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Jakarta is Moving

Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, with all its ten million inhabitants, is

moving. Among the many problems that President Joko Widodo thinks
this transition will solve, such as tremendous congestion, environmental

pollution and the risk of earthquakes, there is also one small matter - by
the end of two thousand and fifty, Jakarta is going to sink under the Java
Sea. So the Indonesian government decided to build a new capital city on
the island of Borneo. For starters, at least one and a half million civil

servants will move to the new city that will also be a sustainable city with
better public transportation and with construction that is as
environmentally adjusted as possible. But destroying two thousand and

five hundred miles of jungle, which is home to the population of
orangutans, tigers and other wildlife animals that live on this island, is not
very environmental. And there is also the issue of price - the Indonesian
government is going to spend thirty-four billion dollars on this move. But

when every year the state spends about four and a half billion dollars on
the flood damage that takes over Jakarta again and again, there is a chance
that despite the price it will still be worth it.

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