ABSTRACT
In Indonesia, as in many other countries, erosion and flood-control problems in river basins with high population densities have become widespread phenomena and a national concern. In part, the problem is rooted in the poverty and farming practices of the people who live in these river basins. Attempts at corrective action by the government have had only marginal effects. Highly centralized in their management and heavily subsidized, these government schemes become bogged down in their own rigidity and are too costly for replication on a large scale.
