The 'unloved' metropolis: making future Jakarta

我的研究兴趣是城市主义、时间性和政治公民的理论交叉点。我的项目旨在了解雅加达准备迁都之际，人们如何协商未来的希望和担忧。在即将到来的首都迁移的框架内，我的研究目的是探索人们在雅加达Tanah Abang中心地区的一个集体项目背景下表达未来轨迹的方式，该地区具有复杂的政治和多元文化历史。在探索城市生活和转型的问题时，我将解决在搬迁场景中纠缠的三个主要问题：(1)居民如何定位自己的未来，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；(3)他们如何在与国家交往时表达自己的政治公民身份。2019年8月底，印尼总统佐科·维多多大张旗鼓地宣布将印尼行政首都从雅加达迁往东加里曼丹的最终决定。搬迁的原因多种多样，但普遍的看法是，雅加达无法承受作为首都的负担。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，造成了一个失败城市的耸人听闻的形象(BBC Indonesia 2019; Medcom。id 2019;美国瓦茨2019)。许多居民也有这种负面的表现，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).