ON JANUARY 18th Indonesia announced that its new capital city will be named Nusantara (“archipelago” in Javanese). The country’s president, Joko Widodo, dismissed 80 other options before deciding on ...

This week, Indonesia is slated to inaugurate a brand new city. Nusantara is set to become the capital of the world’s fourth most populous country. And the city’s construction comes with a price tag of ...

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