Bureaucracy and Development : Reflections from the Indonesian Water Sector

The fall of the New Order government in 1998 and the political reform that followed posed substantial challenges for Indonesia's bureaucracy to continue fulfilling its mandate. This book analyses the process of bureaucratic reform in the irrigation sector. Using Irrigation Management Transfer policy as the entry point for analysis, it documents and analyses the irrigation bureaucracy‰Ûªs ability to sustain its power and prominence in the sector‰Ûªs development, amidst and against national and int