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Indonesia names new capital, approving shift from Jakarta
Source: CNN
(CNN) Indonesia has named its new capital Nusantara, as lawmakers approve the shift from Jakarta to Kalimantan -- a jungle-covered area on the east of Borneo island.
The new name translates to "archipelago" in the Indonesian language.
Concerns over the sustainability of the congested and rapidly sinking political center of Jakarta prompted the need for a new capital, and the nation's House of Representatives officially passed a bill on Tuesday regarding the relocation.
"The relocation of the capital city to Kalimantan is based on several considerations, regional advantages, and welfare. With the vision of the birth of a new economic center of gravity in the middle of the archipelago," said Suharso Monoarfa, the country's Minister of National Development Planning, according to Indonesia Parliament TV.
The new name translates to "archipelago" in the Indonesian language.
Concerns over the sustainability of the congested and rapidly sinking political center of Jakarta prompted the need for a new capital, and the nation's House of Representatives officially passed a bill on Tuesday regarding the relocation.
"The relocation of the capital city to Kalimantan is based on several considerations, regional advantages, and welfare. With the vision of the birth of a new economic center of gravity in the middle of the archipelago," said Suharso Monoarfa, the country's Minister of National Development Planning, according to Indonesia Parliament TV.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/indonesia-nusantara-new-capital-intl-scli/index.html
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Indonesia names new capital, approving shift from Jakarta (Original Post)
brooklynite
Jan 2022
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Wow. I'd read about Jakarta sinking a couple of years ago. Good Luck Kalimantan!
electric_blue68
Jan 2022
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electric_blue68
(14,869 posts)1. Wow. I'd read about Jakarta sinking a couple of years ago. Good Luck Kalimantan!
msongs
(67,394 posts)2. looks suspiciously like a massive financial upheaval to do this nt
Igel
(35,300 posts)3. Don't count out ethnicity.
Borneo is in the borders, but as far as ethnicity is concerned ... Not so Indonesian. Putting the capital there places a large power-center in less assimilated territory.
JI7
(89,247 posts)4. I never realized how huge Indonesia
until I saw comparisons with other nations by laying the image over the US and other places