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Indonesia announces relocation of capital from Jakarta to Nusantara

Indonesia has announced that its new capital will be called Nusantara, meaning “archipelago” in Javanese. It came as parliament approved a bill to relocate the capital from Jakarta, which is rapidly sinking. The idea of building a new capital 1,300km away on the island of Borneo was first proposed in 2019. But critics have said […]