Within the last decade, Gojek, a centralised urban mobility application, became the most vivid form of infrastructure across the Indonesian archipelago, accommodating vast pools of workers and governing the circulation of people and everyday items in cities. Digitally mediated sharing economy prove to be, nonetheless, practical solutions that are firmly rooted in and moulded by urban realities, as much as they are widely imagined as virtual orchestrators of electronic data through disparate mobile devices. Some earlier scholars have argued that digital technologies would make cities obsolete (Graham and Marvin, 1996), and assert that revolutions in communication will completely distort our relationship with space (Taylor, 2011). Scholarly literature on the expanding economy of platforms, has so far lacked a full appreciation of how profoundly the phenomenon has been shaped by urban conditions (Davidson et al., 2018). This dissertation is an intervention into the burgeoning genre of platform studies, exploring the roots and impacts of a novel form of urban infrastructure that is now ubiquitous in Indonesia.
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