Guidelines on Compiling Integrated River Management Plans

The Integrated River Management System (IRMS) envisaged under this Regulation, No. P.26/Menhut-II/2006, is much more expansive than just the rivers themselves. The IRMS includes surrounding flood plains and streams that function to move rain and other waters into lakes and dams. The underlying premise of this Regulation is not only to allow for better forest, land, and water management, but to also promote conservation to ensure that the environmental needs of the community are met over the long-term.

The Regulation clearly states that the exponential increasing demands put onto the environment by the ever-increasing exploitation of natural resources and a rapidly expanding population is destroying the very environment that will be needed to sustain the population of the future. Some of the problems currently being faced are noted in the Regulation and includes, among others, flooding; landslides; and, the effects of drought.