{"id":1709,"date":"2026-10-23T17:43:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T08:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.gsid.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/blog\/fieldwork\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2026-10-23T17:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T08:43:20","slug":"ofw2026-in-malang-indonesia-one-bamboo-forest-three-lenses-eight-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.gsid.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/blog\/fieldwork\/2026\/10\/23\/ofw2026-in-malang-indonesia-one-bamboo-forest-three-lenses-eight-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"OFW2026 in Malang, Indonesia: One Bamboo Forest, Three Lenses, Eight Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

OFW2026 took place from September 13 to 26, 2026, in Sanankerto Village, Malang Regency, East Java, Indonesia, with Universitas Brawijaya (UB) as our host university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s group was truly international. Ten students from eight countries took part: China, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines and Sri Lanka. Japanese students were only a small part of the group, and most participants came from Indonesia\u2019s Asian neighbours. UB faculty and students worked alongside us throughout the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All three groups studied the same place: Boon Pring, a bamboo forest and spring area that the village enterprise (BUMDes) runs as an ecotourism site. Each group looked at it through a different lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n