Indonesia's new capital isn't ready yet. ... (1,000 square miles) carved out of Borneo's jungle. Officials say it will be a futuristic green city with abundant forests and parks, ...

By Niken D. Sitoningrum RANGAN, Indonesia — Every night for three decades, Marwati would worry about snakes crawling out of the walls of her house near the east coast of Borneo. Today, a small ...

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.

More than 1,000 kilometers northeast of Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, construction crews are carving a new administrative headquarters for the country out of the Borneo rainforest.

Indonesia’s President-elect Prabowo Subianto said he is committed to “continue, and if possible finish” the new capital, dispelling uncertainty as to whether the incoming leader will abandon ...

Indonesia is set to inaugurate its unfinished future capital city in the middle of a remote jungle on the island of Borneo, as funding struggles, missed deadlines and a change in the country’s ...

Visitors watch celebrations of Indonesia's 79th Independence Day from office buildings under construction near the Presidential Palace, in the planned new capital of Nusantara on Aug. 17, 2024.

Located on the island of Borneo — known in Indonesian as Kalimantan — Nusantara aims to be completely carbon-neutral by 2045. Indonesian officials have touted the project as futuristic and ...

The grandest was officially opened on August 17th, when Nusantara, an entirely new capital city carved out of the jungles of Borneo, hosted festivities to mark Indonesia’s 79th independence day.

JAKARTA -Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo broke ground on Sept 25 for a Chinese firm’s property complex in the South-east Asian nation’s troubled new capital on the island of Borneo ...

Asia Indonesia’s new capital isn’t ready yet. The president is celebrating Independence Day there anyway Congestion in Jakarta costs the economy around $4.5 billion annually ...

Indonesia marked 79 years of independence on Saturday with a ceremony in the unfinished future capital of Nusantara, which was planned to relieve pressure on Jakarta but whose construction has ...