JAKARTA: Indonesia plans to move its capital to Borneo island from Jakarta, a crowded, polluted city on the north coast of Java island which is slowly sinking, the president said.
President Joko Widodo said yesterday that it was urgent that relocation plans commence, although the capital would not physically begin to be relocated until 2024.
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