Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo has announced that the country’s capital will move from “overcrowded, sinking and polluted” Jakarta to a site in sparsely populated East Kalimantan province on Borneo island, which is known for rainforests and orangutans.
He informed the people of his country that intense studies over the past three years had resulted in the choice of the location on the eastern side of Borneo island.
In this picture taken on July 12, 2019 a man walks on a muddy road between abandoned warehouses and a giant sea wall in northern Jakarta. AFP Photo