The Citizen's Rights to Water in the Era of Autonomy Government

The right to water is a fundamental right for every citizen guaranteed by the constitution. This is because water has a very important function in supporting the survival of everyone. In the Indonesian constitution, it is stated that water is controlled by the state and is used for the maximum welfare of the people. This paper will discuss the fulfillment of the right to clean water for the people in the era of regional autonomy by taking a case study in Wonogiri Regency, Central Java. This study uses a qualitative approach to the type of normative legal research. The results of this study indicate that in the era of regional autonomy, the management of clean water or ground water was not decentralized to the Autonomous Regional Government, but is managed by the Provincial Government as a representative of the Central Government. People who need clean water are given the right to submit applications to the Energy and Mineral Resources Office, Wonogiri Regency. This shows that the citizen rights to have clean water is very dependent on the Government. Therefore, this paper recommends that regulations on the water resources management can be improved and decentralized to autonomous regional governments by improving the substance of norms as mandated by the Constitutional Court Decision.