The Forest City Research Project is a four year project that explores broad social and environmental impacts of the new capital city and its urban frontiers in East Kalimantan of Indonesia. On July 8-9, 2024, the Consortium successfully conducted a two-day Writeshop in Soesterberg, the Netherlands, as the inauguration of the new city approaches on…

Join us for a Workshop-Writeshop: “Exploring the Impacts of Indonesia’s Capital Relocation to Kalimantan” Date: July 8-9, 2024  –  Location: Utrecht, exact location T.B.D. About the Event: “Following Frontiers of the Forest City” is a 5-year research project investigating the institutional, financial and physical implications of the monumental capital city relocation, not only for East…

What revolutionary theory do we have? By Bosman Batubara (Postdoctoral researcher at Forest City Project) I am grateful to Janwillem Liebrand, Femke van Noorloos, and Marit Meijer for giving me this chance to discuss Christian Lund’s article: An Air of Legality – legalization under conditions of rightlessness in Indonesia, which was published last year in the…