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: President Joko Widodo has made a trip to East Kalimantan and reassured the public that Indonesia’s planned new capital there is on track, just a day after the bombshell announcement ...

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.

Monocle is in Jakarta this week for The Chiefs, our annual business-and-leadership conference. Our editors, correspondents, photographers and radio ...

Under current rules, Jakarta will remain Indonesia’s capital until the president issues a decree officially naming Nusantara as the new capital, which is expected sometime this year. The ...