This documentary series is an audio presentation to the USF Seminar Series “Overlooked Cities in Asia: Interrogating blind fields in urban knowledge and praxes” in Bandung, Indonesia, 6-8 September 2023.
More than 12,000 refugees and asylum seekers are living in Indonesia, a non-signatory country to the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 protocols. With only one Presidential Regulation and no following technical guidance, each city responds to the issue differently, hence the different level of service availability and access to refugees. Often forgotten is the granularity of those decisions; what each local government decides to do has a great influence toward how refugees live their days while ‘in transit’ in Indonesia.
This audio series aims to show how refugees in a state of liminality in Indonesia experience their cities. We will follow the account of a young Hazara refugee from Afghanistan on his journey to establish himself as an emerging writer and film director since his arrival in Indonesia as an unaccompanied minor in 2014.
Music Credit: The Epic Hero by Keys of Moon on Soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. The music is used in the subject’s latest work, “Fighting Forward”.
