Indonesian MPs have finally approved plans to move the capital from Jakarta to the jungles of Borneo.
The country’s parliament voted for a law that will allow the construction of a city called Nusantara, which means “archipelago”, in the East Kalimantan province.
The £24bn scheme is intended to ease the chronic traffic, overcrowding and flooding in low-lying Jakarta and to redistribute wealth, which is disproportionately concentrated on the island of Java.
Jakarta will continue to be the country’s business centre.
