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Indonesian Capital Shifted
September 2 , 2019
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- Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo has announced that his country’s national capital will move from Jakarta (on the island of Java) to the province of East Kalimantan (on the island of Borneo).
- Reasons cited: 10 million population, air pollution, traffic congestion, poor city planning which has left 40% of the city below sea level.
- Kalimantan is also much more central in Indonesia’s archipelago of 17,000 islands.
- Borneo is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia.
- The island is politically divided among three countries: Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia.
- Kalimantan is in the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo. It comprises 73% of the island's area.
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