Dhimas Bayu Anindito

One obvious response to this - especially today - is that we need the humanities for science. Less obvious, but no less important, is that we need science to have the humanities.

World City Populations Interactive Map 1975-2050 An interactive map of city populations across the globe, exploring the changes between 1975 and 2050. Identify the world's fastest growing cities and regions, and urbanisation cycles of growth and dec...

I've updated the World City Population interactive map with the new UN World Urbanization Prospects 2025 data. The WUP 2025 has a new methodology resulting in substantial changes to population estimates for the world's largest urban agglomerations- luminocity3d.org/WorldCity/

Dhimas with fellow PhD students Arjama and Emil standing in front of Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território da Universidade de Lisboa (IGOT-ULisboa) monument

A glance of scenic Lisbon with Vasco da Gama Bridge from afar

Really happy to have a break from London life with pretty scenic view in coastal area like Lisbon, but definitely ecstatic to share the struggles of doing a doctoral study with my fellows here. Can't wait to attend the next conference in two years!

Last week I presented my doctoral study about digital participation in Jakarta at 4th Digital Geographies Conference in Lisbon. My presentation was included in Special Session 5 - Putting Information into Spatial Structures: Approaches in Localising Information and Knowledge.

A hybrid session on “Unveiling Hidden Geographies: Creative Representations of Urban Geopolitics” with Houwei chairing the session and Nurul being the timekeeper.

I also convened a hybrid session titled “Unveiling Hidden Geographies: Creative Representations of Urban Geopolitics” with Houwei Fu and Nurul Atikah Ramli. Our session was sponsored by Political Geography Research Group—to which we’re so grateful 🥳

I got a very interesting question directed to all presenters in my session: “What is the genealogy of your study so that you’re now studying political geography?”

Well, considering my background in urban planning and urban analytics, the question means a lot.

Lanyard with Dhimas’ name

The first session of ‘New and Emerging Research in Political Geography’. There’s Dhimas’ laptop and tumbler.

Dhimas is presenting his research on citizen reporting system in Jakarta

Last week I presented my PhD research at @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference in one of ‘New and Emerging Research in Political Geography’ sessions. Thank you for the convenors for creating a space for an invigorating discussion!

What they should have talked about in human rights cities: The advocacy of overlooked disability rights in Wonosobo, Indonesia - Dhimas Bayu Anindito, 2025 This article examines the contested integration of disability rights within the human rights city framework of Wonosobo, Indonesia, through the conceptual lens ...

Nonetheless, the question remains: How can human rights cities move beyond branding to ensure sustainable, inclusive practices for all?

Link for article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

(4/4)

This study contributes to widening the conversation on human rights city by bringing Global South and small city perspectives into view. It also highlights the need to ensure that persons with disabilities are not only included symbolically but empowered as co-creators of the right to the city (3/n)

Using the concept of "overlooked-ness", not only did human rights city become an overlooked concept in Indonesian urban planning literature, but also how the rights of person with disabilities became overlooked within Wonosobo human rights city framework (2/n)

An article titled "What they should have talked about in human rights cities: The advocacy of overlooked disability rights in Wonosobo, Indonesia" which was published by Environmental and Planning C: Politics and Space

My newest article is now published by @politicsandspace.bsky.social!

I investigate the notion of human rights city and how it is vernacularised into peripheral Global South city of Wonosobo, Indonesia. I took the example of education as proximity-based rights for person with disabilities (1/n)

Many thanks to ASEAS UK for sponsoring my accommodation and Srinakharinwirot University for hosting us!

Last month I attended Association of South East Studies UK International PhD Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand. While I am a first timer in area studies, I gained a lot of great inputs for my doctoral study, particularly as spatial methodologies remain understudied in public participation.

Some would say it’s an inevitable milestone but personally it’s a huge one: Alhamdulillah I’m officially a Doctoral Candidate 🥳

Thank you so much @citygeographics.bsky.social and @sjg.dev for your immense support and guidance during the first year of my PhD!

I really appreciate the Committee as the conference’s vibes was great, with so many peers having great topics on a wide array of geography. Quite a lesson to be more selective on choosing conferences in the future.

Me in front of RGS-IBG buildings

Me presenting the conceptual framework I’m using in my doctoral study. I proposed three factors influencing scaling process within citizen reporting systems: economies of scale, politics of scale, and sociolinguistics of scale.

Last week I represented @casaucl.bsky.social at @rgsibg.bsky.social’s Postgraduate Mid-Term Conference by presenting my doctoral study in the Geographies of Citizenship session. Definitely special as I got interesting inputs and encouragement for my upgrade viva next week!

Have to mention my very supportive supervisors @citygeographics.bsky.social and @sjg.dev for their guidance and encouraging spirit!

- Age data is unreliable! But the report content remains important anyway
- Pre-determined agenda of government manifest in the design of citizen reporting systems.
- Further investigations needed to see the economic, political, and sociolinguistic dimensions of citizen reporting platforms.

Initial findings:
- Citizen reporting systems are among emerging means of digital public participation
- Different areas have higher values of socio-economic and demographic variables of digital participation
- Only 4 variables of reporting behaviour can explain 89.2% of report counts [cont.]

The entrance to AAG 2025 venue in Detroit

Dhimas is presenting his doctoral study in Social Media Geopolitics session

It’s been long overdue (~1 month!) but I presented my initial findings in Social Media Geopolitics session at #AAG2025 in Detroit last month—all thanks to @casaucl.bsky.social Doctoral Student Conference Fund. My study revolves on digital participation in Jakarta, using government-app called Qlue.

Of course, as it’s paywalled, hit me up for the article!

The Long and Winding Road of Urban Growth: The Case of Small Cities along Trans-Java Toll Road The operation of the Trans-Java Toll Road has influenced the development of nearby small cities in various ways. Using samples of twelve small cities along the Trans-Java Toll Road, this article in...

We argue for integrated spatial planning to support the emergence of these cities, which are also underrepresented in planning literature.

The link for the article is here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We employed quantitative & spatial analysis and found three dominating patterns of megaregionalisation process in Java Island: small cities supporting metropolitan areas, small cities showing a strong pattern of desakota formation process, and small cities slowly emerging as sub-centres.

Officially opening up 2025 publication year with this piece!

This study investigates the interplay between megaproject development, i.e. Trans-Java Toll Road, and the surrounding small- and medium-sized cities in Indonesia.

Here is GIScience.