Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nWidodo’s announcement comes months after he said he wanted\nto move the capital, seeking a place that can offer a break from Jakarta’s\nenvironmental challenges as well as its relentlessly gridlocked traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While rising seawater levels from climate change are a widespread\nconcern for island and coastal areas worldwide, experts say Jakarta has played\na central role in its own predicament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Jakarta’s problems are largely man-made,” NPR’s\nMerrit Kennedy reported earlier this year. “The area’s large population\nhas extracted so much groundwater that it has impacted the ground levels, and\nmany surface water resources are polluted.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As it looked for a new capital, Indonesia’s state planning\nand development agency, called Bappenas, chose the Kalimantan site because it\nfit all the government’s criteria, “including being relatively free from\nearthquakes and volcanoes,” The Jakarta Post reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new capital of Indonesia, which has yet to be named, would be in eastern Borneo, hundreds of miles northeast of Jakarta across the Java Sea. While the selected area is close to the cities of Balikpapan and Samarinda, the region is mostly known for its beaches and dense rainforests. Borneo’s lush jungles also form large national parks that are vital habitats for orangutans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Widodo’s announcement has met with a broad range of\nreactions, from concerns about the environmental impact on Borneo to support \u2014\nand suggestions that the president should focus more on Indonesia’s economy and\nits energy and health needs rather than on building a new capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s common for politicians to take office with promises to\nclean things up in the capital \u2014 to “drain the swamp.” But that\nrhetoric is both more literal and more complicated in Jakarta, which is seen as\n” the fastest-sinking city in the world, with almost half of its area\nbelow sea level,” Kennedy reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With Jakarta’s situation predicted to grow increasingly\ndire, Widodo announced his new-capital initiative shortly after winning\nreelection in April. And while some on Borneo welcomed the idea that its\ninfrastructure could get a boost, the idea of a central government moving in\nnext door also raised concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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