An undeveloped tract of jungle on an island known more for orangutans than lawmaking may seem an unlikely place to construct ...

Jakarta, with about 10 million people in the city limits and three ... of about 275 million, Indonesia is Southeast Asia’s largest economy. Most of the new capital's investors are Indonesian ...

toward an Indonesia based on innovation and technology ... to the ambitious project amid a global pandemic. “The new capital city’s strategic environmental study shows that there are at ...

Why Indonesia's capital Jakarta is sinking Air pollution ... But critics have argued that the construction of the new city will lead to the expansion of palm-oil plantations and logging in an ...

Indonesia is moving its capital city away from Jakarta ... chosen to relocate the capital in "an important decision". The new location is not yet known. However state media reports one of the ...

Indonesia plans to move its capital city away from congested and sinking ... according to a copy of the new law dated March 18 seen by Reuters. Home Affairs Minister Tito Karnavian said after ...

Indonesia's future capital, Nusantara, is under construction, but some believe that it will be difficult to replace Jakarta as the country's administrative and economic center. Source: AP / AP ...

The Garuda Palace is expected to provide the backdrop to Independence Day celebrations that will inaugurate the new capital on August 17. Joko Widodo said yesterday that the new city is on ...

Today, however, people in Jenebora worry Indonesia’s largest construction site yet, a vast new city to serve as the nation’s capital, could sink the fishing economy that has sustained families for ...

Indonesia prefers to partner with other countries, not China, in building its new capital city. That's a wake-up call for Beijing. There are a variety of rationales put forward for the decision to ...

Construction of Indonesia’s vast new capital city on the east coast of Borneo has prompted a surge in port traffic in Balikpapan Bay, elevating existing pressures on the belt of mangroves lining ...