Authority recently welcomed embassy representatives, businesspeople and potential investors from various countries at the ...

A new regulation calls the city a ‘political capital’, fuelling uncertainty over the future of Joko Widodo’s legacy project.

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A year after it was inaugurated, Indonesia's would-be new capital Nusantara attracts tourists and construction workers, but most of its architecturally arresting presidential palace and freshly built ...

A recent study warns that the ongoing construction of Indonesia’s new capital city on the island of Borneo could destabilize the population of endangered proboscis monkeys currently thriving in the ...

JAKARTA (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 Jakarta, the ...

What does a country do when its overcrowded, polluted capital city starts sinking into the ocean? It builds a new one. That's the plan in Indonesia, where construction is well underway on the new ...

Indonesia has set its sights on an audacious goal — building a brand-new capital city, Nusantara, from scratch in the heart of Borneo. Marketed as a $30 billion megaproject and envisioned as a ...

Indonesia’s first planned independence day celebrations at its multi-billion-dollar new capital city were a damp squib, say A. Anantha Lakshmi and Diana Mariska in the Financial Times. The government ...

Indonesia is building a new capital from scratch, with Jakarta threatened by rising sea levels. Two top officials resigned on Monday, raising questions about the $35 billion Nusantara project.

Less than a tenth of the reforestation target for Indonesia’s new capital city, Nusantara, has been achieved to date, planners say. The main obstacles that experts have identified include a preference ...

Indonesia's capital plans to double its COVID-19 testing capacity in the near future, its governor told Reuters on Thursday, as it fights surging infections that saw restrictions re-imposed to slow ...