It came as parliament approved a bill to relocate the capital from Jakarta, which is rapidly sinking. The idea of building a new capital 1,300km (800 miles) away on the island of Borneo was first ...

The Indonesian capital of Jakarta is home to 10 million people but it is also one of the fastest-sinking cities in the world. If this goes unchecked, parts of the megacity could be entirely ...

The new capital, which lies more than 1,200km away from Jakarta, has so far struggled to put a reliable supply of drinking water and electricity in place. An airport, which was meant to be ready ...

JAKARTA--Indonesia’s parliament on Thursday designated special status for Jakarta, keeping the metropolis as the country’s economic epicenter, amid plans to move the capital city to Borneo island.

The celebration was initially planned to inaugurate Nusantara as the country's new capital, but with construction behind schedule it's not clear when the transfer will take place. Widodo said ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police and military started deploying at least 100,000 personnel across the capital Jakarta on ... riot units and will stay in place until Wednesday, said military ...