Nusantara
city · earth
Indonesia's new capital under construction in East Kalimantan, legislated in early 2022 after President Joko Widodo announced the relocation in August 2019, and the most instructive new-build city of the present decade because its trajectory is being reported in real time. The executive core — palace and ministry buildings — is reported by the project authority as substantially complete, and a symbolic Independence Day ceremony was held on site in August 2024. Beyond that core, the picture as of 2026 is of a project decelerating: retrieved reporting describes roughly 800 of a planned 6,600 hectares of the government area developed, a resident population in the low tens of thousands including about a thousand civil servants, state funding cut sharply for 2026, and the site's status downgraded in official language to a "political capital" with a presidential move now discussed for 2028. Nothing here is evidence that it cannot be built. It is evidence about what building a city actually costs in sustained annual appropriation, and how quickly that becomes contested when the government that promised it changes.
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- Story
- Indonesia's new capital under construction in East Kalimantan, legislated in early 2022 after President Joko Widodo announced the relocation in August 2019, and the most instructive new-build city of the present decade because its trajectory is being reported in real time. The executive core — palace and ministry buildings — is reported by the project authority as substantially complete, and a symbolic Independence Day ceremony was held on site in August 2024. Beyond that core, the picture as of 2026 is of a project decelerating: retrieved reporting describes roughly 800 of a planned 6,600 hectares of the government area developed, a resident population in the low tens of thousands including about a thousand civil servants, state funding cut sharply for 2026, and the site's status downgraded in official language to a "political capital" with a presidential move now discussed for 2028. Nothing here is evidence that it cannot be built. It is evidence about what building a city actually costs in sustained annual appropriation, and how quickly that becomes contested when the government that promised it changes.
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- Nusantara
- Urban land subsidence
- Connections
- Urban land subsidence
- Indonesia announces the capital move to East Kalimantan
- Independence Day is marked at Nusantara
- Nusantara's funding is cut and its status downgraded
- Nusantara
- Jakarta
- Urban water supply and sanitation
- Evidence
- Supports the account of Nusantara as of 2026: an executive core reported near-complete by the project authority, roughly 800 of 6,600 planned hectares of the government area developed, a resident population in the low tens of thousands, sharply reduced state funding for 2026, the reframing of the site as a "political capital", and a presidential move discussed for 2028. V55 verification basis: international reporting quoting officials and the project authority; no Indonesian budget or IKN Authority document was opened.
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