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Indonesia passes law to relocate capital to remote Borneo
CNBC ^

Posted on 01/19/2022 8:00:36 AM PST by BenLurkin

Indonesia’s parliament has approved a bill to relocate the nation’s capital from Jakarta to a jungled area of Kalimantan on Borneo island, the planning minister said on Tuesday.

The new state capital law, which provides a legal framework for President Joko Widodo’s ambitious $32 billion mega project, stipulates how development of the capital will be funded and governed.

The new center will be called “Nusantara”, a Javanese name for the Indonesian archipelago chosen by the president, Monoarfa announced on Monday.

Plans to relocate the government from Jakarta, a bustling megacity of 10 million people that suffers from chronic congestion, floods and air pollution, have been floated by multiple presidents, but none have made it this far.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: borneo; indonesia; jakarta; javanese; jokowidodo; kalimantan; nusantara; suharsomonoarfa
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To: Sequoyah101
"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."

That is very cool. Great movie. I always thought that Suharto '98 was also the inspiration for Nolan's outside scene in Inception showing 'revolution' in the streets, the first time they tried to set up Saito.

41 posted on 01/19/2022 11:44:18 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least 1 of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, J&J, Merck and GSK)
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To: AlaskaErik
"We need to relocate our capital to a more centrally located part of the country."

I'd bet the farm it has been repeatedly war-gamed in the event of either a rogue nuke/very limited exchange with the CCP.

The metros that could even remotely hope to sustain the influx of both the Swamptard bourgeois elites and the unfortunate, scorched refugees would be DFW, I think far and away No. 1, possibly Indy as the surprise No. 2.

The more obvious No. 2 choice behind DFW -- Atlanta -- to me, lacks the 2 million acres of flat, undeveloped, exurban land needed for a supremely-rapid Levittown buildup for America 2.0, which would also eliminate the Carolinas.

Chiraq is a non-starter.

42 posted on 01/19/2022 11:58:21 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least 1 of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, J&J, Merck and GSK)
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To: BenLurkin
Okay - "President Joko Widodo" is really the person's name?

No - I will NOT laugh. That would be rude, insensitive, wrong. (snicker)

43 posted on 01/19/2022 12:40:06 PM PST by GaltAdonis (As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide. Abe Lincoln)
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To: BenLurkin

I guess they were impressed with how Brasilia worked out.


44 posted on 01/19/2022 1:17:49 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
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To: GaltAdonis

Lolo Soetoro.

Barry’s Muslim step-dad


45 posted on 01/19/2022 1:20:27 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Pres Joko is feelin’ it.


46 posted on 01/19/2022 2:02:35 PM PST by sauropod (Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. Life is risk, your highness.)
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To: SeekAndFind

When this country was founded, the District of Columbia was almost directly in the center. When the Civil War began, it was on the Front Line.


47 posted on 01/19/2022 4:01:26 PM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: kabar
I was there in the late 1980's. I suspect it had changed quite a lot in fifteen or so years. Look at what's happened in some US cities in that time.

But living in a place is completely different than being a business visitor. The types of customs games and overt bribing demanded to do business in Indonesia were off putting. And the city itself seemed like an urban "Heart of Darkness". It wasn't the people. I'd never felt the same sense of "evil" in Malaysia, with similar people. That said, it might be down to a Dutch versus a British colonial foundation.

48 posted on 01/21/2022 7:48:33 AM PST by katana
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To: BenLurkin

49 posted on 01/21/2022 7:50:39 AM PST by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: Reily

Nigeria is well known for making sure that the government city of Abaju has all the electricity it needs while the rest of the country has intermittent power.

It is a classic elite power play—telling the peons to pound sand.


50 posted on 01/21/2022 7:51:56 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: katana

When I was in Indonesia the bribing to get even the smallest things done was endless.

My trips there were not an enjoyable experience.

I never felt that way about Malaysia. There was bribing to get thongs done there but not as multilayered. To me it was nothing more then a Southeast Asian version of the latin American “mañana”!


51 posted on 01/21/2022 8:01:02 AM PST by Reily
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To: cgbg
Yes... And thinks to AGW believers ! Coming to a place near you !
52 posted on 01/21/2022 8:02:22 AM PST by Reily
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