This week, Indonesia is slated to inaugurate a brand new city. Nusantara is set to become the capital of the world’s fourth most populous country. And the city’s construction comes with a ...

August 17, 2024, the country's Independence Day, has long been marked in the calendar as the day when Nusantara, Indonesia's new capital city, will be officially inaugurated. It's the signature ...

An undeveloped tract of jungle on an island known more for orangutans than lawmaking may seem an unlikely place to construct a new capital city. However, for Indonesia, the primitive landscape of ...

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 ...

Indonesia is building a new capital city from scratch to deal with rising sea levels. The new city, Nusantara, was set to be operational in October. But things are not going according to plan.

The decision to move the capital from Jakarta, which has served as Indonesia's political and economic hub since independence in 1945, stems from the city's severe environmental and infrastructural ...

NUSANTARA, Indonesia — Like many of the world ... “I never thought the capital city would be here.” Titin, 33, relocated from the closest city, Balikpapan, two years ago and opened a ...

The new city was announced in 2019. “As a large nation that has been independent for 74 years, Indonesia has never chosen its own capital,” Widodo said in a televised speech. “The burden ...

JAKARTA, June 3 (Reuters) - The head and deputy head of the body overseeing Indonesia's planned new capital have unexpectedly resigned, raising questions about the $32 billion project. With ...

It's not every week that a country gets a new capital city, but that's what is in line for Indonesia in the coming days — in theory at least. August 17, 2024, the country's Independence Day ...