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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Indonesian President Joko Widodo, center, talks to the media in the new capital city Nusantara in Penajam Paser Utara, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Monday, July 29, 2024.

Indonesia's President Joko Widodo broke ground on Wednesday for a Chinese firm's property complex in the Southeast Asian nation's troubled new capital on the island of Borneo, hailing it as a ...

PENAJAM PASER UTARA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia marked 79 years of independence on Saturday with a ceremony in the unfinished future capital of Nusantara, which was planned to relieve pressure ...

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 ...