Indonesia

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Indonesia

With over 17,000 islands, Indonesia is the largest island nation in the world and also the largest country in Southeast Asia. Over 280 million people live on almost 2 million square kilometres. The national territory stretches over 5,000 kilometres from east to west and almost 1,900 kilometres from north to south. 

Since 2024, the Chair of Economic Geography, in particular Transport and Logistics, has been cooperating with the largest geography faculty in Indonesia in Jogjakarta on Java:

Reaccreditation of the geography degree programmes at the UGM

The starting point for the cooperative relationship was Prof. Dr Rudolf Juchelka's participation as an expert in an expert committee for the reaccreditation process of the geography degree programmes at the University of Gadja Mada in spring 2024, organised by the ASIIN agency. The Faculty of Geography there is the oldest and, with almost 70 institute staff and 1,200 students, the largest geography location in Indonesia with various Bachelor's and Master's programmes. At the same time, geography is covered in its full breadth of physical and human geography in three departments (Physical Geography, Geographical Information Technologies, Regional Geography). Research and teaching focus on spatial sustainability research.

Visiting lecturer Prof. Dr Dyah (Emma) R. Hizabaron at UDE Geography

In summer 2025, Prof. Dr Dyah (Emma) R. Hizbaron from the Faculty of Geography was invited to spend a week as a visiting lecturer through the UDE's international visiting lecturer programme. She is Vice Dean for Research and Co-operation in her faculty. In her research, the human geographer deals with questions of population geography, resource utilisation and urban development in the context of risk and resilience.

The following lectures were held as part of our regular courses during her stay at the UDE:

  • Mobility and sustainibility in Indonesia
  • Economic geography of Indonesia: resources, disparities and regional integration in southeast asia
  • Indonesia: natural areas and urban spaces in transition

Prof. Hizbaron was accompanied during her stay by Dr Arry Retnowati, whose research focuses on spatial development research.

Future cooperation

The future cooperation between UGM Geography and UDE Geography will focus on the following key areas:

  • Possibility for selected, thematically suitable UGM doctoral students to realise a guest stay at the UDE, this under second supervision of the dissertation project by Prof. Dr Rudolf Juchelka
  • Planning and application for a DAAD-funded short-term lectureship for Prof Dr Rudolf Juchelka at the UGM
  • Development of ideas for research cooperation in the field of transport geography, in particular forms of mobility and tourism in the context of sustainability

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