Indonesia’s new capital city promises luxury hotels, flying taxis and more … but you won’t find any of these things there yet.
Promising flying taxis, luxury hotels and a huge palace in the shape of a bird, Nusantara is set to be Asia’s newest megacity.
Instead, Nusantara is a mostly mythical promise of a national capital, a series of construction scars in the jungle, where the most concrete fact beyond the foundations taking shape are the missed deadlines and ruined careers .Indonesia’s first city and capital Jakarta is plagued with water problems: it has too much sewage, not enough drinkable water, it’s breathtakingly overcrowded and you can’t get from here to there whether you walk, ride, bike or drive.
Home to little beyond a few palm-oil plantations, the area is about 30 kilometres north-west of Balikpapan, a coastal city of about 600,000 known for cheap hotels, decent beaches and about the only vibrant nightlife in Borneo. Jokowi spent his first night in the palace in July and showed reporters its views overlooking the building sites. He declared the water and electricity to be “working”, although he’s said to have privately groused about the speed of the internet. He also was cagey about just how many nights he was spending in the palace.
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