JAKARTA (Bloomberg): Indonesia’s ambitious project to build a new capital city is attracting a local billionaire: Lippo Group’s John Riady (pic) is seeking new projects to ride out of the pandemic slump.
The country that stretches across the world’s largest archipelago is building the new city from scratch on a piece of land in Borneo, some 1,400km (870 miles) northeast of the current capital Jakarta.
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