Indonesia’s new capital falls victim to the politics of forgetting

In the final years of Joko Widodo’s presidency, Nusantara —Indonesia’s new capital in East Kalimantan —was hailed as a bold experiment in nation-building. Conceived as a sustainable smart city meant to redistribute growth beyond Java’s overburdened plains, it was Jokowi’s grandest legacy project, his version of a national moonshot. It promised to symbolize Indonesia’s emergence
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