About

I am an urban geographer interested in the geopolitical economy of extended urbanisation in Indonesia and the Global South more broadly. My doctoral research, titled Nusantara in the Interregnum: Infrastructure-led Development and Technopolitics in the Production of Indonesia’s New Capital City situates the emergence of Indonesia’s greenfield capital city in the conjunctural histories of capitalist development and urbanisation. It reconstructs the preconditions for such a spectacular project and challenges prominent narratives of the driving forces behind Nusantara.

I am a recipient of the London Arts & Humanities Partnership Doctoral Training Partnership (LAHP DTP) studentship, funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC). I hold an MPhil in Human Geography from the University of Oslo and a BEng in Urban and Regional Planning at Bandung Institute of Technology.