Your comments about the idea to move the capital city as revived by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, from overburdened Jakarta to elsewhere in this country.
His plan will never address the problems in Jakarta. It’s much better for SBY to remove the problems in Jakarta, not to move the capital from Jakarta.
Fajar Erlangga
Depok, West Java
Moving the capital city would be utterly useless if law enforcement could not be implemented. For sure, the mega-project will only benefit the well-connected opportunists and the big conglomerates.
Sutikno
Jakarta
Moving the capital city? Well, there are other more important matters to think about and resolve, like education, health and poverty. I do not see any reason at all to move the capital. Tourists enjoy staying and see Jakarta as a complex city; state guests feel comfortable to go on Jakarta’s roads.
Moving the capital city means abolishing parts of the history of Indonesia.
Bambang
Jakarta
I agree we should move the capital of Indonesia, like Putrajaya from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Washington from New York in the United States, Rawalpindi from Islamabad in Pakistan; new capital in the forest area near Rangoon in Myanmar. Jakarta is overburdened; it is difficult to have more than one meeting in a day in Jakarta. Jakarta is not an efficient city; everything moves slowly, even the people and the economy. With the poor water resources and pollution, transportation is not good in the capital.
It is very important to distribute the wealth and resources to more cities in the near future to make a more equal establishment. The first thing I would like to suggest would be to move to Palangkaraya (very good roads and well-designed) where our founding president Sukarno had intended to build the capital of Indonesia.
It is far from tsunamis and earthquakes; it is possible to develop; transmigration could be done much better; it has facilities such as universities, hospitals and markets for Palangkaraya and the surrounding area; forest rehabilitation could be faster; there is rubber, oil palms, the wood industry; and the relocation to a new city will make it more comfortable for most Indonesians.
We can also establish a larger area for developing our cattle industry for milk, meat and other industries surrounding Palangkaraya. Former president Soeharto wanted to move to Jonggol, so we must support SBY government’s idea of moving the capital and let it become reality.
Suhardi
Yogyakarta
