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Indonesia Moving Capital from Jakarta Borneo Over Rising Sea Levels, Air Quality
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January 24, 2020
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1:22Now PlayingIndonesia is in a race against sea-level rise, which threatens to submerge swaths of its capital city, Jakarta, by 2050. For more than a decade, a steady stream of floods has devastated homes, vehicles, and businesses, particularly in the city's poorer neighborhoods.
Some of those floods have been deadly. In 2007, a flood killed around 80 people in Jakarta and inundated an estimated 70,000 homes. Then in 2013, nearly 50 people died after heavy rains caused a local dike to collapse.
In April, the Indonesian government decided that the strain on the city had become too much. Officials announced a $33 billion plan to relocate the capital, and this week they revealed that the new location will be in East Kalimantan, a province on the island of Borneo. Indonesia shares that island with two other nations: Malaysia and Brunei.
Construction on infrastructure for the new capital is set to begin in 2021, but environmentalists are already worried that it could endanger Borneo's remaining forests and raise carbon emissions.
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