Drastic funding cuts, construction delays and dwindling population cast doubt on future of megaproject, say media reports - ...

Indonesia’s ambitious new capital project, Nusantara, faces uncertainty as construction lags behind schedule and the new ...

Jakarta is congested, polluted, prone to earthquakes and rapidly sinking into the Java Sea. Now the government is in the process of leaving, moving Indonesia’s capital to the island of Borneo.

A new regulation calls the city a ‘political capital’, fuelling uncertainty over the future of Joko Widodo’s legacy project.

On 15 February 2022, the Indonesian Government formalised its intention to relocate the capital from Jakarta to an undeveloped area in Kalimantan island, to be named “Nusantara” under Law No. 3 of ...

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JAKARTA — Indonesia’s president has replaced the head of the country’s new capital city, in a surprise shakeup just weeks before the controversial $32 billion project officially opens on Borneo island ...

Jakarta is the world's second-largest city and the capital of Indonesia, but it is sinking into the sea. This is the race to ...

Jakarta, Indonesia’s biggest city, has been free of Dutch rule for about 70 years — but the lasting effects of colonialism are far from over. Case in point, the city is sinking into the surrounding ...