In 2022, Indonesia passed a law outlining the relocation’s funding and governance. The commission in charge of planning the new city said it was “imperative” to relocate the capital from ...

Nusantara Capital Authority (IKN) head Basuki Hadimuljono says the government remains committed to continuing the ...

The construction site of the new capital city is seen from a hill in Penajam Paser Utara, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Indonesia began construction of the new capital in ...

So, in 2019, Indonesia's government approved an ambitious plan to build a new capital city 100 miles away from Jakarta. Nusantara, the new capital, is not scheduled to be fully completed until 2045.

When the Dutch colonized Indonesia in 1619, they began transforming the city to make it resemble a typical Dutch town, with modern buildings and canals.The canals were meant to regulate the flow ...

More ADEK BERRY/AFP via Getty Images Sinking city Jakarta, which is about 870 miles west of Nusantara on the island of Java, has been Indonesia's capital since its independence in 1945.

Indonesia is home to more than 260 million people spread across a vast archipelago. But despite its scale, there is an unsustainable pull to the capital for citizens.

Two-fifths of the capital is now below sea level, and some neighborhoods are dropping at a rate of 20 centimeters (8 inches) a year. Climate scientists say 95% of the main city could be underwater ...

Additionally, it would shift Indonesia’s capital close to its geographic center. "This is a big job, impossible to take just one year, it could take up to 10 years," Brodjonegoro said.

Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com Indonesia is getting a less crowded, less polluted capital city, removing the “burden” on sinking Jakarta, the country’s president announced Monday.

JAKARTA — Indonesia’s new capital city will sit at the nexus of the country’s coal and oil hubs in eastern Borneo, the president revealed on Aug. 26. President Joko Widodo, who has long ...

Indonesia's president has decided to move the capital of the world's fourth most populous country away from the crowded main island of Java, but has yet to finalise a new location, the planning ...