Peter’s first assignment was as a field engineer on the Brigham and Women's Hospital project in Boston. The new capital is a symbol of the identity of the nation, as well as a new centre of economic gravity.Ĭritics argue the construction of the new city in East Kalimantan will lead to the expansion of palm-oil plantations.Peter joined Turner in 1978 after graduating from Pratt Institute. Home to only 3.7 million people, mineral-rich East Kalimantan is known for its jungles and orangutan population. Government hopes it can relieve Jakarta of its problems, including chronic congestion, floods and air pollution. Jakarta has been sinking and experts have said that many parts of the city would submerge by 2050. Home to more than 10 million people, present capital Jakarta sits on swampy land on the large island of Java.Ĭapital city of Jakarta city has been reportedly experiencing financial inequality.Īir pollution is a serious issue in the city, which has a population of almost 11 million people.ĭue to traffic jams in Jakarta, police convoys are required to escort government ministers. It has become crowded, polluted and is sinking at an alarming rate due to the over-extraction of groundwater. The environmental issues in Jakarta, the world's most populous island, have been increasing. This change of capital is in an effort to relieve the huge environmental challenges facing Jakarta, and to redistribute wealth.īut critics say the new name could be confusing and that the move itself fails to take environmental factors into consideration. The idea of building a new capital 1,300km (800 miles) away on the island of Borneo was first proposed in 2019 by President Joko Widodo but got delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Parliament has already approved a bill to relocate the capital from Jakarta to a site on the island of Borneo that will be named 'Nusantara'. Indonesia is relocating its capital from Jakarta, on the island of Java to Nusantara, meaning 'archipelago' in Javanese, located in the province of East Kalimantan by 2024.
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