Study on Factors Affecting Communication among Water Managers in Participatory Irrigation Management

Abstract

Aiming to improve the irrigation management at water shortage with communication, namely, information sharing, coordination and cooperation among the stakeholders, the author identified, as the first step, key factors affecting frequency of communication among managers (called “Mandoro Jene (MJ)” in local language) and stakeholders in Kampili area, which is located at the most downstream of Bili-Bili dam irrigation area in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The multiple regression analysis was conducted with frequency of communication among the stakeholders in dry season in 2014, ratios of non- irrigated paddy field areas, and attribute data of irrigation unions and MJ’s. As a result, it was revealed that the ratio increased with distance from the most upstream of irrigation canal as well as area of management; and the higher the ratio was, the higher the frequency of communication was.