Towards a better future: Jokowi dressed in traditional garb announcing the move to shift the capital during his state-of-the-nation address to Parliament in Jakarta. — AFP
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s president has proposed to move the capital from Jakarta, a crowded, polluted city of 10 million people, to the island of Borneo, though he left Indonesians guessing as to the exact location.
President Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, suggested a new capital in Kalimantan, on the Indonesian side of the island shared with Malaysia and Brunei, in a speech to parliament, a day before the country’s independence day holiday.
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