acidity,

conductivity) in Bendung Hilir,

Karawang

Bendung Hilir, a part of Jatiluhur

reservoir

Day 6-7 (19-20 December 2015)

Workshop and progress report for final presentation

ITB campus

Lecture about how to make infographiscs

Day 8 (21 December 2015)

Final presentation and farewell party

ITB campus

Saung angklung Udjo

Final presentation

Final presentation

Farewell party at Saung Angklung

Udjo

All EBA Participants

Indonesia-Japan-Thailand-Vietnam-Malaysia-Philipine

5. Output

During fieldwork, participants worked in a group consist of 5 students. There

were three groups which each of them focused on working in one of parts of citarum

river. Group A worked for collecting data and evidence in upper citarum, group B in

middle citarum and group C in downsream citarum. After collecting data and

evidence participants were needed to make a poster and video which had been

documented during fieldwork and presented them in final presentation. Pictures below

show the posters which had been created by the participants. (video in attachments).

Poster group A

Poster group B

Poster group C