SUMMARY FINAL REPORT (IRRIGATION TEAM)

"Seasonal Climate Forecasting For Better Irrigation Management System In Lombok”

Water Resources/Irrigation Team, Mataram, October, 2008

A. GENERAL

Based on the Memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the Indonesia

and Australia (c/q Aciar) governments concerning the Program For
Collaborative Agriculture Research, it has agreed to conduct research on
"Seasonal Climate Forecasting for Better Irrigation management
System in Lombok'; Details of the Project are stipulated in the MoU
between the Rector of Mataram University and the Department of Primary
Industry (Queensland), under project No. SMNC/2002/033. The Project was
conducted for more than 4(four) years starting effectively from July 2004 (the
actual period may be reviewed depended upon the evaluation
implementation of the Project). The main budget contributions for this Project
come from a grant aid by ACIAR, while a co-sharing budget is provided by
the Indonesian Government (in the form of in-kind contributions). Four
institutions are involved in this Project: i.e. UNRAM, Meteorological and
Geophysics Agency of Mataram and Denpasar (BMG), Provincial Agriculture
Service (Conservation Section), Dinas Kimpraswil (Regional Office of
Settlement and Infrastructures c/q Water Resources Section). UNRAM is
appointed as Team Leader.

1. Background and Issues:

- In the recent days, water resources are becoming more rare and
difficult to find, this may due to the impact of global climate change?
- Most farmers especially in the study areas (south Lombok) are
reported that they need to know more about climate forecasts for their
agriculture work (i.e. how to utilize climate forecasting for making
decision on planting or harvesting)
- To respond these, its require to prepare better strategies for better
irrigation management, agriculture planning include: involve all sector
of government, knowledge of climate forecasting, right crop choice
and/or planting time and market management of agriculture products.
2. Main Objective of the Study relating to water resources sector are:
- To increase coordination among the government institutions involved;
related to irrigation management and cropping strategy, in order to
use water more efficiently and reduce risk of crop failure.
- To disseminate the Seasonal Climate Forecasting - SCF Technology
to other institutions and other relevant/interested stakeholders.
- To guide the irrigation personnel to learn about SCF technology,
especially in running/practicing the computer model IQQM.
Furthermore, to focus is to disseminate the result of the Aciar Project, ie
the SCF Technology, to the farmer, which can be done by the several
ways including media, direct dissemination/socialization.

3. Water Resources Team:

The members of the Irrigation Team during the project periods are
frequently changes not as fixed as expected. The period of the Aciar
project execution is coincidently same with beginning of autonomy
(decentralization) era, which is, unfortunately, have an impact of personnel
duty/task within the government organization, however, the Aciar project
implementation in water resources sector is done normally.

NAME POSITION REMARKS

Surana, Ir, MSc Coordinator – Sen WR Eng
Ida Ayu Kd Arwiyati, Ir OM Engineer / WOC
Yayan Supriyatna, ST Irrigation Engineer

Whiles, during the last three years, the position of Head of Provincial
Water Resources has been changes three times.
The main tasks of the member of the team are:
- To coordinate for implementation of the project, especially in
running and practicing the IQQM Model (as a tool of water
resources management plan).
- To encourage “irrigation institutions” in District and/or Sub-Districts
(Kecamatan) level to implement the result of the project.