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After more than a year’s delay, the plan to relocate the nation’s capital to East Kalimantan will proceed, the government has said, with the first order of business being to formalize the legal framework for the construction of the new city.
Law experts and observers are looking askance at the Indonesian legislature as it announces its 33 priority bills for the year, most of which are holdovers from last year, notwithstanding the legislature’s poor performance that lawmakers blamed on "the pandemic".
Bappenas head Suharso Monoarfa confirmed with The Jakarta Post on Wednesday that the capital relocation plan had been suspended for the time being, since the pandemic had forced the government to shift its policies.
The growing urban middle-income population has undergone dietary and lifestyle changes in recent years toward more grains and oilseed commodities, vegetables, fruit, fish and chicken. Hence, while the agricultural support policy should continue to aim at keeping our dependence on rice imports very low, the government should allocate more resources to the production of other food crops and horticulture.
It was a strategic match. Jokowi, as the Indonesian president is known, is eager to find investors in an ambitious $400 billion infrastructure program. Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nayhan is looking to expand his country’s presence in fast-growing Asian markets. But there’s more to it than that.
The process of relocating Indonesia's capital city to East Kalimantan is to go on as planned despite the COVID-19 pandemic in the archipelago, the Office of the Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister has said.
