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View all search resultsCertain connecting roads in South Lampung regency, Lampung, appear to still be damaged despite President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s visit last year, following a viral video showing the worsening condition of the roads in the Sumatra’s southernmost province.
Bambang, a former Asian Development Bank (ADB) official, said in a statement posted on Instagram that everyone should support the construction of the new capital as it would symbolize Indonesia's vision of a new civilization that the country could realize in the year 2045.
President Jokowi's announcement that he will start working next month from an office in Nusantara, a giant construction site over 1,200km (750 miles) from the current capital Jakarta, is unlikely to allay fears about his legacy project, analysts say.
With Jakarta, the current capital of 10 million, overcrowded and plagued by massive traffic jams as well as chronic flooding and sinking land, Indonesia is building a new capital, called Nusantara, in the jungles of East Kalimantan.
A petition was filed with the court last month calling for the rules to be changed so that candidates could be 30 years old when they are inaugurated, rather than on the date when the election commission first confirms their bid.
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