Crucial issues in rice fields production in Indonesia are narrow planting areas, small farming scale and improper cultivation techniques. The Indonesian government also faced issues and problems regarding fulfilment the need of rice-farm area due to the conversion of intensive rice fields to non-agriculture. Efforts to develop integrated and sustainable rice field agriculture are needed to overcome the threat of rice field reduction, increase the productivity of rice fields, and increase farmers’ income and welfare. The intention of this study was to develop a model of rice field in an integrated and sustainable manner based on Rice Estate Community and Smart Farming (REC-SF). To get easily implemented model, participatory method was used through series of audiences and focus group discussion activities involving the main stakeholders. As a breakthrough for traditional agricultural solutions on narrow land, this model included land consolidation to reach minimum rice field area for profitable economic scale, strengthening institutional system, productivity target along with required cultivation inputs and techniques, support for information technology system, agroindustry, and marketing-selling reinforcement. Developed REC-SF model is expected to be more easily implemented and accepted by the farmers to achieve a collective farm business in a large rice-farm area.
Land cover has a big role in determining soil erosion and watershed quality. Watershed quality in a lot of cases is being considered and used in a regional planning. It determines productivity, environmental pollution in a region. Upstream Ciliwung Watershed (UCW) is categorizes as critical watershed. The agroforestry development has great potential to decline soil erosion along with to improve agricultural productivity, environmental sustainability and watershed quality. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of agroforestry systems in reducing soil erosion in the UCW. It was found 21 agroforestry types in the UCW. Agroforestry system cannot be automatically expected to prevent soil erosion in the agricultural land and protect the corresponding watershed from destructive soil erosion. Under existing or actual agroforestry types, majority of them (16 types or 76.1 per cent) still have a destructive soil erosion effect. Only five agroforestry types which have EHI lower than 1 and safe from the destructive soil erosion. After applying a set of soil conservation practices, soil erosion of all agroforestry types became lower than E-tol. It shows that improved agroforestry system has a potential and can be used to reduce soil erosion lower than E-tol to maintain watershed quality and support sustainable agriculture.
Rapid urbanization, population growth and economic drivers forced megacities, metropolises, and many cities around the world face increasing challenges to manage water security in urban areas. The urban water security (UWS) issues becomes more attracting attention of various parties, especially those involved in planning of supply and allocation of urban water, implementation and operation of urban water management all together with systems and techniques for assessing UWS along with the indicators used. This study aimed to: 1) review the assessment system of accomplishment to meet the needs of clean water in the Depok City by PDAM Tirta Asasta Depok (PDAM TAD) and then comparing with the standard of UWS assessment used by the world’s leading cities, 2) develop and propose technique, criteria and indicators for assessing UWS of Depok City. Performance assessment of PDAM TAD in 2018 for serving drinking water in Depok City by using BPPSPAM Guidelines showed that PDAM TAD is classified as “well company”. However, a new technique together with indicators to assess UWS of Depok City is still needed to develop and propose since BPPSPAM Guideline has not fully covered and resembled the criteria and indicators used to measure UWS used widely by the world’s leading cities.
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