Abstract
Since the enachtment of ethical politics during the reign of the Dutch East Indies, there has been development in the irrigation sector. One of the places that Dutch Colonial Government built irrigation channels was the Way Tebu Irrigation network. This research was conducted to reveal the development of Way Tebu Irrigation which has an impact on agrarian development ini realizing Sustainable Development Goals for the Pringsewu Community. The type of research used qualitative with a historical approach. The results of this study indicate that since the Dutch Colonial era until Now the Way Tebu Irrigation network has not undergone significant changes so that its authenticity is maintained. The Way Tebu Irrigation network is the lifeblood for agriculture in Pringsewu and its surrounding. Through this Way Tebu Irrigation network, agricultural lands become fertile and fish farming is running well. The results of the commodity other than for personal consumption by local farmers, but also distributed to various regions through existing factories. The existence of the Way Tebu irrigatin networksnis able to prosper the Pringsewu community and be able to realize the suistanable development goals for the Pringsewu community,
Keywords: The Way Tebu Irrigations, SDGs Pringsewu Community
INTRODUCTION
Since the enactment of ethical politics in Pringsewu, the Dutch began to build irrigation canals. One of them is the Way Tebu irrigation canal in the Pringsewu area which has been studied since 1917 in several river areas such as Way Sekampung, Way Nenep, and Way Tebu which completed mapping its topographic conditions in 1922. The program was finally realized in 1927 and ended in 1936. The construction of this irrigation canal was able to irrigate an area of 3,740 Baus that were able to stimulate the expansion of rice fields and plantations which ultimately increased rice production in Lampung, thus successfully making a surplus of shipments to Batavia since 1936 (Kristian, 2019: 166).
The population of Lampung after the completion of the Way Tebu irrigation project continues to increase every year. This condition made the old colonists in Pringsewu experience labor shortages when the harvest season arrived, so the old colonists asked the leader of colonization to bring family and friends who came from Java to help cut rice during the harvest season. Karesidenan Lampung was only able to meet the need for food (rice) after the Way Tebu III irrigation network was completed in 1936, this is demonstrated by the success of exporting rice out of the area for the first time (Karsiwan, et al, 2013: 8).
Irrigation is the use of groundwater for the provision of water necessary for crop growth (Priyonugroho, 2014: 459). Way Tebu irrigation development sector in Pringsewu is a continuation of the construction of the Way Tebu irrigation sector in Tanggamus which was carried out in 1927 in the Pondok Mas area and into the Pringsewu Regency area. The process of building the Way Tebu sector involves residents with royong every weekend for 20 days every year. This irrigation network is divided into two directions, namely to the area to the gutter in Pajaresuk with a distance of 933 m from the main sadap building and empties into the flow of the Way Sekampung River, while the other flow goes to the Way Buluk and Way Tebu Rivers and empties into yogyakarta village of Gading Rejo District pringsewu regency (Karsiwan, et al, 2013: 7).
The success of the construction of Way Tebu irrigation to date remains able to become the main support of agriculture in pringsewu area as one of the rice producing areas in Lampung (Prayitno, 2020: 95). The existence of Way Tebu irrigation canals becomes its own advantage to food security strengthening agrarian pringsewu community. Agrarian in the dictionary means as a matter of agriculture, land ownership,while agrarian means agriculture, about farmers or the way of lifeof farmers, is agricultural (Fathoni, 2018:356).
According to Food Law No. 7 of 1996 on food security, the condition of meeting food needs for households is reflected in the availability of food sufficiently, both from the amount and quality, safe, equitable and affordable (Suharyanto, 2011: 186). To support sustainable agriculture and improve the quality of life of the Pringsewu community developed a Way Tebu irrigation channel that is able to sustain the food needs of the community without hunger which is one of the points in the 17 points in the SDGs. SDGs stands for Sustainable Development Goals, which is a document that will be a reference within the framework of development and negotiation of countries in the world. The Sustainable Development Goals are defined as a framework for the next 15 years to 2030 (Wahyuningsih, 2017: 392). Poverty is still an important and major issue that wants to be improved in achieving the SDGs. The global goal of the SDGs is that without poverty, there is no poverty of any kind in all corners of the world (Ishartono and Raharjo, 2016: 165). In realizing a world without poverty, a sustainable food security is needed that aims to turn food self-sufficiency into food independence and turn increased food production into an increase in the incomes of farmers and rural communities (Suryana, 2014: 132).
This condition is also supported by the quality of water resources channeled through the irrigation of Way Tebu. This has an impact on the development of food crop varieties since the construction of the irrigation canal. Based on the background above, researchers are interested in formulating and reviewing through a study entitled "Irrigation Way Tebu Past 1927- 1936: Reflections on Agrarian Strengthening in Realizing Sustainable Development Goals of Pringsewu Society".
CONCLUSION
Way Tebu irrigation is one of the evidences of the Dutch colonial legacy as a result of the implementation of ethical political policies. Way Tebu irrigation is a fixed type dam with solid rock construction. Since the Dutch colonial era, the Way Tebu irrigation channel has maintained its authenticity because there have been no significant renovations. Repairs are carried out by the the relevant agency every 5 years or according to the damage that occurs. The repairs that are usually carried out are changing channel doors and extracting sediment and repairing irrigation walls. Way Tebu irrigation or commonly called the Way Tebu System has 4 main channels, namely Way Tebu I, Way Tebu II, Way Tebu III and Way Tebu IV. The Way Tebu irrigation canals are interconnected and capable of irrigating agricultural land belonging to the Pringsewu community. The majority of Pringsewu people work as farmers and fishers. The commodity products are rice, cocoa, papaya pepper, and porang. In the field of fisheries, the community cultivates catfish, carp, and tilapia. The need for water in the fisheries sector is also sourced form the Way Tebu irrigation cahnnel. With the Way Tebu irrigation, the community lives in prosperity and is able to realize the Sustainable Development Goals for the Pringsewu community. Comodity products, apart from being consumed personally, are also distribute outside the city through exsiting factories. This proves that Way Tebu irrigation can be said to be the economic lifeblood of the Pringsewu community.
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