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This paper will be based on our reflection of experiences in conducting an ethnography on informal sovereignty and the transportation-infrastructure transition in Yogyakarta. The study itself was a collaborative work between a number of researchers affiliated with Indonesian and Canadian universities, using participant observation, interviews, and archival work with different transportation mode around the research setting. Our position as a team member was not only defined by our background as anthropology graduates, but also our place (the field) in the social world we were researching (Hannerz 2010), as residents of Yogyakarta, user/former user, non-user of certain modes of urban transportations. In a way, as this panel suggests, this paper will discuss our positionality (as researchers and as resident), constraints, and challenges within collaborative fieldwork in anthropology such as in our case.