Jokowi takes camping trip to site of new capital


President Joko Widodo took a camping trip to the country’s future capital, he said on social media, posing for photographs in a forest at the site of the new city.

The country is preparing to move its capital from overcrowded Jakarta to Nusantara, in a megaproject that has come under criticism from environmentalists who warn it could damage ecosystems in the region.

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