Capital of Indonesia is sinking so looking for government as a deputy

The Indonesian president Either Widodo has decided to the nation's capital to change. For now, Jakarta is still the centre of the archipelago, but if Widodo may choose, shall be the capital will soon no longer even on the island of Java. He has some good reasons for that.

The biggest problem in Jakarta suffering is the low position. That behavior makes each year for a range of floods, and that in a city where more than ten million people. the

in Addition, sinks the city getting further and further away. Researchers predict that the city over a few decades, completely sunken. “By 2050 95 percent of North Jakarta under water”, this is the conclusion of Heri Andreas, a scientist at the university in Bandung (Indonesia).

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in Addition, there is the problem of overpopulation. In the capital live more than ten million people, the cities around Jakarta to count three times as many inhabitants. That caused huge traffic problems around the city. Problems that Indonesia hundred trillion Indonesian rupiah currency costs, or about 6.3 billion euros.

The Indonesian Minister of National Development and Planning Bambang Brodjonegoro that the government have no new location has been chosen, but tends to be a location on the east side of the archipelago. For the moment it is therefore not known when the new capital was officially recognised will be.