Indonesia is making progress on building a new capital in the middle of the jungle to replace congested and sinking Jakarta.

Our neighbour Indonesia has not been spared with its capital Jakarta now under threat of being submerged after it began sinking over the past few decades. Often, such a phenomenon is attributed to ...

JAKARTA--Jakarta is congested, polluted, prone to earthquakes and rapidly sinking into the Java Sea. Now the government is leaving, and moving the country’s capital to the island of Borneo.

Researchers like Heri Andreas and Hiroshi Takagi doubt that the giant embankment is the ultimate solution to Jakarta's sinking threat. "Yes, in the short term, it’s non-negotiable that the embankment ...

Unfortunately, Jakarta is also known as one of the fastest-sinking cities in the world, and the issue has become so extreme that the Indonesian government has chosen to abandon it as a capital.

Image by Irfan Maulana/Mongabay Indonesia. Overreliance on drilling wells into the aquifer for residential and commercial water means Jakarta is sinking by around 15 centimeters (6 inches ...

THOUSANDS of people have been displaced after days of heavy rain paralysed Greater Jakarta, flooding homes and businesses, ...

Amidst the alarming reality of rising global temperatures and sea levels, numerous coastal cities are grappling with the ominous prospect of sinking into the depths of the ocean. From Jakarta to ...

Indonesia plans to move its capital city away from congested and sinking Jakarta, to Nusantara, a $32-billion city under construction in the jungles of East Kalimantan on Borneo. The city is a ...

The country's capital, Jakarta, has been sinking with 40% of the capital lying below sea level, per The New York Times. Because of this, the city has faced severe flooding, especially as climate ...

(RTTNews) - The Indonesia stock market has moved lower in two straight sessions, sinking almost 85 points or 1.3 percent along the way. The Jakarta Composite Index now sits just beneath the 6,550 ...