Equally as challenging is that across Asia, coal remains a significant employer and source of revenue for local municipalities6. The Asian region is the coal industry’s biggest employer globally, and in provinces like Indonesia’s East Kalimantan for instance, up to 8 per cent7 of its 3.77 ...
Indonesia has grand plans for Jakarta—a new capital on Borneo, a giant bird-shaped sea wall to protect Jakarta itself—but they don’t solve the underlying problem.
The concerns were raised following President Joko Widodo’s Monday announcement on the relocation of the Indonesian capital to an area straddling the districts of North Penajam Paser and Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan. He was apprehensive of history repeating itself, particularly if the government w...
D Liu - 《Environmental History》 被引量: 174发表: 2001年 Impacts of industrial timber plantations in Indonesia: An analysis of rural populations' perceptions in Sumatra, Kalimantan and Java | Center for International Forestry Research These results contrast with the heavy focus around acacia plantati...
judge, the role reflecting readers' stance when they express their evaluations of specific circumstances (in this context, it pertains to their opinions on the President of Indonesia's decision to relocate the capital city from Jakarta to the newly designatedIbu Kota Nusantara(IKN) on Kalimantan Is...
talks to the media in the new capital city Nusantara in Penajam Paser Utara, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Monday, July 29, 2024. Widodo started work Monday from the new presidential palace in his country's ambitious new capital Nusantara, where he intends to...
Locally connected means that Nusantara will change the face of the Indonesian economy to become more inclusive through a three-cities strategy (Nusantara, Balikpapan, and Samarinda) as well as collaboration with other cities/ regencies in East Kalimantan Province as an economic driver in the province...
(300 metres). Structural trends are not as well-defined as onadjacentislands, although a broad mountain system (which includes Mount Kinabalu) runs roughly from northeast to southwest.Kalimantan, whichconstitutesabout three-fourths of the island, consists mostly of undulating lowlands, with alluvial ...
Jakarta - Colonial, Capital, Megacity: The first settlements on the site of Jakarta were established at the mouth of the Ciliwung, perhaps as early as the 5th century ad. The city’s official history, however, starts in 1527, when the sultan of Bantam de
Java, island of Indonesia lying southeast of Malaysia and Sumatra, south of Borneo (Kalimantan), and west of Bali. Java is home to roughly half of Indonesia’s population and dominates the country politically and economically. The capital of Java and of the country is Jakarta (formerly Batavia...