In the spirit of the new year, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Ministry of National Development Planning/Bappenas, and Ministry of Public Works and Housing successfully held the Water Accounting Roadmap (WARM) second workshop in hybrid setting from 23rd – 25th January 2024 led by Alluvium, an Australian partner of the Water Scarcity Program (WSP). This event was following the previous Water Accounting Roadmap Workshop last year and these three days' workshop attended by 25 offline and 7 trainees joining online.

Day 1 – Defining the purpose and scope of the data collection, processing, and storage in a national approach.

To officially start the workshop, Mrs. Titih Titisari from the Directorate General Water Resources of the Ministry of National Development Planning/National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), gave her remarks in the hope that the next three days of a workshop can provide a strong understanding and basis for preparing efficient water balances and allocation, as well as a strong basis for preparing action plans for managing national water scarcity. In today’s workshop, the focus was to get clarification or identification on how the accounting is legislated at the national level, especially for water accounting is undertaken at a basin level and how both approaches fit. In this day workshop as well, trainees were actively participating in several sessions of discussion which were divided into three.

Photo 1 - Day one of WARM II Workshop

The first discussion was to know the intent of the national level regulation, also the concern for policymakers at different levels, and further consideration. In the second discussion, trainees were discussing to get knowledge on how at the national level to gather data and the type of the data later found that several platforms for data sharing exist, and a lot of the hydrological (water balance) information can be found online.

It is water user info that can be hard to get (actual not allocated), and accounting analysis should be user-friendly. The third discussion was to focus on the water accounting analysis of the model type used and the specific inputs and outputs required. The last was emphasizing the information on the reporting and communications which in Indonesia, a good template for reporting already exists.

Day 2 –WEAP vs RIBASIM, basin level approach, and the Cimanuk Cisanggarung basin.

Opening day two, trainees got an overview of the Cimanuk basin which was explained in detail by Mr. Roni Farfian, representative of the Cimanuk Cisanggarung river basin team, explaining their readiness on annual water allocations plan and detailed water allocations plan such as the mapping and information for irrigation area and supply points, PDAM supply and other water users’ locations. To gather many perspectives, trainees interactively discuss the minimum level of data needed to develop up a water accounting framework.

Photo 2 - Mr Roni Farfian from Cimancis BBWS

It can be found that the Cimanuk Cisanggarung river basin profile is already comprehensive and uses the policy of one map for the river basin and all data are centered in the River Basin Management Center in the Ministry of Environment and Forestry also using the WEAP to model their river basin data. The Cimanuk Cisanggarung is already a good example of how river basin management is well-prepared not withstanding minor updates which may be employed and can be replicated in another river basin in Indonesia.

Day 3 – Reporting and communication.

Photo 3 - Mr. Ir. Juari ME Bappenas

The last day of the workshop was opened by Mr. Ir. Juari ME from the Directorate of Water Resources of the Ministry of National Development Planning/National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) in the message of hope that these past three days of learning can increase the country capacity to implement the water accounting to translate it into a good plan for river basin. Moreover, for others who cannot join the workshop and to prepare human resources in the future, all material and discussion results are expected to be shared.

Getting into the workshop, trainees were engaged in a group discussion offline and online, to explore what the essential water information for different users’ needs to be disclosed and how to guide for setting up the accounting, later to articulate into a template that can present to another group. This was through by simulating the team as end-user groups, which could include: industry, local government, and irrigation managers.

Afer the discussion and presenting the result from each group, Mr. Ewin Sofian Winata, ST, MEM, the Ministry of National Development Planning/National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) gave his word to expect from this event to expect to increase the governance and water accounting for the nation because water security is already become the compass of policy. For instance, the river basin improvement program especially for information, data availability, and other gaps that found in these three days of workshop will be a takeaway for the government to fill through programs and become valuable information and guidance for governments to formulate the national policies and strategies.

Photo 4 - Group Discussion

This Water Accounting Roadmap (WARM) Workshop will be followed up into stage three with a plan to be placed at the end of March 2024 led by the Alluvium team.

For more information, please contact (Mr) Fany Wedahuditama: fany@ws-indonesia.org and/or fany.wedahuditama@gwpsea.org

This Water Accounting Roadmap (WARM) II Workshop is supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Water Partnership and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

Let's take a peek at the excitement of the Indonesian Water Coalition represented by the Founding Members:

1. Ratih Anggraeni - Head of Climate and Water Stewardship, Danone Indonesia
2. Rudi Zapariza - Stakeholder Outreach Manager, YKAN
3. Mellisa Mina - Sustainability Manager, Multi Bintang Indonesia
4. Fany Wedahuditama, Executive Director of Indonesia Water Coalition and Regional Coordinator, Global Water Partnership - Southeast Asia (GWP-SEA)

This event was held last week, 31st May in a discussion with atamerica visitors on 'Let's Work Together to Accelerate Change in Tackling the Water Crisis!'

It discusses joint actions in overcoming the global water crisis.

Watch the recording below.

On 22 June, Yayasan AWS Indonesia on behalf of the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) and Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR) has successfully held a webinar for GPSNR members to launch the ‘pathways toward good water stewardship in the natural rubber sector’ report. The Pathways report and the webinar addressed the critical topics for good water stewardship uptake in the natural rubber sector, which are: the main drivers for building a strong business case for water, the priority topics on water as part of GPSNR’s Policy Framework and the opportunity to improve performance on water at site and catchment level and make credible claim through AWS Standard certification by the natural rubber sector.

Improved performance on good water stewardship, as defined by the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS by the natural rubber sector would support sustainable production, increase the sector’s resilience to water-related risks and increase the sector’s role as a good water steward at catchment or landscape level.

To respond to the growing water risks in agriculture and work towards stronger actions on water in the natural rubber sector and to build business resilience and improve sustainable production, AWS and the GPSNR Secretariat collaborated in the ISEAL Innovations Fund project ‘Boosting sustainability practice and performance at the landscape level through good water stewardship’ project by developing a strategic document called Pathways towards good water stewardship by the natural rubber sector.

Contact (Mr) Fany Wedahuditama: fany@ws-indonesia.org for more information and further collaboration.

Watch the recording and visual art below.

This webinar is made possible thanks to a grant from the ISEAL Innovations Fund which is supported by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO

Together with our project partners, this time on our joint webinar, we will highlight the areas for mutual strengthening and the potential challenges and opportunities for good water stewardship in the natural rubber and palm oil sector as part of jurisdictional and landscape approaches. This webinar is open to AWS members and partners interested in or working on landscape and jurisdictional approaches, particularly in agriculture, and creating awareness and interest from a wider audience of leading players in jurisdictional and landscape approaches.

Spotlight on Indonesia: Pathways to Good Water Stewardship in Landscape & Jurisdictional Approaches in Palm Oil & Natural Rubber is the second webinar of the ISEAL Innovations Fund project 2020-2022 ‘Boosting sustainability practice and performance at the landscape level through good water stewardship’.

Driven by the intrinsic principles of the AWS Standard to work at catchment scale, and recognising the strengths of Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, Global Platform For Sustainable Natural Rubber and Lingkar Temu Kabupaten Lestari, and bringing together two globally traded commodities in the landscape, palm oil and natural rubber, this project will focus on developing practical means to strengthening inclusion and uptake of good water stewardship in guidance documents, tools and performance measurement.

IN THIS WEBINAR

 

KEYNOTE SPEECH

Fany Wedahuditama, Executive Director – Yayasan Aliansi Wali Sumber Daya Air Indonesia (AWS Indonesia)

SPEAKERS

This webinar is made possible thanks to a grant from the ISEAL Innovations Fund which is supported by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO

AWS Spotlight on Indonesia: Driving Good Water Stewardship in Landscape & Jurisdictional Approaches in Palm Oil & Natural Rubber webinar is the first AWS Spotlight webinar of the ISEAL Innovations Fund project 2020-2022 ‘Boosting sustainability practice and performance at the landscape level through good water stewardship'.

There is a growing need for strengthening jurisdictional and landscape approaches and sustainability standards on water, as water as an asset isn’t valued sufficiently which is leading to overlooked risks. This relevance and urgency for strengthening jurisdictional and landscape approaches and standards on water, and to pilot this in the context of Indonesia.

Driven by the intrinsic principles of the AWS Standard to work at catchment scale, and recognising the strengths of Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, Global Platform For Sustainable Natural Rubber and Lingkar Temu Kabupaten Lestari Secretariat, and bringing together two globally traded commodities in the landscape, palm oil and natural rubber, this project will focus on developing practical means to strengthening inclusion and uptake of good water stewardship in guidance documents, tools and performance measurement.

In this first webinar will introducing the project to Alliance for Water Stewardship members and partners interested in or working on landscape and jurisdictional approaches, particularly in agriculture, and creating awareness and interest from a wider audience of leading players in jurisdictional and landscape approaches to introduce our focus on water stewardship as part of these.

In this webinar

This webinar is made possible thanks to a grant from the ISEAL Innovations Fund which is supported by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO.

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