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Indonesia Celebrates 79 Years Of Independence Amid Capital Construction

Indonesia celebrates 79th independence year in evolving capital Nusantara amidst construction challenges and environmental concerns.

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Indonesia Celebrates Independence Day In Unfinished Future Capital

Indonesia celebrates Independence Day in new capital Nusantara amidst construction delays and environmental concerns. President Widodo leads the event in t...

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Indonesia holds unfinished future capital's first Independence Day ceremony

Indonesia is marking 79 years of independence with a ceremony in its future new capital of Nusantara, a city still under construction

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Nusantara: Celebrations planned in Indonesia’s costly ‘symbol of progress’

The new capital is the pet project of outgoing President Joko Widodo and is taking shape on the island of Borneo.

Al Jazeera

Indonesian president holds first cabinet meeting in Nusantara, the nation's future capital

Indonesia is gearing up to inaugurate its new capital Nusantara later this week, on the country's Independence Day. Amid delays and slow private investment, President Joko Widodo hailed the unfinished city as a "canvas on which to draw the future". Yuka Royer takes a closer look at the 30 billion…

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Indonesia's Ambitious Nusantara Capital Project Faces Challenges

President Widodo leads development of Nusantara capital, emphasizing sustainability and private investments in Indonesia's new city.

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Indonesian leader holds first cabinet meeting in unfinished future capital

Indonesian President Joko Widodo held his first cabinet meeting in the future capital of Nusantara, amid miles of construction sites and doubts about the sustainability of the ambitious mega project that remains behind schedule

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Indonesia president begins working from new capital despite construction delays

Nusantara scheduled to host Independence Day celebrations instead of Jakarta next month but relocation plan has come into question

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Indonesian President Joko Widodo Moves To New Capital

President Widodo inaugurates new presidential palace in Nusantara, progressing towards Independence Day celebrations. Infrastructure projects in Nusantara ...

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Indonesian leader starts working in new capital despite construction work and lack of facilities

Indonesian President Joko Widodo, who intends to spend his last few months of his presidency in the country’s ambitious new capital, has begun to work from the new presidential palace there, despite the continuing construction work and lack of first-class facilities

The Independent UK

The 10 Strangest Cities Ever to Bid on the Olympic Games

From countries with no Olympic medalists to nonexistent cities, here are the oddest locales to go for gold.

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Indonesia's leader says 1st phase of new capital is 80% complete and he'll have an office there soon

Indonesian President Joko Widodo says construction of the first phase of the country’s ambitious new capital is 80% complete and he will have an office there once clean water is available in July

The Independent UK

Indonesia wants to start moving civil servants to its still-under-construction capital Nusantara by September. The city’s top officials just resigned

The $32.5 billion project has been beset by construction delays and a lack of outside funding.

Fortune

Jakarta Is Sinking: Indonesia's $30B Plan To Relocate 11M Residents To New Capital Starting October 2024

Indonesia builds new smart capital Nusantara on Borneo to escape Jakarta sinking. First residents are set to move by the end of 2024.

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Lost homes, lost traditions, lost habitats: the cost of Indonesia’s brand new city

Residents of Balikpapan Bay in eastern Borneo dismiss claims that Nusantara will be a sustainable city that coexists with nature

LiveScience

Striking new satellite images show Indonesia's new jungle capital taking shape

Nusantara will be the new capital of Indonesia as Jakarta continues to subside below sea level.

Al Jazeera

Indonesian leader’s son brushes off ‘nepo baby’ tag in feted debate showing

Gibran Rakabuming Raka’s candidacy for the vice presidency has been dogged by accusations of nepotism and inexperience.

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Can you really construct a new megacity in a jungle and convince millions to move there?

Indonesia wants up to 60,000 people to move from Jakarta to populate a new capital city by 2025. But the challenge and logistics of meeting that deadline are daunting.

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Al Jazeera

Q&A: Indonesia’s new capital chief Bambang Susantono

Man in charge of capital project tells Al Jazeera he is confident Nusantara will be a ‘liveable and loveable’ place.

Bangkok Post

New Indonesia capital branded 'ecological disaster'

BALIKPAPAN, Indonesia: The twisting road that leads to Indonesia's future capital is lined with dense rainforest and pockets of plantations, punctuated every so often with monkeys enjoying a laze out on the tarmac.

AFP

New Indonesia capital imperils ancient Eden with 'ecological disaster'

Balikpapan (Indonesia) (AFP) - The twisting road that leads to Indonesia's future capital is lined with dense rainforest and pockets of plantations, punctuated every so often with monkeys enjoying a laze out on the tarmac.

Al Jazeera

Why Indonesia is abandoning its capital city to save it

Indonesia’s capital Jakarta faces such climatic challenges that a new city is being built more than 1,000km away.

The Conversation

With solar and wind energy potential, Indonesia can meet its new capital’s clean energy target

On February 15 2022, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo signed and promulgated a new law that establishes the new capital city of Indonesia, referred to as “Nusantara”, between Balikpapan and Samarinda in East Kalimantan province.

The Conversation

A tale of two cities: why Indonesia is planning a new capital on Borneo – and abandoning Jakarta. Podcast

Indonesia plans to move its capital city from Jakarta on the island of Java to a new forest city on the island of Borneo called Nusantara. We talk to three experts in urban planning and ecology to find out why – and what the environmental impacts of the project could…

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Nusantara is set to be the new capital of Indonesia, but what will happen to Jakarta?

With a new capital — Nusantara — to be built on the island of Borneo, what plans are there for the old capital and how do locals feel about the proposed relocation?

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