![]() Relocating a capital city is a daunting task although plans appear to be advanced, according to the official ibu kota negara (the nation’s capital) website. Indonesian national police rescue residents from flooding that inundated Jakarta in February 2021 So, the Indonesian government is bidding farewell to Jakarta and plans to relocate to a new capital: Nusantara - a purpose-built city more than 1,000km (620 miles) away in Borneo island’s East Kalimantan province.Īs world leaders gather for the COP27 summit in Egypt and thrash out ways and timeframes to avert what UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told them was the “collective suicide” of climate change, Jakarta’s fate vividly demonstrates how people in the developing world are already suffering from, and adapting to, a climatically-changed reality. Increasingly severe rainfall and flooding, rising sea levels, and land subsidence have conspired to make the Southeast Asian megacity a challenging place for its more than 10.5 million people to live.Ī quarter of the city - located on the western tip of the densely populated island of Java - could be underwater by 2050. ![]() ![]() ![]() Notorious for traffic gridlock and poor air quality, Indonesia’s sprawling capital faces such a perfect storm of climate and environmental challenges that the government has decided to move it somewhere safer. ![]()
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