Rabu Biru Foundation — Water Programme
Water for the Nation
Indonesia's water problem is not one problem. A family without a safe source, a farmer watching a season fail, and a village cut off after a flood all need water — but not the same water, and not on the same timeline. Water for the Nation works on all three.
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What it is
One programme, because it is one water table.
Water for the Nation — Air untuk Negeri — is Rabu Biru Foundation's water programme. We survey, drill, pipe and hand over water systems in places where the dry season decides whether a family drinks, a field is planted, or a village has to wait for a truck.
The programme grew out of a simple observation. The same survey team, the same drilling crew and the same village institutions can serve a school, a rice field and an evacuation point. Splitting them into separate projects would mean three sets of overheads and three sets of relationships to build, for water drawn from the same ground.
Water also sits underneath our other two pillars. A feeding programme cannot outrun repeated diarrhoea. A farmer cannot grow food without irrigation. That is why water is not a side activity here — it is the floor the rest of the work stands on.
The programme
Three areas, one delivery chain.
WASH for health
Safe water, sanitation and hygiene for households, schools and healthcare facility — cutting the infection burden that quietly undermines child growth.
- Water points and safe household storage
- Sanitation and handwashing facilities
- Hygiene practice built into healthcare facility
Water for agriculture
Deep wells and irrigation so farmers can plant and harvest through the dry season. Delivered with Pupuk Indonesia CSR under the Mata Air Indonesia partnership.
- Geo-electric survey and deep drilling
- Reservoirs, pumps and distribution
- Farmer groups running the system
Clean water for disaster
Rapid clean water for communities hit by drought, earthquake or flood — and repair of the wells they already had, so recovery does not wait for reconstruction.
- Emergency supply and mobile treatment
- Deepening and re-lining damaged wells
- Handover to local management
Watch
From survey to handover, in one village.
Water For Nation - Mulusan, Gunung Kidul, Yogyakarta. 2025
Where we work
Every site we have opened, by area.
How to read this. Tap or hover a point for what was built there. Counts on this page cover sites opened under Water for the Nation. Our 2025 programme report records 58 wells across Nusa Tenggara Timur and DI Yogyakarta — of which six are new water systems and 52 are household wells in Bantul that were deepened and re-lined after the 2025 drought. The five agricultural districts are in delivery with Pupuk Indonesia and are counted separately.
Work with us
Fund a point, or fund the year that keeps it running.
We work with corporate CSR and TJSL programmes, foundations, and individual donors who want a single water point in their name. Every site is costed after survey, because depth and terrain decide the price — not a national average.
Indicative funding range
USD 50,000
– 100,000
per water point, depending on depth and terrain. Survey funding, twelve-month monitoring and emergency readiness are raised separately.
