Yanuar Nugroho – There are substantial and valid concerns about the government's decision to move Indonesia's capital to East Kalimantan.

Dian Erika N, Achmad Nasrudin Yahya, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is furious with TNI (Indonesian military) and Polri (Indonesian police) personnel who have been discussing

Rina Chandran and Leo Galuh (Reuters), Jakarta – Maesaroh has sold chicken satay with rice from her stall on a busy Jakarta street close to government offices for about 13 years, servin

Wasisto Raharjo Jati – The Indonesian House of Representatives' new capital city bill passed in mid-January 2022.

Tamara Thiessen – The steamy, jungle-covered tropical island of Borneo was once considered one of the remotest, wildest places on earth.

Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – Jakarta Legal Bureau Head Yayan Yuhanah said the city administration has not yet decided to challenge the decree of the State Administrative Court (PTUN) re

Emma Connors, Singapore/Jakarta – One of Indonesia' richest men has acknowledged he could reap millions from the planned new capital in East Kalimantan but has denied the fix is in.

Jakarta – With the Indonesian government preparing to shift the nation's capital to East Kalimantan, Jakarta will soon shed its capital city status.

Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – Nusantara, the government's new capital city project, is facing more public scrutiny even after lawmakers passed a law formalizing the staggered move away from co

Arrijal Rachman, Graven Fikri (Intern), Jakarta – The development of the new capital city or IKN is continuously protested.

Jakarta – Property companies association Real Estate Indonesia, or REI, recently announced that its global tour to attract investors to fund Indonesia's new capital city in East Kaliman

Fathiya Dahrul – The brother of Indonesia's Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto seeks to supply clean water to the country's new capital.

Fitria Chusna Farisa, Jakarta – The government plans to start the construction of the new capital city (IKN) mega-project "Nusantara" in North Penajam Paser, East Kalimantan, in mid-202

Jakarta – The East Kalimantan Mining Advocacy Network (Jatam) has revealed that two subsidiary companies belonging to the PT Toba Group owned by Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affai

Jakarta – A number of national figures have criticised the project to move the state capital (IKN) to East Kalimantan as envisaged by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo Among the figures wh

Ahmad Pathoni, Jakarta – Officials say Indonesia's new national capital, to be built on Borneo island far from often-flooded and traffic-choked Jakarta, will lead to greater equality.

Hellena Souisa and Natasya Salim – The Indonesian Lower House has passed a draft law on relocating the national capital, marking the official declaration of the country's new main city

Dana Bartholomew – Indonesia's three-year-old plan to move its capital, Jakarta, to the island of Borneo, is drawing criticism for everything from its environmental impact to its very n

Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta – A number of state officials visited the project site for the new capital city in East Kalimantan.

Edna Tarigan, Niniek Karmini – Jakarta is congested, polluted, prone to earthquakes and rapidly sinking into the Java Sea.

Sapri Maulana, Samarinda – The East Kalimantan Government asked the public not to be easily provoked when talking of the new capital city in eastern Kalimantan.

Agencies, Jakarta – Tens of thousands of indigenous people are at risk of being expelled from their lands to make way for the construction of a new capital on jungle-clad East Kalimanta

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[Editors' note: This piece was originally published in November 2019; we are republishing it in light of the Indonesian parliament's passing of key legislation for the creation of the n

Aisyah Llewellyn, Medan, Indonesia – When Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo announced a surprise plan to move the country's capital during his annual address to the nation on 16

Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta -The Jakarta Regional Legislative Council (DPRD Jakarta) Commission A speaker Mujiyono on Wednesday assessed that the capital city move from Jakarta to East K

Vitorio Mantalean, Jakarta – The Civil Society Coalition has criticised the new capital city (IKN) project for being a megaproject of the oligarchy which threatens the safety of the ord

Vitorio Mantalean, Jakarta – The Nusantara Traditional Community Alliance (AMAN) estimates that around 20,000 people from traditional communities will be sacrificed by the project to mo

Agencies, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has approved a bill to relocate the nation's capital from Jakarta to a jungled area of East Kalimantan, the head of National Planning Ag

Rebecca Ratcliffe – Indonesia plans to name its new capital Nusantara, which translates as "archipelago", when government offices are relocated to the province of East Kalimantan from J

Bisnis.Com, Jakarta – National Development Planning Minister or Bappenas Head Suharso Monoarfa said President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Friday last week, Jan.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has outlined at least three environmental problems found from the results of a Strategic Environmental Study (KLHS) on Indones

Whisnu Bagus Prasetyo, Jakarta – Sculptor Nyoman Nuarta's majestic design for the state palace in Indonesia's future capital city in East Kalimantan has gotten President Joko "Jokowi" W

M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has officially established partnership with two State Ministers to establish the city's drinking water supply system (SPAM

Jakarta – The recent controversy surrounding the Jakarta administration's construction of catchment tanks across the city, except North Jakarta, only shows the complexity of flood preve

Caesar Akbar, Jakarta – The House of Representatives (DPR) member from the PKS faction, Suryadi Jaya Purnama, said the draft bill on the new capital city (RUU IKN) has entered the discu

M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – The Jakarta Legislative Council (DPRD) chairman of Commission D Ida Maheasy said the capital city currently only has 9.2 percent of green open space or RT

Edvin Aldrian – As Indonesia's capital and most populous megacity, Jakarta needs rapid solutions to tackle the problems of land subsidence and sea-level rise.

Yanuar Nugroho – Legislation to approve moving the Indonesian capital to East Kalimantan is expected soon.

Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – The Jakarta Legal Aid (LBH Jakarta) on Monday issued a report on the performance of Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan throughout his 4-year tenure dubbed the

Jakartans can breathe a sigh of relief now that the city is set to return to the original odd-even traffic rule starting on Monday, which means we'll soon be back to the traffic policy

M Yusuf Manurung, The Economist, Jakarta – The latest report issued by The Economist Intelligence Unit touted The Safe Cities Index 2021 has ranked the capital city of Jakarta at 46th w

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan recently responded to the issue of the capital sinking, by ensuring that the government has taken steps to tackle the probl

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo announced on Wednesday that he had ordered the infrastructure projects for the new capital city in East Kalimatan to proceed, and that he expect

Erwida Maulia and Ismi Damayanti, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Tuesday said the government will proceed with its $32 billion plan to relocate Indonesia's capital city fro

To the surprise of absolutely nobody, Jakarta was named among cities with bad urban planning by an architecture publication, prompting an expected, if somewhat defensive, response from

Jakarta – The government has appointed the country's property companies association Real Estate Indonesia, or REI, to participate in developing Indonesia's new capital city in East Kali

Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – The design of the new state palace in Indonesia's future capital city in Kalimantan is still under discussion, said the minister of national development planning

Some might say it's majestic while others are aghast at the tackiness on display, but it seems the pros have no love at all for the proposed design of Indonesia's state palace in the co

Gayatri Suroyo, Jakarta – Indonesia aims to kickstart President Joko Widodo's ambitious plan to relocate the capital city to the island of Borneo by offering property contracts to inves