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The Capital City Sinking into the Sea

Indonesia has announced plans to move its capital from the climate-threatened megalopolis of Jakarta to the once jungle-covered island of Borneo, 800 miles away.

Indonesia has announced plans to move its capital from the climate-threatened megalopolis of Jakarta to the once jungle-covered island of Borneo, 800 miles away. Jakarta has become crowded, polluted and is sinking at an alarming rate.

The move will be one of the biggest infrastructure projects the government has ever undertaken. But what will it take to uproot a capital - and at what cost?

Rebecca Henschke reports from Indonesia.

30 minutes

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Sun 1 Mar 202010:30GMT

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