By bno - Jakarta bureau When I think of Jakarta, I picture gleaming skyscrapers, packed shopping centres and traffic that ...

In recent years, rising sea levels have made Jakarta the world's fastest-sinking megacity, which sparked the Indonesian government's decision to move the capital. Take a closer look at Nusantara.

Jakarta is facing all sorts of problems - deadly floods, land subsidence, extreme pollution, notorious traffic and overcrowding. Indonesia’s outgoing president has come up with an extreme ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - An Indonesian crew member was killed when motor vessel (MV) Serdal sank in Seychelles on May 29, 2025.

Jakarta — the fastest-sinking city in the world — has finally taken action on its core land subsidence problem when groundwater free zones for highrise buildings will start to be established ...

Rendering of future 150-metre tall presidential palace at the heart of Nusantara (Photo: AFP) Ambitious plans are in place to relocate an entire sinking city 1,200 miles away to a large island ...

Jakarta, a megacity built on a delta, is sinking rapidly and floods often. Jakarta — Apart from the narrow, unpaved road, the two-meter-high concrete coastal wall is the only thing that ...

Our neighbour Indonesia has not been spared with its capital Jakarta now under threat of being submerged after it began sinking over the past few decades. Often, such a phenomenon is attributed to ...

Researchers like Heri Andreas and Hiroshi Takagi doubt that the giant embankment is the ultimate solution to Jakarta's sinking threat. "Yes, in the short term, it’s non-negotiable that the embankment ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The pressing issues of climate change have led to some of the world’s major distressing occurrences in recent years, with sinking lands and sea levels rising being particular ...

Indonesia is reviving plans to construct a giant sea wall in the latest of measures to prevent its capital city of Jakarta from sinking at a faster rate. The project will require three phases of ...