JAKARTA – Indonesia will construct a brand new capital within the province of East Kalimantan on Borneo island, media cited land planning minister Sofyan Djalil as saying on Thursday.
President Joko Widodo final week formally proposed to parliament shifting the capital from Jakarta, a crowded, polluted metropolis of 10 million individuals, to someplace in Kalimantan.
The Indonesian aspect of Borneo has 5 provinces, identified for his or her rainforests, orangutans and coal reserves.
“Sure, East Kalimantan, however we don’t know the place particularly,” Djalil was cited as saying by information web site Detik.com, when requested it East Kalimantan had been chosen as the positioning of the brand new capital.
The federal government has 3,000-hectare (7,413 acres) of land within the province for the primary stage of growth, Djalil informed media.
Media has speculated Widodo would decide East Kalimantan’s Bukit Soeharto space or the city of Samboja for the brand new centre of administration.
Bambang Brodjonegoro, the pinnacle of the nationwide growth planning company, Bappenas, lately stated that for higher connectivity within the archipelago, the capital should be a port metropolis.
Kennedy Simanjuntak, deputy chief of Bappenas, requested to verify Djalil’s remark, stated: “There isn’t a determination but by the federal government on the brand new location of the capital”.
Transferring the capital would value about $33 billion, a price ticket that features new authorities workplaces and houses for about 1.5 million civil servants anticipated to pack up and begin shifting by 2024, in response to Bappenas.