When Edy Mulyadi, a journalist and small-time politician, hit the headlines in Indonesia last month for calling the location of its planned new capital city "a place where genies dump kids", he sparked a backlash from community groups in Kalimantan. But the resulting debate also revealed the extent to which tales of the supernatural pervade modern-day thinking across the archipelago.
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): As Indonesia moved one step closer to relocating the nation's capital from Jakarta to East Kalimantan with the recent enactment of the State Capital Law, speculation on who President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo will pick to be responsible for governing the new capital has emerged.