Jakarta is the world's second-largest city and the capital of Indonesia, but it is sinking into the sea. This is the race to ...

Nusantara, which means “Indonesian archipelago,” has become the alternative for Indonesia, given the problems facing its ...

Drastic funding cuts, construction delays and dwindling population cast doubt on future of megaproject, say media reports - ...

Jakarta’s giant sea wall is a last-ditch effort to prevent the city from sinking due to rising sea levels and land subsidence ...

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] ...

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Indonesia has announced plans to build a new capital city as its current capital, Jakarta, struggles with pollution, traffic gridlock — and the fact that the city is sinking. After a Cabinet meeting ...

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 ...