PURWAKARTA ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES EXCURSION AND JATILUHUR DAM

OBSERVATION RESUME

Khadijatusalma
Darul ‘Ulum 2 Senior High School Jombang, East Java
salmakhadijatu@gmail.com

Purwakarta located in kjkj on the west of Bandung basin. The purpose of this excursion is to
analyze various economy sectors in Purwakarta. The excursion approximately started at 9 a.m. near the
Sri Baduga Fountain in which every student got to know the economy activities around by wandering.
Near the Sri Baduga Fountain is the town square and Wayang Building. After half an hour, the
excursion was continuing to Jatiluhur Dam that was 9 km away from Purwakarta, 100 km south east
from Jakarta, and 60 km north west from Bandung.

Around 11 a.m., the Jatiluhur’s weather was completely sunny and clear. The boat speeded up
to a small island in the centre of the Jatiluhur Dam in which, during the trip with the boat, the exact
building of the dam is up close and the structure of the stone could be seen. The stroll on the island was
quick due to small size of land and very hot weather. From this point, fishery net that was practiced by
local people could be seen along with various landform of hills.

The truth is the dam construction was flooded around 14 villages along with it’s livelihoods.
This is included rice fields and other plants vegetation like teak trees, guava, mango, rambutan, and
many other specieses. It’s first construction in 1957 was finished in 1967 and planned-supervised by
Coyne et Bellier, a France, executed by Compagnie Francaise d’Enterprise, Paris, France. Authorized
by President Soeharti in August 26 1967 at it’s First Operating Ceremony. The construction of this
dam, despite it’s controversion, still hopefully wanted to bring advantages for, mainly, local Sumedang
people in terms of economy and social aspects. Both are to pay equal the time when they’re asked to
abandon their homes.

The operation of this dam are brought several advantages include water supply, flood control,
and hydropower electricity. First, it’s fulfill irrigation for about 242,000 ha area and acts as flood
controller at Karawang and it’s surrounding. It also acts as Raw Water Supply for Domestic Municipal
Industry (DMI) and has power generation 187.5 MW capacity at RWL +107.0 m.msl. Further, it is the
place for local fishery activities and the development project for tourism and water sports.

As for the monitoring and regular checking of the dam and powerplant, there are several dam
safety instrumentation used to monitor. First is movement, external movement topographic instrument
using inclinometer, the monitoring conducted every month. Second, pore water pressure monitor using
piezometer, monitoring conducted twice a month. Third, seepages/discharge monitoring using mean
surrement instrument V-notch, scale glass, and stopwatch, conducted every day. Fourth, vibration
monitoring especially to measure vibration caused by earthquake, the instruments are two units
accelereograph at the top and base of the dam. Fifth, climatology and hydrology monitoring conducted
especially on behalf of dam operation, however the data is useful to fing out correlation with other
instruments data refers to dam safety. Instruments owned are AWLR, ARR, and evaporation
instrument.

It could be concluded that there are various economy sector in Purwakarta that includes small
sector to services. While the dam construction brought many advantages despite it’s controversion. It
has main function as water supply, flodd control, and power plant.