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Indonesia’s New Capital Is Plagued by Delays and Apathy

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The core government site with new Presidential Palace in Nusantara, Indonesia, on July 25. (Muhammad Fadli/Bloomberg)

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Indonesia has embarked on an ambitious project to build a new capital city from scratch because Jakarta is overcrowded, polluted and sinking, fast.

But the multibillion dollar new city, Nusantara, was plagued with problems from the very start. On today’s Big Take Asia Podcast, host K. Oanh Ha talks to Bloomberg’s Faris Mokhtar about what went wrong, and what’s at stake for Southeast Asia’s largest economy if it fails.

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