First proposed in 2019, Widodo’s plan to establish the city of Nusantara--an old Javanese term meaning ... In constructing a purpose-built capital, Indonesia will be taking a path that ...

Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo and Cabinet ... The air and groundwater in the old capital, on the northwestern coast of the Java island, are heavily polluted, and it has been described ...

Thousands of people were evacuated in Indonesia's capital Jakarta on Tuesday after floods swamped the region, officials said, with heavy rain expected to continue until next week.