Indonesia's incoming president Prabowo Subianto is planning to build a giant sea wall along the northern coast of Java, funded in part by Chinese investment, but critics say the ambitious ...

Java’s creation myth echoes this theme of giantism, which tells of a giant turtle and a dragon that worked together to stabilize the island by planting the peak of Mount Meru upon its drifting form.

(Bloomberg) -- Indonesia is reviving plans to construct a giant sea wall in the latest of measures to prevent its capital city of Jakarta from sinking at a faster rate.Most Read from ...

"If this Giant Sea Wall is not done, that will create a big impact on Jakarta with regards to salt water penetration," Coordinating Maritime Minister Luhut Pandjaitan told reporters on Tuesday.

Home to more than 10 million people on the island of Java, Jakarta has seen some areas descend by as much as 4 meters between 1997 to 2005, with experts predicting that one third of the capital ...