On Wednesday, 19 February 2025,’s Faculty of Geography and Faculty of Forestry hosted a Studium Generale on Regional Development. This event, part of the “Following Frontiers of the Forest City” research collaboration, brought together experts to discuss sustainable and inclusive urbanization in Kalimantan and beyond. In the session Femke van Noorloos (Utrecht University) and Rijanta (Universitas…

Join us on February 18th for an engaging Friends of the Future seminar with Kei Otsuki, professor of International Development Studies at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning here at Utrecht University. Otsuki will share insights from ‘Following Frontiers of the Forest City In this seminar. The research project evolves around the highly contested plan…

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…