Why Indonesia is Moving its Capital City: Nusantra

Описание: Indonesia passes law to relocate capital to Borneo from Jakarta.

This is Indonesia's New Capital City (Ibu Kota Negara); Nusantra

Indonesia will continue its plan to build a new capital city despite the economic pressure due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, as communicated by President Joko Widodo. The sheer scale of such development is hard to imagine. The Indonesian government plans to transform 256,000 hectares of inland forest—almost three times the size of New York City—into the country’s new administrative headquarters.

According to current plans, the project will cost 466 trillion Indonesian rupees or (US$32.7 billion). Only about 19 percent of which, is to come from the state budget. With a price tag of over $32.7 billion and a total of 1.5 million civil servants estimated to make the move from the current capital Jakarta to the tentatively named Ibu Kota Negara. Literally translated as New Capital City, the project is an ultimate exercise in transformative planning and design.

The mammoth task is matched by monumental ambitions. Constructing the new capital is the government’s political and technocratic response to social and environmental issues in both the current capital and the countryside.

The new capital is an opportunity to address issues that plagued both Jakarta and East Kalimantan for decades. Building the new capital is an exercise in structural imagination, political will, and effective implementation. Amidst the legacies of inequitable development, and transformative potential of the project, lies the central question of who the new Capital City is for. And who, gets left behind. The decision relies mainly on Government priorities, between Relocating its Administrative Capital to save Jakarta from ecological and environmental issue. And addressing basic necessity of residents under poverty line.