{"id":65927,"date":"2024-07-30T11:47:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T02:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/30\/indonesia-president-joko-widodo-nusantara-capital"},"modified":"2024-07-30T11:47:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T02:47:43","slug":"indonesia-president-begins-working-from-new-capital-despite-construction-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65927","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia president begins working from new capital despite construction delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nusantara scheduled to host Independence Day celebrations instead of Jakarta next month but relocation plan has come into question<\/p>\n<p>Indonesian President Joko Widodo has begun working from the presidential palace in the country\u2019s ambitious new administrative capital, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/27\/why-is-indonesia-moving-its-capital-city-everything-you-need-to-know\">flagship project<\/a> of his two terms in office but which has been plagued by delays.<\/p>\n<p>The capital is due to move from traffic-clogged and sinking Jakarta to the planned city of Nusantara in East Kalimantan province on Borneo, but the $33bn project announced in 2019 is months \u2013 even years \u2013 behind schedule.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/30\/indonesia-president-joko-widodo-nusantara-capital\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nusantara scheduled to host Independence Day celebrations instead of Jakarta next month but relocation plan has come into questionIndonesian President Joko Widodo has begun working from the presidential palace in the country\u2019s ambitious new administrat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4355,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65928,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65927\/revisions\/65928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}