TOKYO -- Indonesia has set out on a hugely ambitious and enormously costly project to relocate its capital from Jakarta to tropical forests in East Kalimantan province on the Indonesian side of Borneo.
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Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo delivers his State of the Nation address ahead of Independence Day in Jakarta on Aug. 16. © Reuters
TOKYO -- Indonesia has set out on a hugely ambitious and enormously costly project to relocate its capital from Jakarta to tropical forests in East Kalimantan province on the Indonesian side of Borneo.