Picture a nation undergoing a profound urban revolution. Indonesia is committed to the development of 100 smart cities and currently builds a new capital inspired by the United Nations' sustainable development goals. Yet, amidst its impressive progress, Indonesia grapples with disparities, particularly between urban and rural areas, which manifest in infrastructure deficits and limited access to essential services such as infrastructure, health and education. Throughout the program, you'll delve into these complex issues and explore how your insights and ideas can contribute to bridging these gaps.

This program aligns with the Indonesia – Netherlands Universities Consortium on Sustainable Futures (INUCoST), in which the LDE universities and their Indonesian partners focus on crucial themes such as Energy Transition, Water Quality Management, Biodiversity, Digitalizing Society, Public Health, Heritage and Tourism. Concepts like co-creation and citizen science will be your guides as you explore how Indonesia is shaped by its potential future scenarios. Utilizing mixed methods such as multimodal ethnography, design, and prototyping, you will make the future tangible and engage in meaningful discourse.

The Future Challenges LAB is to be held entirely in Indonesia. In executing this joint minor, collaboration is sought with the Faculty of Social Sciences at Universitas Indonesia. The program's coordination is meticulously managed from the LDE-KITLV office in Indonesia and conducted at the Depok Campus of Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, where students will stay for three months. For the successful execution of the joint minor, LDE students are privileged to collaborate with peers from five local partner universities across various disciplines, fostering a multidisciplinary and enriching educational experience.

Reasons to choose a Leiden-Delft-Erasmus minor:

1. Joint education by three top-class universities.
2. Important societal challenges and new solutions.
3. Educators and students from different academic fields.
4. Cases by companies, governments and NGOs.
5. Expand your network in Leiden, Den Haag, Delft and Rotterdam.

More Leiden-Delft-Erasmus minors

• Admission requirements: This minor is open to all students of Leiden University, TU Delft and Erasmus University Rotterdam. No special prior knowledge is required and part of the program will be a beginners' course in Bahasa Indonesia.
• Number of places: Between 12 and 25 students can participate (see the link below for numbers for each minor), plus an equal number of peers from the Indonesian partner universities. Due to the presence in Indonesia, it is not possible to follow only the first block of 15 EC.
• Language: All Leiden-Delft-Erasmus minors are taught in English.
• Credits: All minors have a coherent program of 30 EC. It is possible to only follow the first block of 15 EC. Attending the full length of this minor (30 ECTS) is recommended.
• Location: All lectures and working groups take place in Jakarta and neighboring Indonesian cities.
• Applications: You apply for a Leiden-Delft-Erasmus minor via eduXchange.
• Selection: Not a selection minor. 

Knowledge exchange

The LDE minor Future Challenges Lab deals with the current case of moving the Indonesian capital to Borneo. Leiden-Delft-Erasmus dean Wim van den Doel has laid the groundwork for a knowledge exchange in recent years, and this minor is a result of that. In the hands of Bart Barendregt, professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Leiden, the minor has taken further shape in close cooperation with the Institute for Social Studies in The Hague.

Of particular note is that the place of employment is Jakarta. Barendregt: 'The entire minor is coordinated from Indonesia for three months. Students from the three LDE universities and Indonesia are participating. This is how we bring different worlds into contact with each other.'