East Kalimantan, Indonesia – Indonesia is moving forward with its plans to build a new capital city — called Nusantara — in East Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo.
The project is expected to cost approximately $34bn, and authorities hope it will be complete by 2045.
Nusantara is intended to relieve some of the environmental pressures facing the current capital Jakarta, which, apart from being polluted and congested, is the world’s fastest-sinking city.
Authorities have pitched the…