Implementation of Sustainable Irrigation System Governance Policy in Rotiklot Watershed, Belu District-Indonesia

This research aims to describe and analyze the implementation of sustainable irrigation system governance policies in the Rotiklot River Watershed and identify supporting and inhibiting factors through the Goggin et al.Implementation Model.This research is descriptive research with a qualitative approach.The results showed that the Implementation of the Sustainable Irrigation System Governance Policy has been running as follows: (1) Structuring the water allocation mechanism at the watershed scale, (2) Patterns of implementing integrated and sustainable management to optimally utilize available water resources from Rotiklot dam (3) Irrigation excellence characterized by a focus on the water allocation mechanism and the effectiveness of integrative management.(4) Utilization of superior and advanced irrigation techniques, namely SPRINKLER, as appropriate technology.This research formulates the "Integration Model" as a policy implementation model for sustainable irrigation system governance in Rotiklot Watershed, Belu Regency, and East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia.Sustainable irrigation system governance is a form of policy implementation in managing water resources to meet various environmental and community requirements, such as agriculture, plantations, fisheries, and livestock that require professional and independent management to improve overall community welfare. Bere et al. Sustainable Irrigation System Governance Policy8886 scientific and integrated manner that will affect the overall achievement of results.The constellation of the existence and role of the state and government as public institutions and public figures of water resources are related to the interests of many people, which must be regulated and managed correctly.Water management governance becomes relevant and strategic due to the commonalities of water as common goods or shared (social) property.This phenomenon places the government or state in a critical role by involving various elements representing the state.Here the state is understood as an authentic collection of various national and local political subsystems.(Douglas Rose, 1973: 1170) in Implementation Theory and Practice by Malcolm L Goggin et al., "States Are A Real Collection of Various Subsystems of National and Local Politics.")In concrete form, the comprehensive meaning of the state is known as the legislature, executive, and judiciary, which at the operational level are politics, bureaucracy, and organized interest groups.To a certain degree, these three units of relationships or clusters at all levels of government are with the government from the beginning of program planning, the implementation process on an ongoing basis to the output and outcome.