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17 October 2024On the 17th of October Following Forest member Bosman Batubara gave a presentation which identified three distinct yet related qualitative moments of landscape subsumption under capital based on how value is produced and extracted in the location of Indonesia’s new capital city. Logging extraction started in the 1960s in that area provides an example of formal subsumption of landscape under more… |
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26 September 2024During the Week of Indonesia-Netherlands Education and Research (WINNER), Dr. Kei Otsuki, Dr. Ari Susanti, and Dr. Rijanta participated in an insightful session addressing Indonesia’s ongoing urban transformation and the pressing need for inclusive development. Hosted by WINNER, an initiative involving institutions like BRIN, ALMI, KNAW, Nuffic Southeast Asia, and government bodies from more… |
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22 August 2024On August 22, 2024, Dr. Kei Otsuki delivered a guest lecture at BRIN (The National Research and Innovation Agency) focusing on the ecological, social, and economic impacts of Indonesia’s new capital, Ibu Kota Nusantara (IKN). Titled “Following Frontiers of the Forest City,” her lecture provided critical insights into the complex dynamics shaping this ambitious development project. Dr. Otsuki discussed the risk of IKN becoming an isolated more… |
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19 August 2024On August 19th, Dr. Kei Otsuki held a public lecture at Mulawarman University, sharing insights into the sustainability and inclusivity of Indonesia’s capital relocation to Kalimantan. Dr. Otsuki’s lecture, grounded in a multidisciplinary approach developed through Indonesia-Dutch research collaboration, examined how more… |
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7 August 2024On August 7th, Dr. Kei Otsuki, and Dr. Ari Susanti of the Following Frontiers project, participated in a collaborative discussion at the University of Gadjah Mada (UGM) exploring the development challenges posed by Indonesia’s new capital, Nusantara. Hosted by UGM’s Faculty of Geography and Faculty of Forestry, the event examined more… |
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24 July 2024Following Frontiers team members Vandy Yoga Swara, Rizki Adriadi Ghiffari, Agung Jauhari, and Dr. Ari Susanti presented their research projects at the EuroSEAS 2024 conference, hosted by the University of Amsterdam (UvA). This event celebrates a legacy of Southeast Asian studies that dates back decades, with roots in the work of UvA Professor W.F. Wertheim, who was more… |
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10 July 2024In July, Femke van Noorloos presented her insights on “Urban Fair Transitions” at a LANDac Summer School. The Summer School focused on social justice within global environmental transitions and looked at the pressing reality that climate initiatives, designed for global benefits, often impose disproportionate burdens on marginalized communities. This is more… |
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8-9 July 2024The 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 17 August 2024. The event was initiated with a brief introduction more… |
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11 March 2024Our Postdoctoral researcher, Bosman Batubara, along with his colleagues, has published a paper discussing the urban poor settlement ‘kampungkota’ in North Jakarta, revealing the interplay of direct actions and electoral politics in securing housing rights, and offering insights for sustainable and inclusive urbanization in the ‘Forest City’ project in Kalimantan…more |
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8 February 2024Our researchers (Bosman Batubara and Kei Otsuki), will present a study on China’s capital expansion into Indonesia’s nickel industry at the 2024 SMAIAS-ASN Summer School…more |
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21 January 2024Postdoctoral researcher Bosman Batubara was invited by Kafe Habitat as a discussant for the livestreamed 2024 Indonesian Vice-Presidential Candidates Debate, which focused on sustainable development and related topics….more |
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11 October 2023WINNER conference, session ‘Making cities sustainable in climate change’, panelist, Kei Otsuki…more |
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26 September 2023Bosman was invited to a public lecture at Unika Soegijapranata. He emphasized the need to consider the broader impacts of the Indonesia new capital city’s development, using rocks as a metaphor for the four-dimensional urbanization process…more |
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22 August 2023Bosman Batubara, Forest city’s postdoctoral researcher, served as a speaker at UKSW’s Development Studies Seminar, attributing Nusantara City’s land and rent price surge to “speculative rents” rather than capitalism’s surplus value….more |
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11-12 August 2023Field visit in Sepaku district highlighted the transformation of riverbanks into ports for the new capital city’s construction and the development of the Sepaku Semoi Dam for water supply and flood control…more |
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10 August 2023Launch of Nusantara Centre (http://nusantara-center.org/) and public lecture by Rijanta and Kei Otsuki, at BRIDA, East Kalimantan Province…more |
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10 August 2023Forest City Research Consortium Engages in Constructive Dialogue with East Kalimantan Provincial Government on Nusantara Capital City Development…more |
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9 August 2023Public lecture ‘Kalimantan as a Frontier for Sustainable Development’ by Kei Otsuki at ITK…more |
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7 August 2023Public lecture ‘Studying Frontiers of Development in Indonesia’ by Rijanta and Kei Otsuki in UGM…more |
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3 July 2023The ‘Following Frontiers of the Forest City in Kalimantan, Indonesia’ workshop, organized by the Dutch side of the team, involves all project members studying the implications of this major project. The workshop’s goal is to facilitate the idea exchange, question formulation, and draft a potential research agenda for further exploration…more |
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30 June 2023Reaction to Christian Lund’s article at the closing session of 2023 IOS Fair Transition/LANDac International Conference…more |
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30 May 2023Our postdoctoral researcher, Bosman Batubara, was a guest lecturer at Universitas Sulawesi Barat, Indonesia, presenting his research on speculative rent in the Nusantara capital city…more |
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10 May 2023Vandy Yoga Swara, our doctoral researcher, presented his study on water justice and governance in Nusantara at a public discussion by SIMPUL IKN. He stressed the need to view water and urban water infrastructure as a hydro-social entity for sustainable and inclusive urbanization…more |