An undeveloped tract of jungle on an island known more for orangutans than lawmaking may seem an unlikely place to construct a new capital city. However, for Indonesia, the primitive landscape of ...

This week, Indonesia is slated to inaugurate a brand new city. Nusantara is set to become the capital of the world’s fourth most populous country. And the city’s construction comes with a ...

PENAJAM PASER UTARA, Indonesia — Indonesia marked 79 years of independence on Saturday with a ceremony in the unfinished future capital of Nusantara, which was planned to relieve pressure on ...

More than 1,000 kilometers northeast of Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, construction crews are carving a new administrative headquarters for the country out of the Borneo rainforest. Nusantara ...

Indonesia’s Independence Day on Aug. 17 was supposed to mark the inauguration of the new high-tech and green capital. But when the day arrived, only a scaled-back celebration was held at the ...

Indonesia is building a new capital city from scratch to deal with rising sea levels. The new city, Nusantara, was set to be operational in October. But things are not going according to plan.

Every night for three decades, Marwati would worry about snakes crawling out of the walls of her house near the east coast of ...

JAKARTA - Indonesia is set to inaugurate its unfinished future capital city in the middle of a remote jungle on the island of Borneo, as funding struggles, missed deadlines and a change in the ...

PENAJAM PASER UTARA, Indonesia -- Indonesia marked 79 years of independence Saturday with a ceremony in the unfinished future capital of Nusantara, which was planned to relieve pressure on Jakarta ...

NUSANTARA/BALIKPAPAN, Indonesia -- The government of Indonesia's plan to move the capital from Jakarta to Nusantara reached a milestone Saturday, as President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo for the first ...

Welcome to Indonesia’s new capital, Nusantara, which is supposed to be inaugurated on August 17, the country’s independence day. President Joko Widodo, known as Jokowi, announced plans for it ...