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(Bloomberg) -- Indonesia is reviving plans to construct a giant sea wall in the latest of measures to prevent its capital city of Jakarta from sinking at a faster rate. The project will require three ...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — 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 ...
Decades of uncontrolled and excessive depletion of groundwater reserves, rising sea-levels, and increasingly volatile weather patterns mean swathes of Jakarta have already started to disappear. [AFP] ...
Nusantara, Indonesia’s new capital, faces an uncertain future with budget cuts and slow construction. Will it ever replace ...
By Basten Gokkon Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has set up a new authority to build a massive seawall along the north ...
The legacy project of former president Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is battling a slashed budget, slowed construction and a deficit ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia will resume land reclamation that will help prevent Jakarta from sinking below sea level, a cabinet minister said, five months after work was suspended due to regulatory ...
Jakarta faces one of the world’s most severe sinking crises, with some neighborhoods dropping more than ten inches in a decade. Amy Coney Barrett responds to concern Supreme Court protecting Donald ...
A year after it was inaugurated, Indonesia's would-be new capital Nusantara attracts tourists and construction workers, but ...