Regional Intergovernmental Cooperation Model in Water Resources Management in the Era of Regional Autonomy (Case Studies on City Government of Malang and Batu, and Regency Government of Malang, East Java, Indonesia)

Abstract

The regional administration in the context of regional autonomy brought significant changes to the centralization system of local governance turned into a decentralized system. This normative phenomenon is creating administrative boundaries and functional area for each local government as an autonomous region. While empirical phenomena in the administration of public services across the region hindered administrative problems and functional boundaries of each local government, as a solution to overcome these problems required cooperation among local governments. Researchers adopting the concept of cooperation between local government approach (Smith) consisting of; 1). Legal and political approaches; 2). Inter-Organizational Politics; and 3). Political Community, to be used as a tool dialogue and analysis of the research findings. This study used a qualitative approach to research instruments; people, events and documents. Data collection techniques are interview, observation and documentation. Data analysis techniques are grounded theory. Our study focus on: 1). The processed for determining the object of cooperation; 2). Implementation of cooperation in water resources management; 3). Factors that influence the management of water resources. The results showed that 1). The process of determining the object of cooperation has met the principles of law and administration, reduce regional ego; 2). Implementation of the cooperation is not only a formality but prefers the value of togetherness, efficiency and effectiveness of service provision for drinking water has been established well characterized by the distribution of drinking water services in the three local government in Malang; 3). The most influential factor is the regional head support, coordination and less harmonized local ego; 4). Cooperation model that built up is joint service agreement in written agreements and intergovernmental agreement model (government to government = G to G).