Indonesia’s ambitious new capital faces unwelcome visitors: rats


JAKARTA/NUSANTARA (dpa): As thousands of holiday tourists poured into the site of Indonesia’s under-construction new capital during the Eid al-Fitr break, they were greeted not only by gleaming new government buildings rising from the forest, but by something less welcome: rats.

Videos of rodents darting between crowds in the country’s planned capital city on Borneo island quickly spread across Indonesian social media in recent days.

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