President Joko Widodo has decided to move the capital, but has yet to finalize a new location
Indonesia’s president has decided to move the capital of the world’s fourth most populous country away from the crowded main island of Java, but has yet to finalize a new location, the planning minister said on Monday.
“The president chose to relocate the capital city to outside of Java, an important decision,” Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro told a news conference after a cabinet meeting.Brodjonegoro said the administration had yet to pick a new location, but was looking at the eastern side of the sprawling archipelago.“We want to think in a visionary way for the progress of this country and moving the capital requires thorough and detailed preparation,” he said.
Brodjonegoro put the annual economic loss due to traffic congestion in Jakarta at 100 trillion rupiah . In making his decision, Widodo had also taken into account the fact that nearly 60 per cent of Indonesia’s 260 million people live in Java and economic activities were concentrated there, Brodjonegoro said.During the recent election campaign, Widodo promised to spread economic development more evenly outside Java.
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