By Intan Nur Azizah, M.Sc. – (Thesis M.Sc.  Unesco-IHE, Delft, Netherland, 2014),, Supervised by Prof . Charlotte de Fraiture, M.Sc, PhD, Prof.Dr.Ir. Robiyanto Hendro Susanto,M.Agr.Sc. and F.X. Suryadi, Ph.D, M.Sc. Mangrove forest brings the important role for the global ecosystem. Mangrove forest spread in all the tropic and sub tropic areas in the world. Indonesia has the largest mangrove forest which is about 2.5 - 4.5 million ha or 25 % from the total mangrove area in the world, even some of them are in critical condition. These mangrove areas are spread in East Kalimantan (3.8 %), South Sumatra (3.6 [...]

By Eko Desi Sularso, M.Sc. – (Thesis M.Sc.  Unesco-IHE, Delft, Netherland, 2014), Supervised by Prof. Charlotte de Fraiture Ph.D, M.Sc., Prof. Dr. Ir. Robiyanto H. Susanto, M.Agr.Sc. and F.X. Suryadi, Ph.D, M.Sc. Gansal River that is located on the downstream part of Bukit Tigapuluh National Park is one of the most interesting ecotourism sites that are rich both in cultural, sports and environmental tourism. While this river is clean most of the time, it still turns brown during and after a rain. This brown water is spoiling its beautiful image of a green and clean tropical rain forest. The major [...]

By Lazuardi, M.Sc. – (Thesis M.Sc.  Unesco-IHE, Delft, Netherland, 2014), Supervised by Prof. Charlotte de Fraiture Ph.D., M.Sc., Prof. Dr. Ir. Robiyanto H. Susanto, M.Agr.Sc. and F.X. Suryadi, Ph.D., M.Sc. As one of the main cities in Indonesia with the quite rapidly development, Palembang City generally is not also spared from urban problems as well as issues on urban drainage systems which related directly to the flooding problem. Flooding problem caused by urban development that lead to land use change contribute to an impact on the incidence of flooding. Moreover, geographically, Palembang City has a low elevation and relatively flat [...]

By Arief Santosa, M.Sc. – (Thesis M.Sc.  Unesco-IHE, Delft, Netherland, 2014), Supervised by Prof. Charlotte de Fraiture Ph.D., M.Sc., Prof. Ir. Robiyanto H. Susanto, PhD., M.Agr.Sc. and Laszlo Hayde, PhD., M.Sc. In many developing countries, forest areas suffer from illegal logging, wildlife hunting, illegal agricultural practices and forest encroachments. With increasing pressure on land use for human activities, natural forests have been converted and exploited into other land uses such as settlement, agricultural area, fish pond, and plantation estates. Lowland protected forest areas also threatened by this situation since people continue to expand their exploitation inside the forest area. Muara [...]

By Ningsih, M.Sc. – (Thesis M.Sc.  Unesco-IHE, Delft, Netherland, 2014), Supervised by Prof. Charlotte de Fraiture Ph.D., M.Sc., Prof. Dr. Ir. Robiyanto H. Susanto, M.Agr.Sc. and F.X. Suryadi, Ph.D., M.Sc. Urban drainage system is an important infrastructure in cities especially located in lowland area. The drainage system could be a kind of flood controls therefore it needs to be managed properly in order to secure an area from flooding. The components of urban drainage system may consist of drainage canals (primary, secondary and tertiary), retention ponds, outfall structures (gates), culverts, etc. The drainage system could accommodate all urban water such [...]

By Mohamad Ali Mashuri, M.Sc. – (Thesis M.Sc.  Unesco-IHE, Delft, Netherland, 2014), Supervised by Prof. Charlotte de Fraiture,PhD, M.Sc, Prof. Robiyanto H. Susanto, PhD, M.Agr.Sc. and F.X. Suryadi, PhD, M.Sc. Brebes District which has the second largest of its area in Central Java Province has a lot of potential from existing resources, especially for the agriculture and aquaculture sector. By the geographical conditions, Brebes District has an area range from coastal to mountainous areas. From the development of the two sectors above, Brebes District well known as "Shallot City" because of more than 30% of national shallot production is produced [...]

Oleh Dina Muthmainnah (Disertasi Doktor Program Studi Ilmu Lingkungan Program Pasca Sarjana Universitas Sriwijaya, 2013) dibimbing oleh Prof. Dr. Zulkifli Dahlan, M.Si., DEA., Co-Promotor I, Prof. Dr. Ir. Robiyanto H. Susanto, M.Agr.Sc., Co-Promotor II, Dr. Abdul Karim Gaffar, S.U.; Co-Promotor III, Dr. Ir. Dwi Putro Priadi, M.Sc. Rawa lebak merupakan ekosistem yang dinamis karena adanya perubahan dua arah dari sistem akuatik ke sistem terestrial yang dipengaruhi oleh faktor-faktor hidrologi, mutu air, vegetasi dan fauna (ikan, reptil, burung). Jasa ekosistem rawa telah dimanfaatkan untuk berbagai kegiatan seperti perikanan, sumber air baku, peternakan, pertanian, transportasi. Pengembangan rawa lebak masih tertinggal dibandingkan dengan [...]

By Wahidah Wahyu Romadhoni – (Thesis M.Si Sriwijaya University, 2013). Supervised by Prof. Charlotte de Fraiture Ph.D., M.Sc. (UNESCO-IHE), Prof. Ir. Robiyanto H. Susanto, M.Agr.Sc., Ph.D (Sriwijaya University), F.X.Suryadi, Ph.D., M.Sc. (UNESCO-IHE). Batam City with an area of 415 km2 is the largest city in Riau Islands Province with the population around 1.15 million people in 2012. As its nature of an island city, water demand of Batam merely depends on the reservoirs. Duriangkang Reservoir is the largest reservoirs in Batam City which is an estuary reservoir type with its catchment area of 7,259 ha and has been operated since [...]

By Ujang Wisnu Barata – (Thesis M.Si Sriwijaya University, 2013). Supervised by Prof. Charlotte de Fraiture Ph.D., M.Sc. (UNESCO-IHE), Prof. Ir. Robiyanto H. Susanto, M.Agr.Sc., Ph.D (Sriwijaya University), F.X.Suryadi, Ph.D., M.Sc. (UNESCO-IHE). Gunung Leuser National Park (GLNP) area in a section of Langkat region have been experiencing severe degradation and deforestation as a result of illegal logging and encroachment for land use conversion. These facts resulted in critical condition of some watersheds that tipped in GLNP. Several times the incidence of flooding, with a peak incidence in last 2006, gives the fact that causal relationship between environmental degradation and disasters [...]

By Trisia Ranti Fani – (Thesis M.Si Sriwijaya University, 2013). Supervised by Prof. Charlotte de Fraiture Ph.D., M.Sc. (UNESCO-IHE), Prof. Ir. Robiyanto H. Susanto, M.Agr.Sc., Ph.D (Sriwijaya University), Laszlo Hayde, Ph.D. M.Sc. (UNESCO-IHE). Development of plantation forests grows rapidly in tropical countries including in Indonesia. These trends occur due to the decreasing of wood supply from natural forest, managing of fast growing species that is relatively easy and high yield from fast growing species. These also make plantation forests have an important role in forestry sectors especially to provide raw materials for pulp and paper industries since the production of [...]

By Rini Yulianti – (Thesis M.Si Sriwijaya University, 2013). Supervised by Prof. Charlotte de Fraiture Ph.D., M.Sc. (UNESCO-IHE), Prof. Ir. Robiyanto H. Susanto, M.Agr.Sc., Ph.D (Sriwijaya University), F.X. Suryadi, Ph.D., M.Sc. (UNESCO-IHE). Timber plantations in peat lowlands cultivate crops for supporting pulp wood industries such as Acacia Crassicarpa. To get high productivity, peat lowlands have to be drained to reach specify requirement. Peat land is vulnerable to external annoyance especially due to drained and excessive drainage that will lead to irreversible drying. Drainage not only has an impact on land subsidence, but also causing the peat swamp became vulnerable to [...]

By Rahmat Ruzniar – (Thesis M.Si Sriwijaya University, 2013). Supervised by Prof. Charlotte de Fraiture Ph.D., M.Sc. (UNESCO-IHE), Prof. Ir. Robiyanto H. Susanto, M.Agr.Sc., Ph.D (Sriwijaya University), F.X. Suryadi, PhD, MSc (UNESCO-IHE) Bintang Mas located in Kubu Raya Regency of West Kalimantan Province is agricultural area that expected to be one of the food producers for Indonesia. In order to realize the objective, developments of water management system have been applied in the area. Though the development has been done, agricultural production in the respective area still low which might be caused by low performance of the irrigation system. Hence, [...]

By Maruddin Fernandus Marpaung – (Thesis M.Si Sriwijaya University, 2013). Supervised by Prof. Charlotte de Fraiture, Ph.D, M.Sc (UNESCO-IHE) Prof. Dr. Ir. Robiyanto H. Susanto, M.Agr.Sc (Sriwijaya University) F.X. Suryadi, PhD, MSc (UNESCO-IHE) Due to rapid development, there were a lot of land use changes especially in Java Island, Indonesia, which was the central of paddy production. Nowadays, the paddy field development is reaching out the lowland area based on the food security program which required more production to ensure the supply stability. Based on that issue, a lot of project had been established to answer the challenge and so [...]