Some places in Java are under pressure regarding their water supply mainly due to high-density population within a limited area. More serious land subsidence has reached 1-20 cm/year in some areas due to over-abstraction of deep ground water.To overcome water scarcity on Java, Indonesia built 24 dams with a total storage capacity of 2,150 million m 3 for irrigation covering an area of 196,000 ha, thereby reducing flood volume to 5,010 m 3 /s, with an additional water supply of 29.0 m 3 /s and electricity power of 147 MW.The role of other stakeholders such as the farming community and the business and private sectors is that they need to take action to prepare innovative agricultural facilities, for example, to save water with high-value crops.The application of micro-irrigation with high-value crops, which has been successful on pilot basis, has a great potential market in Java. The economic value of water is more than 100 times higher compared with conventional irrigation systems for lowland rice.