Ka Peresidena o ʻInidonesia Ua ʻōlelo ʻia e hoʻoneʻe ʻia ke kapena nui o ka ʻāina i kahi i lilo i ʻāpana o ka Penajam Paser ʻĀkau a me Kutai Kartanegara ʻāpana i kona panalāʻau o Kalimantan Hikina, ma ka mokupuni ʻo Borneo.
Ke neʻe nei i ke kapitala mai Jakarta e loaʻa ana he 466 trillion rupiah ($ 32.79 biliona), a ʻo ka mokuʻāina e hoʻolana kālā he 19 pākēneka, me ke koena e loaʻa mai nā hana pilikino a me nā hoʻopukapuka pilikino, hoʻolaha ʻo Joko Widodo i ka Pōʻakahi.
ʻO Jakarta, ke kapikala o ka hā o ka ʻāina nui o ka honua, ma ka mokupuni ʻo Java, kahi home o 10 miliona mau kānaka a he prone i ka wai kahe a me nā alahele nui.
ʻO ke kahua o ke kapikala hou, 2,000km (1,250 mile) ma ka ʻākau o Jakarta, kekahi o nā wahi i hiki ʻole i nā pōpilikia kūlohelohe. Eia nō naʻe, makaʻu ka poʻe puni kaiapuni i kēia neʻe e wikiwiki i ka luku ʻia o nā ululāʻau i home o nā orangutan, nā bea o ka lā, a me nā ʻīlio ihu lōʻihi.
He aha e lawe ʻia mai kēia ʻatikala:
- The President of Indonesia said that the country’s capital will be moved to an area that forms part of the North Penajam Paser and Kutai Kartanegara regions in its province of East Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo.
- Jakarta, the capital of the world's fourth most populous country, on the island of Java, is now home to 10 million people and is prone to flooding and traffic gridlock.
- The site of the new capital, 2,000km (1,250 miles) northeast of Jakarta, is one of the regions least prone to natural disasters.
