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Jakarta Is Crowded And Sinking, So Indonesia Is Moving Its Capital To Borneo
Indonesian President Joko Widodo says his country will create a new capital city on the island of Borneo, revealing new details about his plan to move the central government out of Jakarta. The capital's current location faces a number of problems, including the fact that it's sinking.
Widodo's announcement Monday comes months after he said he wanted to move the capital, seeking a place that can offer a break from Jakarta's environmental challenges as well as its relentlessly gridlocked traffic.
While rising seawater levels from climate change are a widespread concern for island and coastal areas worldwide, experts say Jakarta has played a central role in its own predicament. "Jakarta's problems are largely man-made," NPR's Merrit Kennedy reported earlier this year. "The area's large population has extracted so much groundwater that it has impacted the ground levels, and many surface water resources are polluted."
Jakarta has a population of around 10 million, with 20 million more in the greater metropolitan area.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday August 27 2019, @10:14AM (1 child)
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(Score: 2) by PocketSizeSUn on Wednesday August 28 2019, @04:45PM
Pork is Haram Only to the Muslims in Indonesia. It's is pretty easily available anywhere in the greater Jakarta region as well as Bali (where Pork is raised by the Hindu majority) and the Island of Flores which is predominantly Christian. Also there are lots of wild pigs running around in the forests which are frequently not considered Haram by the locals :P.