Indonesia has made a historic decision to move its national capital from Jakarta to Nusantara, located in East Kalimantan on ...

Jakarta is sinking by an average of 1-15cm a year and almost half the city now sits below sea level. The impact is immediately apparent in North Jakarta.

Time is running out for Jakarta, the sinking capital of Indonesia, amid calls for a new capital city The 16th century metropolis is one of the world's fastest sinking cities.

Rising sea levels are threatening to swamp Jakarta, Indonesia's biggest city, so authorities are building a new capital called Nusantara.

Why is Jakarta sinking? The biggest problem is water. Unlike Australia, Indonesia does not have a series of dams and pipes to deliver water to all the 10 million-plus residents of its biggest city.

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.

Indonesia has grand plans for Jakarta—a new capital on Borneo, a giant bird-shaped sea wall to protect Jakarta itself—but they don’t solve the underlying problem.

DESPERATE plans are in place to move an entire sinking city 1,200 miles away to a huge island full of chilling jungle tribes. Over 1.9million residents in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, c… ...

Well, that's exactly what is happening in Jakarta, the massive capital of Indonesia whose metropolitan population numbers more than 30 million people. The powers that be have known for years that ...

Jakarta is sinking by an average of 1-15cm a year and almost half the city now sits below sea level. The impact is immediately apparent in North Jakarta.

Jakarta is sinking by an average of 1-15cm a year and almost half the city now sits below sea level. The impact is immediately apparent in North Jakarta.

Jakarta is sinking by an average of 1-15cm a year and almost half the city now sits below sea level. The impact is immediately apparent in North Jakarta.