ANALISIS PEMBERDAYAAN SUBAK TERHADAP OPERASIONAL DAN PEMELIHARAAN JARINGAN IRIGASI SUBAK KEPAON KECAMATAN DENPASAR SELATAN

Abstract

Subak Kepaon is located in South Denpasar District consisting Munduk
Tungging, Munduk Wang Biga, Munduk Dajan Sema, Munduk Juwet, Munduk
Timbul, and Munduk Teruna. Subak Kepaon is situated on the land of 223.76 ha.
Tukad Badung (Badung river) flows through the middle of Denpasar and Badung
regency towards Subak Kepaon. The main river has a length of 17 km and the main
river catchment area is 22.55 km². This river has three functions: irrigation,
drainage and raw water taps source (Department of Agriculture and Marine,
Denpasar, 2006). This study analyses significant effect of empowerment towards
maintenance of Subak Kepaon, South Denpasar District. Based on regression
model results, the empowerment variable has a positive slope with a significance
value of t test below 5%. This indicates that if the empowerment variable increases
so will the maintenance variable. The Fcountvalue of 420.477 is much higher than F
table of 2.7746 so that Ho is rejected and Hi is accepted. The Hi describes that
empowerment simultaneously influences on maintenance variables. The tcount value of
20.506 is higher than ttable of 1.666 so that Ho is rejected and Hi is accepted. The
Hi describes that the positive effect of empowerment exists towards maintenance
variables.