Pop Up Discussion Series

The Pop Up Discussion (PUD) a series of online webinars aimed at disseminating knowledge and initiating a discussion with a broader audience regarding refugee management in Indonesia, including the situation during the COVID-19 pandemic. The PUD series also aimed to solicit ideas on incorporating urban refugee issues into urban development, as well as seeking inspiration from Thailand and Malaysia cases. The targeted audiences are students, practitioners, and advocates of refugees as well as refugee communities and individuals interested in refugee issues.

The PUD series entertains four main questions that were spread into its eight installments. The questions are: how is the state of foreign refugees governance in Indonesia? How do local governments manage urban refugees in their area? Who are the stakeholders in Indonesian refugee management? What are the possible pathways for a better practice of Urban Refugee management at the city level? In addition to the above questions, one session was dedicated to tackling refugee management during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This PUD series is held fortnightly through online platforms (Zoom and YouTube channel) starting in August 2020 to November 2020. The PUD series offered a networking platform for participants to engage with leading refugee experts, researchers, and practitioners on refugee issues. The discussion formats were set in light and casual styles to be more appealing to the target audiences. In PUD 4, RDI UREF collaborated with PechaKucha Night Jogjakarta, an Indonesian licensed-holder of a pop storytelling platform PechaKucha.  The overall PUD series was structured in an introduction, presentations (each followed with highlights and quick Q&A from the moderator), Q&A sessions, and a group photo session of all participants.