The World’s Newest Purpose-Built Capital
It could be all the games of Civ and SimCity, but I find the real-life construction of dedicated national capitals to be fascinating, from BrasÃlia to Canberra to, oh, yeah, Washington, DC in my neck of the woods. Well, there’s a new kid on the purpose-built capital block, and its name is Nusantara. After over 70 years of Jakarta being Indonesia’s de facto and then de jure capital, the government made its first concrete steps…
