This project explores the impact of decentralization, or regional autonomy (otonomi daerah) as it is called locally, on Indonesia’s increasingly complex urban development landscape. Growing urbanization and democratic decentralization over the past decade have cast into relief issues relating to environmental sustainability, urban governance and development, the role of the private sector, social cohesion and public participation. The project considers how state and non-state actors see themselves within this rapidly changing environment and the range of choices available to them in order to further our understanding of why some autonomous urban jurisdictions thrive under the new system while others continue to stagnate in the margins of development.

PI: Michelle Miller