Indonesia is constructing an entire new capital city in Borneo called Nusantara — from scratch. What's at stake?

Credits
Reporter: Beina Xu
Camera: Taris Hizi Iman & Georg Matthes
Translation: Taris Hizi Iman
Supervising editors: Joanna Gottschalk, Kiyo Dörrer & Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann

Special thanks to Georg Matthes and Taris Hizi Iman of DW's Asia Pacific Bureau in Jakarta for their fantastic research and filming on the ground.

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Read more:
Understanding the Allure of Big Infrastructure: Jakarta's Great Garuda Sea Wall Project: https://www.water-alternatives.org/in...

New capital cities as tools of development and nation-building: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Environmental Impacts of Planned Capitals and Lessons for Indonesia's New Capital: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

The evolution of Jakarta's flood policy over the past 400 years: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/catalog/uuid:26d...

5 Maps Show How Moving Indonesia's Capital Could Impact the Environment: https://thecityfix.com/blog/5-maps-sh...

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:57 What's happening in Jakarta?
04:05 Nusantara
05:45 Environmental and social costs
07:41 Energy concerns
08:45 Wait, what about Jakarta?
10:27 The future
11:20 Conclusion