Inside the $45 billion megacity trying to become the new capital of Indonesia | ABC News
Four years after construction began, Indonesia’s new capital city is emerging out of the forests of Borneo. Proposals to move the capital have been around for decades, as Jakarta, the most populated city in the world, has become overpopulated, polluted and is sinking. But under President Prabowo Subianto, the budget for the new city has been cut, some liken it to a ghost town, and economists fear it risks white elephant status. Indonesia correspondent Tim Swanston, Haidarr Jones and Ake Prihanta
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