There are DESPERATE plans to move an entire sinking city 1,200 miles away to a huge island full of creepy jungle tribes.
More than 1.9 million residents in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, could be forced to relocate in a highly ambitious $30 billion plan, with the first people set to move into the new city by the end of October 2024.
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The island will be called Nusantara and could cover an impressive 1,000 square miles.
Despite this large amount, only 216 square miles have been set aside for the project and the remaining land is reserved for when they need an expansion.
Jakarta has a growing population of 11 million and chilling predictions say that by 2050, around 95 percent of North Jakarta will be submerged underwater.
This has led the Indonesian government to plan to create a utopian-style design aimed at creating an environmentally friendly “smart” city.
At least 21 indigenous groups live in the jungle area proposed as the new Jakarta.
Indonesia’s parliament earmarked plans to move the city to Borneo, in East Kalimantan province, near Brunei.
The plans have been kept under wraps for some time, but released CGI images have confirmed government offices and a 150-metre-high presidential palace.
Fascinating images now also show the reconversion of the city being very busy.
Roads and buildings are being built at impressive speeds while once-towering trees have been felled to make room.
It is estimated that there are 200,000 workers on the site.
President Joko Widodo said in 2022: “The construction of the new capital is not simply a physical relocation of government offices.
“The main goal is to build a new smart city, a new city that is globally competitive, build a new locomotive for the transformation towards an Indonesia based on innovation and technology based on a green economy.”
In his latest speech on Nusantara, he said there will be “zero emissions” in the new city that will be “a magnet for global talent and a hub of innovation.”
Nusantara, which means archipelago, will reportedly be powered by a 50-megawatt solar plant.
It is expected that by 2030 only electric vehicles and bicycles will be allowed in the city.
The transition was scheduled to begin in 2020 with the first stages of construction, but plans were hampered by the coronavirus. pandemic.
The moving process will take place in several mini stages with the hope that everything will be solved by 2045.
The first stage begins at the end of 2024, when the first residents will be officially rehoused.
To begin with, 6,000 government workers will be relocated, while the others will gradually do the same.
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Planning Minister Suharso Monoarfa told parliament: “The new capital has a central function and is a symbol of the nation’s identity, as well as a new center of economic gravity.”
It’s still unclear where the money will come from to pay for the massive move.
The Indonesian government has only committed 20 percent of the funding so far and is asking for help from other funding sources.
‘STRATEGIC POSITION’
The megacity of Jakarta has long suffered from a series of problems such as congestion, flooding and severe air pollution.
In fact, plans to move the city have been proposed for years, but none have gone as far as Nusantara.
The new city will strengthen supply chains and place Indonesia “in a more strategic position in global trade routes, investment flows and technological innovation,” the government announced.
The plan has been criticized by the area’s Alliance of Indigenous Peoples of the Archipelago (AMAN), which says it is unfair to expel people already living in East Kalimantan province.
Muhammad Arman, director of Policy, Law and Human Rights Advocacy at AMAM, told AFP: “The project will lead to problems such as the confiscation of customary lands and the criminalization of indigenous peoples when they try to defend their rights.
“They will also lose their traditional jobs, such as agriculture.”
It has also been rejected because of the potential ecological damage that could occur by replacing the jungle area with a built civilization.
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