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.

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 ...

Following the capital relocation plan, a new regulation to spur growth and development for the new capital has been issued under Government Regulation No. 12 of 2023 regarding Business Licensing ...

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 ...

JAKARTA — The construction of Indonesia’s new capital city on the island of Borneo may destabilize the current stable population of endangered proboscis monkeys, a study has warned. President ...

Indonesia has grand plans for Jakarta—a new capital on Borneo, a giant bird-shaped sea wall to protect Jakarta itself—but they don’t solve the underlying problem.

That's the plan in Indonesia, where construction is well underway on the new capital of Nusantara, a massive planned city being built from scratch in the jungles of Borneo that's meant to replace ...

BALIKPAPAN, East Kalimantan — Planners building Indonesia’s new capital city in eastern Borneo say they’re far from their target of reforesting the site that the country’s president has ...

Indonesia has announced a range of new incentives for international firms to invest in its new capital, in a bid to speed up the sluggish progress of the city’s construction.

Sex work, cockfighting and illegal gambing are rife in Indonesia’s planned capital city, officials say, raising doubts about ...

Bandarlampung city, capital of Indonesia's Lampung Province, has been awarded a world record certificate for creating the ...

Indonesia began construction of the new capital in mid 2022, after President Joko Widodo announced that Jakarta — the congested, polluted current capital that is prone to earthquakes and rapidly ...