Indonesia remains Java-centric despite Jokowi's infrastructure campaign

An aerial photograph shows the development of a toll road connecting North Sumatra's capital of Medan to the provincial city of Tebing Tinggi. It is one of the national strategic projects being developed by the central government. - Antara

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): Despite the emergence of new urban centres on other islands, the Indonesian population of over 270 million people remains concentrated on Java as other islands still fail to catch up with the development achieved on the country’s most populous island.

Java had roughly 151.6 million people, or around 56.1 per cent of the population, as of September last year, according to Statistics Indonesia’s (BPS) latest population census.