The government says that the new city would be built on state land near the existing urban centres of Balikpapan and Samarinda and has promised the environmental impact will be positive. Kalimantan is home to major mining activities as well as rainforests, and is one of the few places where orangutans live in their natural habitat. The problem has been exacerbated by the explosion of new apartment blocks, shopping malls and even government offices and increases in the risk of a catastrophic flooding. The city does not pipe in enough drinkable water, so Jakartans rely largely on wells which extract water from shallow aquifers, leading to the the land above it collapsing. Areas of north Jakarta, including the seawall designed to protect them, are falling at an estimated 25cm a year, due to subsidence. Air quality in the city has plunged over the last few months, recording worse conditions in June than notoriously polluted cities such as Delhi and Beijing, prompting a group of activists and environmentalists to sue the government to take action. Jakarta is also struggling under a huge environmental burden. “The burden Jakarta is holding right now is too heavy as the centre of governance, business, finance, trade and services.” “The location is very strategic – it’s in the centre of Indonesia and close to urban areas,” the president said in a televised speech. Kalimantan is also much more central in Indonesia’s archipelago of 17,000 islands. Kalimantan is almost four times bigger, but accounts for less than a tenth of the gross domestic production. Java is home to 60% of the country’s population and more than half of its economic activity. Widodo says that the relocation is about addressing inequality and relieving some of the burden on Jakarta, and the island of Java. The government expects to start moving some of its bureaucrats by around 2024. If parliament approves the bill, construction on the new capital would begin next year on a plot of 40,000 hectares. The price tag includes new government offices and homes for about 1.5 million civil servants. Widodo said moving the capital would cost 466 trillion rupiah ($32.7bn), of which the state would fund 19%, with the rest from public-private partnerships and private investment. However, Jakarta will continue to be the nation’s commercial and financial centre, and it is believed that the majority of its nearly 10m residents would stay in Jakarta. Kalimantan is the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo, which is also shared with Malaysia and Brunei. The move would see the government’s administrative functions moved from Jakarta to a yet-to-be-built city in Kalimantan, more than 1,000km away. CjxTz3joQ4- Joko Widodo AugWhere will the new capital be? Hasilnya, lokasi ibu kota baru paling ideal adalah di Kalimantan Timur, sebagian di Kab. Pada siang yang berbahagia ini, saya menyampaikan bahwa pemerintah telah melakukan kajian mendalam, terutama tiga tahun terakhir.
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