Brazil's Brasilia made sense, of a sort - Rio doesn't need to be the capitol to be Rio.
Jakarta will go the way of Calcutta.
Jakarta is Calcutta, just smaller.
I watched the events leading to the May 1998 overthrow of Suharto from my hotel window. Like reliving the “Year of Living Dangerously”. I thought it was cool at the time.
In the early morning hours military trucks would wind their way into the city with loads of rice. They would park in out of the way places and people would come to get their rations. Some would drive up in a Mercedes and they would load a whole bag of rice in the trunk. Most people just got an allocation.