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JAKARTA (ANN/THE JAKARTA POST) – Legislators are currently debating a bill in the House of Representatives that aims to establish a legal framework for Jakarta’s role after it loses its capital status next year. However, concerns have arisen regarding a provision in the bill that could potentially deprive the city’s 10 million residents of their […]
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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.
As the Indonesian government waits for the House of Representatives to start deliberating the Capital City Bill, doubts over the capital relocation plan’s promise for a less Java-centred development have resurfaced, with experts believing that the economic spark need not even be tied to the project.