{"id":74942,"date":"2025-10-29T09:35:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/29\/nusantara-indonesias-planned-new-political-capital-explained-in-30-seconds"},"modified":"2025-10-29T09:35:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:35:23","slug":"nusantara-indonesias-planned-new-political-capital-explained-in-30-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74942","title":{"rendered":"Nusantara, Indonesia\u2019s planned new political capital \u2013 explained in 30 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new city remains under construction, one year on from its scheduled 2024 inauguration, and has been downgraded from its planned status as a replacement for Jakarta<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia is moving its capital from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2016\/nov\/22\/jakarta-great-garuda-seawall-sinking\">rapidly sinking Jakarta<\/a> to Nusantara \u2013 a new city under construction in the jungles of Borneo.<\/p>\n<p>But the ambitious $32bn project has been stunted by logistical and financial challenges since it was announced by then-president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/joko-widodo\">Joko Widodo<\/a> in 2019, with inauguration originally slated for 2024.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/29\/nusantara-indonesias-planned-new-political-capital-explained-in-30-seconds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new city remains under construction, one year on from its scheduled 2024 inauguration, and has been downgraded from its planned status as a replacement for JakartaIndonesia is moving its capital from rapidly sinking Jakarta to Nusantara \u2013 a new cit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4898,"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-74942","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\/74942","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\/4898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74943,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74942\/revisions\/74943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}