widespread. And finally, nearly all respondents believed that they paid for water through electricity bills because of the use of pumps. Whenever water conservation was discussed the reason was to save on electricity are interested in water saving for cost one bills. “We saving” hotel engineer responsible for water in a medium sized hotel, told us. Another said “water saving equals electricity saving”. 4.2 Political and Regulatory factors As can be seen in the stakeholder map, the responsibility for clean water in Bali falls to eleven different government departments. Each department is represented at different levels in the Indonesian government system: National, Provincial and Regency. National level departments set rules that should be followed at Provincial level, who themselves follow and make rules to be enacted at Regency level. However, since 1999 Indonesia gave the Regencies autonomy so they frequently make their own rules and refuse to abide by rules made higher up in the unfortunately, can administrative system. “Regency heads (bupati), and often do ignore the provincial government in important matters such as coordinating a sustainable approach to resource management and tourism development” (Reuter, 2011:64). The result is plenty of rules but nobody taking responsibility to enforce any of them. Nearly every respondent from village to head of government departments told us that the problem is of control over law do not “weak law enforcement” “lack breakers” “regulations function” is or that are not eleven departments with “supervision weak” “laws implemented”. Having different responsibilities and interests means that coordination across departments is a challenge. Furthermore, each department desires ownership (and potential funds) of all projects and therefore resists sharing information with other departments. They each make their own plans, and their own rules. This behavior of the different ‘sector-centric’ departments involved was particularly apparent in relation to watershed management. When
widespread. And finally, nearly all respondents believed that they paid for water through electricity bills because of the use of pumps. Whenever water conservation was discussed the reason was to save on electricity bills. “We are interested in water saving for cost saving” one hotel engineer responsible for water in a medium sized hotel, told us. Another said “water saving equals electricity saving”. 4.2 Political and Regulatory factors As can be seen in the stakeholder map, the responsibility for clean water in Bali falls to eleven different government departments. Each department is represented at different levels in the Indonesian government system: National, Provincial and Regency. National level departments set rules that should be followed at Provincial level, who themselves follow and make rules to be enacted at Regency level. However, since 1999 Indonesia gave the Regencies autonomy so they frequently make their own rules and refuse to abide by rules made higher up in the administrative system. “Regency heads (bupati), unfortunately, can and often do ignore the provincial government in important matters such as coordinating a sustainable approach to resource management and tourism development” (Reuter, 2011:64). The result is plenty of rules but nobody taking responsibility to enforce any of them. Nearly every respondent from village to head of government departments told us that the problem is “weak law enforcement” “lack of control over law breakers” “regulations do not function” “supervision is weak” or that “laws are not implemented”. Having eleven departments with different responsibilities and interests means that coordination across departments is a challenge. Furthermore, each department desires ownership (and potential funds) of all projects and therefore resists sharing information with other departments. They each make their own plans, and their own rules. This ‘sector-centric’ behavior of the different departments involved was particularly apparent in relation to watershed management. When