The Indonesian capital of Jakarta is home to 10 million people but it is also one of the fastest-sinking cities in the world.

Jakarta itself is home to about 10 million people and three times that number in the greater metropolitan area. It has been described as the world’s most rapidly sinking city, and at the current ...

Jakarta is the world's fastest sinking city. But the Indonesian government's plan to move the capital 800 miles away risks draining the country's resources and damaging its reputation as investors ...

Indonesia is considering building a huge seawall to prevent its largest city Jakarta from sinking into the ocean. The country is the world’s largest archipelago consisting of over 17,000 islands ...

he lamented. According to the Global Risk Report in 2022, Jakarta has earned the unfortunate distinction of being the "Most Vulnerable City" among 576 major cities globally. This label is a result of ...

A new 50MW solar-plus-storage plant near Indonesia's new capital city, Nusantara, on the island of Borneo, has been opened.

Indonesia's new President Prabowo Subianto plans to spend 48.8 trillion rupiah ($2.99 billion) through 2029 to build the new ...

The Indonesian government plans to move the capital to Nusantara, a new city being built on ... rising sea levels have made Jakarta the world's fastest-sinking megacity, which sparked the ...

The Jakarta branch of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) said that the government’s plan to stop issuing new groundwater extraction permits to businessmen in the Greater Jakarta ...

Jakarta is sinking by an average of 1-15cm a year and almost half the city now sits below sea level. The impact is immediately apparent in North Jakarta. In the district of Muara Baru, an entire ...