Jokowi’s pet project, Nusantara, faces an uncertain future, as he tries to cement his legacy before leaving office.
, popularly known as Jokowi, closes the curtains on his decade-long presidency, with his successor’s inauguration set for Oct. 20, he’s racing to raise the curtain on Nusantara, the country’s future capital and his pet project that has found itself in peril.
In his quest to prove that the development of Nusantara is going well, Jokowi spent his first night in the new capital in July—heas the cabinet meeting commenced on Aug. 12. “Not every country has the opportunity or ability to construct a new capital from zero.” Indonesian President Joko Widodo, right, talks with President-elect Prabowo Subianto, left, during an Independence Day at the presidential palace in Nusantara on Aug. 17, 2024.But what Jokowi’s successors could do, instead, is to drag out the construction until it is more politically convenient to give it up. “Nusantara could trundle along, and it could be quite slow,” Ian Wilson, a senior lecturer specializing in Indonesian politics at Australia’s Murdoch University, tells TIME.
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