Located on more than 250,000 hectares of rainforest land on the east coast of Borneo's Kalimantan, the city will gradually replace Jakarta as ... government has planned smart energy grids to ...

JAKARTA--Indonesia’s parliament on Thursday designated special status for Jakarta, keeping the metropolis as the country’s economic epicenter, amid plans to move the capital city to Borneo island.

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.

The $32 billion project to relocate the national capital from Jakarta, a congested and sinking city, to the heart of Borneo, has been promoted internationally as a "smart and sustainable" urban ...

As Indonesia's new capital city, Borneo could take in up to 1.5 million new residents - mostly government employees and their families - from Jakarta, according to the nation's planning minister.