help to overcome the problem. So finally in 1990 the
canalization of watersheds from Japan for the entire
river area in West Sumatera. Until now the floods in
the downstream region always occur every year but
not as severe as previous years.
The Floods which occurred each year is reaching
4 meters to meet the flood canals that have been
made. At the time of this research survey conducted
high water level that seemed to meet ¾ part of the
canal flood that has been built. It is suspected that
the flood problem occurring in every year is not only
caused by community activities in upstream areas
but also in the middle and downstream areas. Large
water flows and floods that occur every year not
only harm the community. Large direct water
currents will also carry sand or soil particles from
upstream to downstream. the dam function did not
work properly barrier rock or wood forest that
flowing from upstream. If this process occurs
continuously will appear deposition of sand or soil
called sedimentation.
Some community members in the downstream
section work as fishermen. Theor catch was more
when pre-construction of canal flood because fish
and another marine biota still often appeared in the
watershed area. The problem today felt difference by
the fishermen after the river basin development is
the difficulty of getting enough catches to meet the
economic needs of the fishing communities. This is
causing some fishermen to switch their livelihoods.
Many of fishermen have to catch fish in the ocean
area further away from the downstream area of this
Kuranji watershed. This is different compared to
before the canal was built when fishermen could
catch the fish in the watershed area alone without
having to go to sea.
The development of a flood canal project that
aims to reduce the risk of floods received by the
community requires clearing land in the downstream
area of the Kuranji watershed. So that causes some
of the mangrove forest area downstream area is cut
down. The loss of part of the mangrove forest area in
this area causes the balance of the downstream
ecosystem downstream. Some marine organisms that
live in symbiosis with mangroves or mangrove trees
to be moved to choose an area that suits their
required habitat. This lost mangrove forest area
needs to be the government's attention.
Complicated problems in the downstream area of
this Kuranji watershed. ranging from floods,
garbage, and sedimentation and also more worrying
to some people in this area is the degradation of land
that they occupy today. This is felt by the people
who live near the canals. The respondents said that
almost every year the surface of this land dropped
approximately 2 - 4 cm. They felt a deeper gap was
forming downstream at the end near the sea area.
This is a concern for some people. However, there
has been no special attention from the local
government.
The problems along the river basin are holistic,
multi-functionality of river basin, a different interest
that encourages conflict, all parties needed to
manage conflict, uncertainty alternative and result
because of disregard the decision process, the
meaning is law not beyond criticism (Mostert,
1999).
Watershed management is needed for the
realization of clean and safe river basins. The current
problem that is felt by some people in the
downstream area of Kuranji watershed is the
absence of comprehensive watershed management.
So this creates new problems that keep popping up
in the downstream area. For example, currently, the
water flowing downstream is black and brown. this
proves that in the upstream and central areas and
some downstream areas still occur waste disposal in
randomly to the city either household waste or
industry. This waste disposal is not yet well-
managed. So this causes losses in the downstream
community.
Problems that occur in downstream areas Kuranji
watershed needs to be a concern for the community
and government and the private sector. In the
conditions that occur as now, it is supposed to
downstream part of this Kuranji watershed done
improvements both physical buildings and
governance. But it is very unfortunate. Until now the
city government of Padang itself has not done much
for this area. It is required that the rules are
comprehensive and capable of coordinating all
parties involved in handling the Kuranji river basin
as common pool resource. Regarding resolving
water damage, synergy is needed between regions in
the form of role-sharing between the Province,
district sub-district, and or villages at upstream and
downstream areas. Integrated watershed
management should keep attention to the
relationship between a sector with the activities
sector to water supply because its component will
affect the other sectors (Handayani, 2013).
Various methods can be applied to conflict
resolution efforts in river basin basins, especially as
irrigation problems can be solved by analytic
hierarchical model. The model is utilized along the
river by involving the farmers on data assessment
(Febriamansyah, 2006). Furthermore, for conflicts
resolution that involving many parties, it is