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Jokowi delays relocation to Nusantara, will move there ‘once the place is ready’
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President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo visits on June 5, 2024, the venue that will host the Independence Day celebration at the Nusantara Capital City (IKN). (BPMI Setpres/Vico)
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resident Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has decided to postpone his plan to work from the country’s future capital Nusantara in East Kalimantan after key infrastructure projects, such as water supply and electricity, have so far failed to meet their July completion deadlines.
The Nusantara Capital City (IKN) is Jokowi’s mega relocation project, and his administration has been racing to complete it before the outgoing leader steps out of office in October.
Jokowi last month announced his plan to start working from his new office in Nusantara in July, when the first construction phase of government buildings was due to finish, just a month before a grand Independence Day celebration is expected to take place in the new city.
But Jokowi has reconsidered the plan because basic infrastructure was not yet ready.
"If the water is ready, if the electricity is ready, if the place is ready, we will move there," Jokowi told reporters on Tuesday on the sidelines of an event at the Halim Perdanakusuma Air Force Base in Jakarta.
“I have received [a report from the Public Works and Housing Ministry which said that Nusantara] is not yet ready.”
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