Indonesia’s rapidly evolving infrastructure landscape—marked by ambitious projects, ecological challenges, and uneven access—calls for an interdisciplinary, if not transdisciplinary, approach. Although the design and construction of infrastructures involve knowledge drawn from engineering, natural sciences, and the social sciences, scholarly engagement with them often remains fragmented and siloed. For example, anthropologists studying infrastructures do so separately from historians and sociologists. There is therefore a pressing need for collaborative intellectual spaces where researchers can critically examine how infrastructure intertwines with questions of power, governance, and environmental justice.
In recent years, Perkumpulan Peneliti Eutenika has taken important steps to foster a growing community of scholars and practitioners concerned with the relationships between science, technology, and society in Indonesia. By bridging disciplinary divides, Eutenika has created a platform for approaching infrastructures not merely as a technical domain, but as a set of cultural and political processes that shape everyday life.
Building on this foundation, the present initiative seeks to create a new infrastructure in its own right, one that strengthens connections within the emerging STS (Science, Technology, and Society) community across Indonesia’s academic and professional landscape. Through this effort, the program aims to cultivate sustained interdisciplinary dialogue, collaborative research, and critical engagement with infrastructure as a key site of social transformation.
This STS School is a joint venture of Perkumpulan Peneliti Eutenika with the Doctoral Program of Sociology, Universitas Brawijaya and the Centre Population et Développement, French Institute for Research on Development.
For more info, please visit: infrastructure.eutenika.org.