An undeveloped tract of jungle on an island known more for orangutans than lawmaking may seem an unlikely place to construct ...

Indonesia has announced that its new capital will be called Nusantara, meaning "archipelago" in Javanese. It came as parliament approved a bill to relocate the capital from Jakarta, which is ...

With a population of about 275 million, Indonesia is Southeast Asia’s largest economy. Most of the new capital's investors are Indonesian companies. The government is contributing 20% of the $33 ...

JAKARTA--Jakarta is congested, polluted, prone to earthquakes and rapidly sinking into the Java Sea. Now the government is leaving, and moving the country’s capital to the island of Borneo.

Construction of Indonesia’s vast new capital city on the east coast of Borneo has prompted a surge in port traffic in Balikpapan Bay, elevating existing pressures on the belt of mangroves lining ...