Now the government is leaving, and moving the country’s capital to the island of Borneo. President Joko Widodo envisions the construction of a new capital as a panacea for the problems plaguing ...

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 ...

The Heart of Borneo’s natural capital has significant social and economic value at local, national and global levels. This includes social values related to traditional knowledge and sacred sites, the ...

The Indonesian Parliament has passed a bill to relocate the capital from Jakarta to a jungled area on Borneo island namely Nusantara. The new state capital law, which provides a legal framework for ...

JAKARTA--Indonesia’s parliament on Thursday designated special status for Jakarta, keeping the metropolis as the country’s economic epicenter, amid plans to move the capital city to Borneo island.