President Joko Widodo (left) is seen visiting the site of the new Indonesian capital near Sepaku in East Kalimantan in this file picture from Dec 17, 2019. - AFP
JAKARTA (Xinhua): Indonesian President Joko Widodo has chosen Nusantara, or archipelago in English, as the name of the new national capital to be built on the country's Kalimantan island, a senior government official said Monday (Jan 17).
"I just received a direct confirmation from the president on Friday (Jan 14) and he said the new capital is named Nusantara," the country's National Development Planning Minister Suharso Monoarfa said during a meeting with the special committee for the new capital city's establishment at the House of Representatives in Central Jakarta.
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