Indonesia builds a new capital city to replace Jakarta - and the ambitious plan ... trends now
Incredible photographs have captured Indonesia's new capital city beginning to take shape.
Roads and buildings for Nusantara, which is intended to replace the slowly sinking city of Jakarta, have begun to sprout on the eastern coast of Borneo.
Nusantara won't be finished until 2045, but 6,000 government workers will relocate to the new capital by the time of the next president's inauguration in October.
The project will cost $35billion in total and house around 1.9million residents once it has been fully completed.
Incredible photographs have captured Indonesia 's new purpose-built capital beginning to take shape
The 256,142ha new government city, which around 500,000 people will call home, has been estimated to cost $35 billion and has around 200,000 workers constructing it on a site around 2,000km from Jakarta
Some 200,000 workers are currently constructing the new city that stretches a staggering 256,142ha and is located around 2,000km from Jakarta.
Relocating the capital was first broached by president Joko Widodo in April 2019, who cited rising sea levels and severe congestion as the main reasons for the move.
Around 10.6million residents live in the city while 30 million reside in the metropolitan areas.
Global warming has caused sea levels to rise leaving around 40 per cent of the region below sea level.
Experts predicting up to a third of the city could be underwater by 2050.
Mr Widodo said the new capital will be one 'where the people are close from any destination, where they can bike and walk everywhere because there
