Deltacountry Indonesia

This approach promotes sustainable and integrated water management through long-term partnerships and leverages experiences and results from previous Partner for Water programmes. Discover our partnership with Indonesia in the video, and how you can participate below.

Integrated water resilience from North-Java

Partners for Water collaborates with the Indonesian Ministries of Public Works and Housing (PUPR) and National Development Planning (Bappenas) to enhance integrated water management and flood management for North Java, an Indonesian national priority. Delta management (in a low-lying delta), as one of the key fields of expertise of the Dutch water sector, is very much applicable to North Java. It consists of many rivers, originating from the nearby mountains, which flow into a low-lying coastal area. Therefore, many bilateral projects – in the past and ongoing – are being implemented in North Java. The projects address key challenges observed across major urban centres and coastline, such as flooding, land subsidence ,sedimentation and coastal erosion. Developing a more programmatic approach is envisioned to improve synergies among the activities, as well as alignment with activities and investments of other parties.

Lowland development and irrigation

Since the early 2000s, the Netherlands and Indonesia have intensively collaborated on lowland areas. As part of the JSC outcomes, Partners for Water has aimed to revisit the collaboration to identify opportunities for jointly and sustainably enhancing food security in existing lowland areas. Through capacity building and coordination, incorporating Dutch expertise, innovation and technology, Partners for Water aims to contribute and support infrastructure investment, operation and maintenance by PUPR and international development partners.