Indonesia is building a brand-new capital in the Borneo jungle to replace sinking Jakarta
- Deep in the rainforest of Indonesia's Borneo island, construction crews are building an entirely new capital city called Nusantara, a project driven by a problem the current capital simply cannot outrun, the ground beneath Jakarta is sinking.
- Jakarta, now the world's most populous city with more than forty million people in its wider metropolitan area, has spent decades battling chronic flooding, worsening traffic and rapidly subsiding land.
- Rather than trying to fix Jakarta in place, Indonesia's government has instead chosen to start over, relocating the seat of government roughly a thousand
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- Deep in the rainforest of Indonesia's Borneo island, construction crews are building an entirely new capital city called Nusantara, a project driven by a problem the current capital simply cannot outrun, the ground beneath Jakarta is sinking.
- Jakarta, now the world's most populous city with more than forty million people in its wider metropolitan area, has spent decades battling chronic flooding, worsening traffic and rapidly subsiding land.
- Rather than trying to fix Jakarta in place, Indonesia's government has instead chosen to start over, relocating the seat of government roughly a thousand
Sources: Times of India