The workshop format provided extensive room for discussions and allowed interdisciplinary exchanges and debates. Various approaches and issues were raised during the workshop; new (project-) ideas were generated and collaborations fostered across disciplines and countries. In the concluding discussion, participants agreed to continue exchange. A follow-up workshop is envisaged for March 2016 in Palangkaraya, Kalimantan. An initial outcome of the workshop will be a special issue with a focus on "Contested Development", produced in collaboration with the Austrian Journal ASEAS. Another special issue with JoRI (Journal of Rural Indonesia) will focus on “Ethnicity”.
The workshop is financed as part of a grant provided by the DFG (German Research Foundation) to support the initiation of international collaboration. As primary collaboration partner, Dr. Suraya Afiff (University of Indonesia) will be a guest visitor at the University of Passau in 2016.
The workshop is a further step towards the planned research project “Contested Development – Gender and Ethnicity in Mining. The Case of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia”, initiated by Prof. Dr. Martina Padmanabhan and Dr. Kristina Großmann.