Social Justice and Water for All: Constructing a Local Legal Framework for a Good Governance

Abstract

Fulfilling the needs of water is very important in people's lives because water has become a basic need and part of human rights. Conditions that often arise in the field are the problems related to the water quality, the service coverage, the continuity and the commercial. This research aims to develop the concept of regulation in fulfilling the needs of drinking water for equitable communities through solutions to the problem of the community access rights to get the decent clean water quality, the measurable quantities, and the service processes that do not differentiate the community capacity. This research method is a qualitative narrative with the empirical juridical analysis technique, illustrating the social and legal realities in several cities or districts in Indonesian province, and try to understand and explain the logic of logical interconnection between subjects in society that reveals the relationship between laws that are considered fair, or vice versa. The concept of Local Government in fulfilling the needs of drinking water for the community must be fair, comprehensive, and sustainable. However, on the other hand, people often get conditions which are not ideal in the form of water rights and protection services. This research discovers that efforts are needed to develop the concept of local government responsibility by making an ideal and holistic law in the spirit of equity and justice, taking into account the interests of the preservation of water resources themselves. The reconstruction of the concept of regulation of the responsibility of local governments, in fulfilling the needs of drinking water for the community, is needed because there has been a change in water as an economic value, and not human rights anymore.