Adara Salsabila S (1906316250)

Insurgent planner: Transgressing the Fadhilah Nuhaa (1906383923)

Putri Diny (1906317625)
technocratic state of postcolonial Jakarta Juliano Farrell (1906316566)
Prathiwi Widyatmi Putri
 clashing interests between the
eviction cases in Jakarta
gov and the kampung people
housing+ informal business units

modernist doctrine for optimizing the

the urban questions industrial capitalism James Holston: ‘participatory
planning’ as a tool for advancing the
advancing planning
cause of ‘insurgent planning’
and architecture

active emancipation of
marginalised citizens

how could we establish channels for critical debate and defining the ‘insurgent planner’ conceptualise a new discipline
alternative practices in urban policy making and planning? that is collective and
participatory in nature
parallel spheres of insurgency
political
responding to how hegemonic everyday living space
requires another kind of disruption to create and
institutionalise a new form of governance

technical-political sphere of insurgency

normative insurgent sphere how land is allocated,
how water resources
enacted as a political space in which an are controlled and
undemocratic state and its marginalising distributed, and how
functions or impacts can be opposed. livelihood viability is
maintained
- helps disadvantaged groups
- creates heterogeneous society
- diverse materialisation of citizenship
at the very local level
- very social env, politically (risky)
insurgent undertake the politics of planning – habituating and construct new social ways to produce human
maintaining the materiality of planning technocracy and settlements and the state
planners bureaucracy while simultaneously advocating a new
universal citizenship

disrupting the modernist space that

life quality improvement and more egalitarian daily social
dominates today’s construction of societal
relations.
space

preventing short-period development

the normative and the everyday technical-political –

become the single indivisible arena of the insurgent
planner.
 the conceptual lens of ‘insurgent planning’ understanding Jakarta’s urban conflicts
→ engage with the field! and structure–agency dynamics

reveal the historically embedded character of the ‘insurgent planner’ within particular trajectories of the Indonesian social movement.

Ciliwung Merdeka
conducted advocacy and observing Kampung as an informal
litigation for groups of evicted settlement, self-built houses on the
communities periphery of the developed urban centre

participatory method:
- joined several forums, seven court sessions of
the cases that was filed by the organisation;
- lived on and off in Bukit Duri and interacted with
20 inhabitants.
the dream: more - participatory observations and several sessions
inclusive Jakarta of recorded interviews, from 30 to 90 minutes
including 5 households on different occasions in
social housing provided by the provincial
government for those evicted from Bukit Duri
and Kampung Pulo

show the range of (potential)

interview method:
political space it created, and
- eight hours long recording in total (consisted of
the further opportunities that
conversations with four people who were
may be captured and
evicted but resisted relocation to social housing
cultivated by other actors
blocks)
 the power to rule the production of
violence
space

embodied within the normalcy of

rational planning
rational
human activities

simplifying complex problems and homogenising

a limit; because to rationalize means to simplify
categorizations of the social-ecological nature

planning discontents that arose in the colonial period – lack of satisfaction with the processes
and impacts of race-based a practices – resulted, in post- independence jakarta, only in
remedies that enhanced a technocratic hope for the modern city.
 the polarization between the elites
and the rest

- sukarno era: expansion of land and planning that

happened to be introduced before the independence
maintains the low status of kampungs
- suharto era: facilitated a ballooning real estate
development

kampung is not a part of the equation

As for contemporary Jakarta, the cycle of failure and violence in planning repeats itself.
i.e. in soeharto’s era evictions, consulted or not, along the river beds of ciliwung
Locking electoral promises in housing and land use planning

2012 election “Digeser bukan digusur”

Reformasi era
Jokowi Social housing Kampung susun
Political atmosphere

Gained votes

Opportunity for the poor to gain greater

control
Insurgent planning agendas Kampung revitalization program
Gain political space for self governing Planning on their
kampungs terms

Ciliwung Merdeka

Promise was broken Change of political atmosphere

Locking electoral promises in housing and land use planning

Some community groups go on

Political contract
with the fight worked with
Jaringan Rakyat Miskin Kota
(JRMK)

Kampung revitalisation Votes

programme

opportunity to awaken convicted

people that their collective power
matters and to establish their own
development agenda

Planners, architects, groups of Inclusion of ‘community action plans’ as a key Communities entered the political
intellectuals spatial planning procedure and position kampungs contract
as a special zone within the land use plan

Planning be made accountable in

serving all citizens equally
Conclusion:

A (new) public domain and the role of insurgent planner

Ciliwung Merdeka

Transgressive institution
- Without overlooking the potential role of
Community collective technocrat planners
Insurgent planner
Social movements
- Operate within existing statutory agencies

Collective decision making

Political bodies of Judiciary

insurgent planning Electoral systems

Influence the public Address state- society Norm of inclusivity and

production of space relationship spatial justice
For co production
Transforming existing processes in governing
institutions towards built environments
and social relation

Liberating citizenship