Indonesian President in damage control over new capital
Jakarta, Indonesia Reuters Indonesia’s President is rushing to reassure investors and bureaucrats about his $US32 billion new capital city in a malaria-prone pocket of Borneo, after the resignations of two officials overseeing the plan raised fresh doubts about its future. President Joko Widodo’s announcement that he will start working next month from an office in […]
“Useless for us”: New Indonesian capital excludes Indigenous, poor
RINA CHANDRAN and LEO GALUH, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that the new capital city will uproot thousands of indigenous people, and offers little incentive for poorer residents in Jakarta to move…