Indonesia officially abolished the status of Jakarta as the capital and made it a special administrative region

Indonesia's parliament passed a bill on Tuesday to formally remove Jakarta's status as the capital and make it a special administrative region.

According to Xinhua News Agency, Deputy Speaker of the Indonesian Parliament Kadir said after the plenary session of the parliament: "Jakarta's status is no longer the capital, but a special zone." We have moved the capital to Nusantara."

Interior Minister Karnavian says Jakarta will go through a transition from capital to special zone status. Although Jakarta will no longer be the capital, it will remain a centre of economic and cultural activity and will retain its strategic appeal and importance in national affairs.

Indonesia's new capital, Nusantara, is located in North Pena Jambasai district in East Kalimantan province and is still under construction. The Indonesian government plans to start moving civil servants to the new capital in early 2025.

In order to alleviate the difficulties faced by the development of the capital and promote the balanced development of the country, the Indonesian government announced in 2019 that the administrative capital would be moved from Jakarta to a forest hinterland in East Kalimantan province. The construction of the new capital, Nusantara, officially started in mid-2022 and will be developed in five phases, with construction scheduled to be completed in 2045 and the population expected to exceed 2 million upon completion.