Luthfi Adam on Chronicles with Bagus Muljadi
In this conversation with Bagus Muljadi on Chronicles, I use the history of the Bogor Botanical Gardens as a starting point for larger questions about science, empire, and the making of knowledge. Who produces scientific knowledge, whose expertise is appropriated or forgotten, and how have colonial histories shaped the institutions through which we understand nature today? The conversation moves beyond colonial botany to consider the place of history and the humanities in societies increasingly shaped by science and technology. I also reflect on what decolonising knowledge might mean in practice, how historians can engage more deeply with contemporary scientific and planetary challenges, and how Indonesia might become not simply a consumer of global knowledge but an important site for its production, circulation, and critical evaluation.
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