Fair Budgeting Formulation for O&M of Irrigation Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis: WA and AHP Methods
Abstract: Operation and
Maintenance (O&M) budget
provided by the
Government of Indonesia
for irrigation, so
far, is based on the size of irrigated area only. Meanwhile, the actual
O&M costs of an irrigation area also depend on the topographic
terrain, canal density/length, irrigation
structure density, and
infrastructure damages that
influ-ence to the proper function of irrigation system. Thus, the
O&M budget does not represent the actual cost needed. The purpose
of this study
is to find
method for fair
budgeting O&M irrigations
based on Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA):
Weighted Average (WA)
and Analytic Hierarchy
Process (AHP) methods.
As case study,
the methods are
applied on nine
irrigation areas with
various topographical conditions.
The results are
then compared with
the conventional O&M
budget. Four criteria
are used to
assess the irrigation
areas above: canal density/length (m/ha), structure
density (per hectare), infrastructure damages (%), and size of the irrigation
area. The result shows
that O&M budgeting using
WA and AHP
methods gives more
fairness and closer
to the actual budget
needed, compared with
the government budgeting
that based on the size
of irrigation area
only. While in general, result using AHP method tends to
be more sensitive than that using WA method.
Author: Edy Anto Soentoro,
Faizal I.W. Rohmat, Vitta Vurnamawati
Journal Code: jptsipilgg140002
