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In this year’s Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Inaya Rakhmani, ARC UI’s Cluster Leader for Producing Knowledge on Asia, shared a panel with Juli Sastrawan (Penerbit Partikular), Marissa Saraswati (Anotasi), and Annisa R. Beta (University of Melbourne). The session examined the evolving landscape of alternative knowledge production in Indonesia, focusing on how educational institutions, media platforms, and independent publishing initiatives can collectively promote inclusion, solidarity, and critical perspectives. The discussion highlighted the potential for these sectors to create new spaces for knowledge-making within dominant systems that often shape, limit, or privilege certain narratives. A central question guiding the conversation was: Who is allowed to produce knowledge? Speakers reflected on the ways in which authority, access, and institutional norms influence whose voices are legitimised in public discourse.
By foregrounding diverse modes of knowledge production, the session encouraged broader recognition of community-led expertise and highlighted the importance of cultivating inclusive, reflexive, and socially engaged approaches to understanding Indonesia’s socio-political realities.