Capital Blunder
The government’s hasty plan to move the nation’s capital to East Kalimantan is not solving anything.
Tempo
September 2, 2019
PRESIDENT Joko Widodo must stop his plan to move the nation’s capital. The series of reasons that he gave when announcing East Kalimantan as the prospective location for the new capital only showed that there is no need to implement this proposal. This move could become Jokowi’s biggest blunder of his second term.
So far, the plan to relocate the capital gives the impression of not being transparent. The selection of North Penajam Pa
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