Hi, I’m Farid Hanggawan, an Indonesian-qualified lawyer based in Jakarta. Over the past 15 years, I’ve been involved in various legal and policy work, which shaped a deep interest in how law shapes urban futures — and that’s what this blog is really about.
Here, I write about the ideas, questions, and everyday observations that come from my legal consulting work, field research, and time spent walking or cycling through cities — whether commuting, or just through flânerie1 — as I think about law and urban life side by side.
If you’d like to know more about my day-to-day practice, you can find that on the Urban Legal website. Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you find something useful here.
- (pronounced flahn-uh-ree) is a French noun that means the art of strolling or wandering aimlessly through a city or landscape while thoughtfully observing everyday life and surroundings. ↩︎