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.

Jakarta: The construction of Nusantara, Indonesia’s planned new capital city in East Kalimantan, has drawn flak from analysts who fear the megaproject is veering toward elite private ...

As thousands of holiday tourists poured into the site of Indonesia’s under-construction new capital during the Eid al-Fitr break, they were greeted not only by gleaming new government buildings ...

JAKARTA--Jakarta is congested, polluted, prone to earthquakes and rapidly sinking into the Java Sea. Now the government is leaving, and moving the country’s capital to the island of Borneo.