The 'unloved' metropolis: making future Jakarta

我的研究兴趣位于都市主义、临时性和政治公民权理论的交叉点上。我的项目旨在了解在雅加达准备将首都从目前的位置搬迁之际，人们如何协商未来的希望和关切。在即将到来的资本转移的框架内，我的研究目的是探索人们如何在雅加达中心区塔纳阿邦(Tanah Abang)的一个集体项目的背景下阐明未来的轨迹，该地区有着复杂的政治和多元文化历史。在探讨城市生活和转型的问题时，我将解决与搬迁方案相关的三个主要问题：(1)居民如何面向未来，将他们的希望转化为空间转型(2)他们如何在转型空间中表达自己的身份，以及(3)他们如何在与国家接触时阐明自己的政治公民身份。2019年8月底，印度尼西亚总统佐科·维多多大张旗鼓地宣布了将印尼行政首都从雅加达迁至东加里曼丹的最终决定。搬迁的原因是多方面的，也是复杂的，但一个共同的观点是，雅加达无法承受首都的负担。事实上，这个特大城市面临着严重的环境问题，如污染、洪水、下沉和人口过剩(Goh 2019)。当地和国际报纸经常报道雅加达的问题，助长了一个失败城市的耸人听闻的形象(BBC印度尼西亚2019年；Medcom.id 2019年；瓦茨2019年)。这种负面的表现也被许多居民所认同，以至于雅加达被广泛地定义为“不受欢迎的”大都市(Steinberg 2007：356)。

My research interests sit at the intersection of theorisations of urbanism, temporality and political citizenship. My project is designed to gain an understanding of how people negotiate future hopes and concerns as Jakarta prepares for the relocation of the capital from its current location. Within the framework of the upcoming capital move, the intent of my research is to explore the ways in which people articulate future trajectories in the context of a collective project in Jakarta's central district of Tanah Abang, which has a complex history of politics and multiculturalism. In exploring issues of urban life and transformation, I am to address three main issues that are entangled in the relocation scenario: (1) how residents orient themselves to the future, translating their hope into spatial transformations (2) how they articulate their identity within a transforming space, and (3) how they articulate their political citizenship as they engage with the state.At the end of August 2019, the Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced with great fanfare the final decision to relocate the Indonesian administrative capital from Jakarta to East Kalimantan. The reasons for relocation are various and complex, but a shared opinion is that Jakarta is failing to sustain the burden of a capital city. In fact, the megalopolis suffers from severe environmental issues such as pollution, floods and sinking and overpopulation (Goh 2019). Newspapers, both local and international, frequently report Jakarta's issues, contributing to an often sensationalist image of a failed city (few examples BBC Indonesia 2019; Medcom.id 2019; Watts 2019). This negative representation is also shared by many inhabitants, so much so that Jakarta is broadly defined as the 'unloved' metropolis (Steinberg 2007: 356).