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Serious Indon Capital Sinks!
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They are building a new capital.
Indonesia’s new capital city to use autonomous cars and EVs only – non-EVs prohibited from entering
Indonesia will be relocating its capital city from Jakarta to East Kalimantan, and president Joko Widodo revealed recently that the city will only use autonomous and electric vehicles for mass transportation, The Jakarta Post reported. East Kalimantan is a province on the island of Borneo, one which it shares with Malaysia and Brunei.
The president aims to turn the new capital into the first city in the world to use EVs and self-driving cars. “Mass transportation will be autonomous there. Private cars will also be autonomous or electric,” Jokowi said recently at the Indonesian Young Entrepreneurs Association. “We can be the first capital city with mass and private transportation using autonomous and electric vehicles. We will build it that way so everything can be efficient and cheap,” he added.
The plan aligns with the Indonesian government’s vision of promoting electric cars, with a greater goal of reducing the country’s carbon emissions (its greenhouse gas emissions ranks among the highest in the world) while promoting domestic battery production. Indonesia is rich in cobalt and manganese, the two main components for making EV batteries.
Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister, Luhut Pandjaitan said: “Non-electric vehicles cannot enter the new capital city. They must park and the passengers enter the city using public transportation. There will be parking lots for non-EVs.” The Indonesian government added that the public transport sector will use autonomous systems such as autonomous bus rapid transit and an autonomous railway.
To further drive EV uptake, Luhut said there will be lithium battery-production facilities in the new capital city to ensure the availability of power for the EVs. “We will produce lithium batteries in the region with hydropower energy. At the moment, Andrew Forrest (mining tycoon) from Australia is there to conduct [feasibility] studies, and also to look at hydro-green energy that will be produced after lithium batteries.”
Apparently, the new capital will be developed using transit-oriented development (TOD) methods, which means every business and entertainment centre will be accessible within walking distance. Unlike Jakarta, the city will be compact, connected, and developed into clusters. This way, individuals can get to different destinations in just 10 minutes instead of travelling two hours by car to work.
The government aims to have 80% of the people’s transportation needs to be served by public transportation, walking or cycling. This may prove to be a challenge considering the temperate, tropical conditions, but the land which the new city will sit on is currently a forested area. The new city will be developed on 256,000 hectares, but buildings and infrastructure will only take a fifth at 56,000 hectares. The rest are green areas.
Now, the project is expected to cost 466 trillion rupiah (RM138.2 billion). The construction of government buildings and facilities will be fully funded by the state budget, while other development projects are expected to be funded by private sector funds and investments. The capital city relocation will take place by the end of Jokowi’s second term in 2024.
What’s more, road access to and from the new city will be built this year, and the Indonesian government is looking for several foreign partners to help develop the green capital city. Discussions with SoftBank Group founder and CEO Masayoshi Son, SoftBank-backed ride-hailing Grab CEO Anthony Tan are ongoing; Jokowi had also offered the Crown Prince of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, a position on the steering committee of the new capital city project.
The relocation project is undoubtedly ambitious. With this, the government wants to depict Indonesia as a forward-thinking and futuristic civilisation, but that doesn’t mean it’s free from controversies.
One of the biggest risks in building a new capital in Borneo, according to Business Insider Malaysia, is that the planned deforestation could further raise Indonesia’s greenhouse gas emissions. Borneo’s forests consist largely of peatland, a type of wetland that holds about 12 times more carbon than other tropical rainforests. Just one hectare of peatland can release around 6,000 metric tonnes of CO2 when cleared.
And then there’s the residents. The clustered “compact city” may take up less land mass, but the relocation could see more than 1.5 million new residents, mostly government employees and their families, uproot from Jakarta, according to Indonesia’s planning minister. To accommodate these residents, Indonesia plans to develop hundreds of thousands of acres of land.
However, the minister has promised not to clear any protected forests, but the peatlands will have to be drained to support the construction buildings and highways, which could make the turf drier and more vulnerable to fires. Many parts of Borneo’s peatland forest have been cleared via burning for palm oil plantations, which released more than 140 million metric tonnes of CO2. That’s about the same as the annual emissions of 28 million cars.
Indonesia’s new capital city to use autonomous cars and EVs only – non-EVs prohibited from entering
Indonesia will be relocating its capital city from Jakarta to East Kalimantan, and president Joko Widodo revealed recently that the city will only use autonomous and electric vehicles for mass transportation, The Jakarta Post reported. East Kalimantan is a province on the island of Borneo, one which it shares with Malaysia and Brunei.
The president aims to turn the new capital into the first city in the world to use EVs and self-driving cars. “Mass transportation will be autonomous there. Private cars will also be autonomous or electric,” Jokowi said recently at the Indonesian Young Entrepreneurs Association. “We can be the first capital city with mass and private transportation using autonomous and electric vehicles. We will build it that way so everything can be efficient and cheap,” he added.
The plan aligns with the Indonesian government’s vision of promoting electric cars, with a greater goal of reducing the country’s carbon emissions (its greenhouse gas emissions ranks among the highest in the world) while promoting domestic battery production. Indonesia is rich in cobalt and manganese, the two main components for making EV batteries.
Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister, Luhut Pandjaitan said: “Non-electric vehicles cannot enter the new capital city. They must park and the passengers enter the city using public transportation. There will be parking lots for non-EVs.” The Indonesian government added that the public transport sector will use autonomous systems such as autonomous bus rapid transit and an autonomous railway.
To further drive EV uptake, Luhut said there will be lithium battery-production facilities in the new capital city to ensure the availability of power for the EVs. “We will produce lithium batteries in the region with hydropower energy. At the moment, Andrew Forrest (mining tycoon) from Australia is there to conduct [feasibility] studies, and also to look at hydro-green energy that will be produced after lithium batteries.”
Apparently, the new capital will be developed using transit-oriented development (TOD) methods, which means every business and entertainment centre will be accessible within walking distance. Unlike Jakarta, the city will be compact, connected, and developed into clusters. This way, individuals can get to different destinations in just 10 minutes instead of travelling two hours by car to work.
The government aims to have 80% of the people’s transportation needs to be served by public transportation, walking or cycling. This may prove to be a challenge considering the temperate, tropical conditions, but the land which the new city will sit on is currently a forested area. The new city will be developed on 256,000 hectares, but buildings and infrastructure will only take a fifth at 56,000 hectares. The rest are green areas.
Now, the project is expected to cost 466 trillion rupiah (RM138.2 billion). The construction of government buildings and facilities will be fully funded by the state budget, while other development projects are expected to be funded by private sector funds and investments. The capital city relocation will take place by the end of Jokowi’s second term in 2024.
What’s more, road access to and from the new city will be built this year, and the Indonesian government is looking for several foreign partners to help develop the green capital city. Discussions with SoftBank Group founder and CEO Masayoshi Son, SoftBank-backed ride-hailing Grab CEO Anthony Tan are ongoing; Jokowi had also offered the Crown Prince of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, a position on the steering committee of the new capital city project.
The relocation project is undoubtedly ambitious. With this, the government wants to depict Indonesia as a forward-thinking and futuristic civilisation, but that doesn’t mean it’s free from controversies.
One of the biggest risks in building a new capital in Borneo, according to Business Insider Malaysia, is that the planned deforestation could further raise Indonesia’s greenhouse gas emissions. Borneo’s forests consist largely of peatland, a type of wetland that holds about 12 times more carbon than other tropical rainforests. Just one hectare of peatland can release around 6,000 metric tonnes of CO2 when cleared.
And then there’s the residents. The clustered “compact city” may take up less land mass, but the relocation could see more than 1.5 million new residents, mostly government employees and their families, uproot from Jakarta, according to Indonesia’s planning minister. To accommodate these residents, Indonesia plans to develop hundreds of thousands of acres of land.
However, the minister has promised not to clear any protected forests, but the peatlands will have to be drained to support the construction buildings and highways, which could make the turf drier and more vulnerable to fires. Many parts of Borneo’s peatland forest have been cleared via burning for palm oil plantations, which released more than 140 million metric tonnes of CO2. That’s about the same as the annual emissions of 28 million cars.
McKinsey, Nikken Sekkei, AECOM hired to design Indonesia’s new capital
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo (left) and East Kalimantan Governor Isran Noor (right) visit Sepaku district in North Penajam Paser, East Kalimantan on Dec. 18, 2019. The district is part of the area on which Indonesia's new capital is to be built. (Presidential Palace Press Bureau/Muchlis Jr)
The Indonesian government is involving three international consulting firms in developing the masterplan of the country’s new capital city, which is to be located in East Kalimantan.
Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said on Friday that American engineering company AECOM, consulting firm McKinsey & Company and Japanese architectural and engineering firm Nikken Sekkei would design the city, which is to feature the latest technology and be environmentally friendly at the same time.
Sepaku Village, Penajam Paser Utara Regency, East Kalimantan, will be the location of the nation's capital. (JP/Gede Dharma )
McKinsey has been hired to assist the National Development Planning Agency, while Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, which has pledged to invest in the project, will work with Nikken Sekkei.
“[The consulting firms] have experience designing large cities,” said Luhut during the sidelines of a meeting on the megaproject that was also attended by former British prime minister Tony Blair and SoftBank founder and chief executive officer Masayoshi Son.
Read also: Jokowi's grand vision for new capital
The Indonesian government attracted global attention when it announced in August that it would move its capital from the flood-prone and sinking Jakarta on Java Island to a 256,000-hectare forested area straddling the regencies of North Penajam Paser and Kutai Kartanegara in East Kalimantan on Borneo, an island that it shares with Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam.
The government has estimated that the new capital would cost Rp 466 trillion (US$34.06 billion) and has declared it would finance one-fifth of that through the state budget.
Jokowi said that public money would fully fund the construction of the 5,600-ha downtown area of the new capital, where the new presidential palace and other government buildings would sit.
The government previously appointed Blair, Son and UAE Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed al Nahyan to the steering committee for the project.
It was earlier revealed that the UAE government was prepared to invest $22.8 billion in Indonesia through a sovereign wealth fund, together with SoftBank and the United States International Development Finance Corporation.
- Marchio Irfan Gorbiano
The Jakarta Post
The Indonesian government is involving three international consulting firms in developing the masterplan of the country’s new capital city, which is to be located in East Kalimantan.
Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said on Friday that American engineering company AECOM, consulting firm McKinsey & Company and Japanese architectural and engineering firm Nikken Sekkei would design the city, which is to feature the latest technology and be environmentally friendly at the same time.
McKinsey has been hired to assist the National Development Planning Agency, while Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, which has pledged to invest in the project, will work with Nikken Sekkei.
“[The consulting firms] have experience designing large cities,” said Luhut during the sidelines of a meeting on the megaproject that was also attended by former British prime minister Tony Blair and SoftBank founder and chief executive officer Masayoshi Son.
Read also: Jokowi's grand vision for new capital
The Indonesian government attracted global attention when it announced in August that it would move its capital from the flood-prone and sinking Jakarta on Java Island to a 256,000-hectare forested area straddling the regencies of North Penajam Paser and Kutai Kartanegara in East Kalimantan on Borneo, an island that it shares with Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam.
The government has estimated that the new capital would cost Rp 466 trillion (US$34.06 billion) and has declared it would finance one-fifth of that through the state budget.
Jokowi said that public money would fully fund the construction of the 5,600-ha downtown area of the new capital, where the new presidential palace and other government buildings would sit.
The government previously appointed Blair, Son and UAE Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed al Nahyan to the steering committee for the project.
It was earlier revealed that the UAE government was prepared to invest $22.8 billion in Indonesia through a sovereign wealth fund, together with SoftBank and the United States International Development Finance Corporation.
Indonesia picks Borneo island for new capital
Indonesia wants to move its capital from congested Jakarta to a new purpose-built city in east Kalimantan
Indonesia will move its capital to the eastern edge of jungle-clad Borneo island, President Joko Widodo said Monday, as the country shifts its political heart away from congested and sinking megalopolis Jakarta.
The proposed location—near the regional cities of Balikpapan and Samarinda—is an area at "minimal" risk of natural disasters, where the government already owns some 180,000 hectares (445,000 acres) of land, he added.
"The location is very strategic—it's in the centre of Indonesia and close to urban areas," Widodo said in a televised speech.
"The burden Jakarta is holding right now is too heavy as the centre of governance, business, finance, trade and services," he added.
The announcement ends months of speculation about whether Widodo would follow through on the long-mooted plan—it was floated by the newly independent country's founding father Sukarno more than half a century ago.
Shifting from problem-plagued Jakarta would also transfer Indonesia's power base off Java island, where about half of the sprawling archipelago's 260 million people live.
"Moving the capital off Java is a gesture that aims to solidify unity," said Jakarta-based political risk analyst Kevin O'Rourke.
"Jakarta will continue to be a megacity—as a centre for finance and commerce—for a few more decades, but ultimately it is at severe risk to climate change," he added.
Map of Indonesia showing approximate area of the proposed site of the country's new capital.
A bill for the proposed move will now be presented to parliament, Widodo said.
Building is set to begin next year with the move of some 1.5 million civil servants slated to begin by 2024, at a cost of 466 trillion rupiah ($33 billion), officials said.
Orangutans, mining
Known as Kalimantan, Indonesia's section of Borneo—the island it shares with Malaysia and Brunei—is home to major mining activities as well as rainforests, and is one of the few places on Earth with orangutans in their natural habitat.
Environmentalists expressed concerns the capital city move could threaten endangered species.
"The government must make sure that the new capital is not built in a conservation or protected area," said Greenpeace Indonesia campaigner Jasmine Putri.
The area around Samboja, Kutai Kartanegara, is one of two locations in Eastern Kalimantan chosen as a possible site for the new capital
The region has also been blanketed in choking haze from annual forest fires that ravage vast swathes of land.
"That makes Kalimantan unfit as a candidate for a new capital city," said Jakarta-based urban planning expert Nirwono Joga.
"And the move won't necessarily free Jakarta of problems like flooding, traffic jams and rapid urbanisation," he added.
Concerns have soared over the future of Jakarta—a city nicknamed "the Big Durian" after the pungent, spiky fruit that deeply divides fans and detractors.
Built on swampland, the city is one of the fastest-sinking cities on earth, with experts warning that one third of it could be submerged by 2050 if current rates continue. The problem is largely linked to excessive groundwater extraction.
But the city of 10 million—a number that bloats to about 30 million with surrounding satellite cities—is also plagued by a host of other ills, from eye-watering traffic jams and pollution to the risk of earthquakes and floods.
Map showing the tidal inundation of Jakarta in 2012 and projected expansion in 2025 and 2050.
Indonesia is not the first Southeast Asian country to move its capital.
Myanmar and Malaysia have both moved their seat of government, while Brazil, Pakistan and Nigeria are among the nations that have also shifted their capital cities.
Indonesia will move its capital to the eastern edge of jungle-clad Borneo island, President Joko Widodo said Monday, as the country shifts its political heart away from congested and sinking megalopolis Jakarta.
The proposed location—near the regional cities of Balikpapan and Samarinda—is an area at "minimal" risk of natural disasters, where the government already owns some 180,000 hectares (445,000 acres) of land, he added.
"The location is very strategic—it's in the centre of Indonesia and close to urban areas," Widodo said in a televised speech.
"The burden Jakarta is holding right now is too heavy as the centre of governance, business, finance, trade and services," he added.
The announcement ends months of speculation about whether Widodo would follow through on the long-mooted plan—it was floated by the newly independent country's founding father Sukarno more than half a century ago.
Shifting from problem-plagued Jakarta would also transfer Indonesia's power base off Java island, where about half of the sprawling archipelago's 260 million people live.
"Moving the capital off Java is a gesture that aims to solidify unity," said Jakarta-based political risk analyst Kevin O'Rourke.
"Jakarta will continue to be a megacity—as a centre for finance and commerce—for a few more decades, but ultimately it is at severe risk to climate change," he added.
A bill for the proposed move will now be presented to parliament, Widodo said.
Building is set to begin next year with the move of some 1.5 million civil servants slated to begin by 2024, at a cost of 466 trillion rupiah ($33 billion), officials said.
Orangutans, mining
Known as Kalimantan, Indonesia's section of Borneo—the island it shares with Malaysia and Brunei—is home to major mining activities as well as rainforests, and is one of the few places on Earth with orangutans in their natural habitat.
Environmentalists expressed concerns the capital city move could threaten endangered species.
"The government must make sure that the new capital is not built in a conservation or protected area," said Greenpeace Indonesia campaigner Jasmine Putri.
The region has also been blanketed in choking haze from annual forest fires that ravage vast swathes of land.
"That makes Kalimantan unfit as a candidate for a new capital city," said Jakarta-based urban planning expert Nirwono Joga.
"And the move won't necessarily free Jakarta of problems like flooding, traffic jams and rapid urbanisation," he added.
Concerns have soared over the future of Jakarta—a city nicknamed "the Big Durian" after the pungent, spiky fruit that deeply divides fans and detractors.
Built on swampland, the city is one of the fastest-sinking cities on earth, with experts warning that one third of it could be submerged by 2050 if current rates continue. The problem is largely linked to excessive groundwater extraction.
But the city of 10 million—a number that bloats to about 30 million with surrounding satellite cities—is also plagued by a host of other ills, from eye-watering traffic jams and pollution to the risk of earthquakes and floods.
Indonesia is not the first Southeast Asian country to move its capital.
Myanmar and Malaysia have both moved their seat of government, while Brazil, Pakistan and Nigeria are among the nations that have also shifted their capital cities.
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