Moving Public Space: The Teman Bus Program And Cultural Negotiation In Urban Mobility

Abstract

This article looks at how the "Teman Bus" urban transport program in the Mamminasata metropolitan area of Indonesia has affected culture and society. This study looks at how public buses change into moving social spaces that change how people act and how they move around through the lens of policy anthropology as a cultural agent. Some users of this study value efficiency, order, and modernity, and they feel like they are part of modern society. Others, on the other hand, refuse or adapt in creative ways because deeply rooted informal mobility practices have been disrupted. The rise of new social norms on buses and hybrid mobility strategies show how modernity and tradition are always in conflict in city life. This study says that seeing transport policy as a cultural intervention is important for making urban mobility systems that are more open to everyone and last longer.