Jan. 18 (UPI) —<\/span> Indonesian lawmakers passed a bill on Tuesday to formally relocate the capital of the country from Jakarta to a location in Kalimantan state — and name the new government center Nusantara.<\/p>\n The move on Tuesday follows a promise by President Joko Widodo three years ago to move the capital due to a number of factors in Jakarta, including a crowded population and a sinking elevation.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n Relocating the capital is intended to relieve stresses on Jakarta, a city of 10 million people, and the island of Java. The new capital is located in a jungled part east on Borneo Island.<\/p>\n Nusantara is an Indonesian word meaning “archipelago.”<\/p>\n “The relocation of the capital city to Kalimantan is based on several considerations, regional advantages and welfare,” Suharso Monoarfa, minister of development, said according to CNN.<\/p>\n “With the vision of the birth of a new economic center of gravity in the middle of the archipelago.”<\/p>\n A new legal framework passed by lawmakers supports Widodo’s ambitious $32 billion megaproject and stipulates how the development of the capital will be funded and governed.<\/p>\n The project envisions a low-carbon “super hub” that will support sustainable growth in the pharmaceutical, health and technology sectors.\n<\/p>\n Though construction will begin this year, it will likely take decades to build and stretch past Widodo’s final five-year term.<\/p>\n Some critics say the law was passed without enough consultation or environmental consideration.<\/p>\n The process of relocating the capital from Jakarta has been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jakarta, the present capital of Indonesia, suffers from several problems — including overcrowding and the city is sinking due to overextraction of groundwater. File Photo by Adi Weda\/EPA-EFE Jan. 18 (UPI) — Indonesian lawmakers passed a bill on Tuesday to formally relocate the capital of the country from Jakarta to a location in Kalimantan state […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":755534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/div>\nJakarta, the present capital of Indonesia, suffers from several problems — including overcrowding and the city is sinking due to overextraction of groundwater. File Photo by Adi Weda\/EPA-EFE<\/p>\n