The Indonesian capital of Jakarta is home to 10 million people but it is also one of the fastest-sinking cities in the world.

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.

The Jakarta branch of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) said that the government’s plan to stop issuing new groundwater extraction permits to businessmen in the Greater Jakarta ...

and the city has no way to meet demand without it due to a lack of water-retention facilities or a comprehensive piping network, Andreas said. Jakarta is not the only sinking urban centre.

Here’s what to know about Indonesia’s new capital city. Jakarta, on the island of Java ... area home to some 30 million ...

Indonesia is in a race against sea-level rise, which threatens to submerge swaths of its capital city, Jakarta, by 2050. For more than a decade, a steady stream of floods has devastated homes ...

Indonesia plans to move its capital city away from congested and sinking Jakarta, to Nusantara, a $32-billion city under construction in the jungles of East Kalimantan on Borneo. The city is a ...

Indonesia is considering building a huge seawall to prevent its largest city Jakarta from sinking into the ocean. The country is the world’s largest archipelago consisting of over 17,000 islands ...

Other coastal areas in Indonesia ... Risk Report in 2022, Jakarta has earned the unfortunate distinction of being the "Most Vulnerable City" among 576 major cities globally. This label is a result of ...

Iranian media revealed that debates over relocating the capital have resurfaced periodically since the Islamic Revolution in ...

Why Indonesia's capital Jakarta is sinking The situation is ... will help rescue the sinking city - at a cost of about $40bn. It's being supported by the Dutch and South Korean governments and ...