Why Indonesia is building a whole new capital

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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. We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess. #PlanetA #IndonesiaNewCapital #Nusantara Read more: Understanding the Allure of Big Infrastructure: Jakarta's Great Garuda Sea Wall Project: https://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol10/v10issue2/354-a10-2-4/file New capital cities as tools of development and nation-building: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209044792100040X Environmental Impacts of Planned Capitals and Lessons for Indonesia's New Capital: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345787165_Environmental_Impacts_of_Planned_Capitals_and_Lessons_for_Indonesia%27s_New_Capital The evolution of Jakarta's flood policy over the past 400 years: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/catalog/uuid:26d49150-c421-4554-93cf-6fef37e5fcd6/download_file?file_format=application%2Fpdf&safe_filename=The%2Bevolution%2Bof%2BJakarta_s%2Bflood%2Bpolicy%2Bover%2Bthe%2Bpast%2B400%2Byears.pdf 5 Maps Show How Moving Indonesia's Capital Could Impact the Environment: https://thecityfix.com/blog/5-maps-show-moving-indonesias-capital-impact-environment-emily-cassidy-hidayah-hamzah/ 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