{"id":7828,"date":"2019-08-26T20:52:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T11:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/26\/indonesia-new-capital-city-borneo-forests-jakarta"},"modified":"2019-08-26T20:52:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T11:52:12","slug":"indonesia-names-site-of-capital-city-to-replace-sinking-jakarta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7828","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia names site of capital city to replace sinking Jakarta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Choice of Borneo for \u00a327bn project raises fears of forest destruction and pollution<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia has announced plans to move its capital from the climate-threatened megalopolis of Jakarta to the sparsely populated island of Borneo, which is home to some of the world\u2019s greatest tropical rainforests.<\/p>\n<p>President Joko Widodo said the move was necessary because the burden on Jakarta was \u201ctoo heavy\u201d, but environmentalists said the $33bn relocation needed to be carefully handled or it would result in fleeing one ecological disaster only to create another.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/26\/indonesia-new-capital-city-borneo-forests-jakarta\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choice of Borneo for \u00a327bn project raises fears of forest destruction and pollutionIndonesia has announced plans to move its capital from the climate-threatened megalopolis of Jakarta to the sparsely populated island of Borneo, which is home to some of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"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":[41,65,156,434,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-indonesia","category-joko-widodo","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828","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\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7855,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828\/revisions\/7855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}