[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] …1,200 miles away to new mega-city Nusantara surrounded by jungle tribes, with 6,000 to be relocated from October
- Indonesia is ambitiously planning to move nearly 2mn people to a new city
- The forest metropolis aims to open to civil servants this year, completed by 2045
Seen from above, the prospective new capital of Indonesia is little more than a network of track roads and concrete exoskeletons today.
But the southeast Asian country, home to more than 275 million people, hopes desperately for Nusantara to be ready to house its first 6,000 residents by October, with Jakarta slowly dissolving into the sea 1,200 miles away.
With 40 per cent of the capital already below sea level, some 10.6 million people in the inner city (and 30 million in the wider area) could face displacement - and urgently need a longer-term solution.
But conservationists and local tribes, settled in the region for generations, warn the project is already starting to disrupt the natural order, cutting off access to water and endangering life.
Construction on the $35bn project of Nusantara began only in 2022, but the Indonesian government hopes it will be ready to open its doors within a matter of months - with completion to coincide with the centenary of independence in 2045.
Photos from this year, coupled with stunning CGI projections, show how the plan is taking hold as some 200,000 workers rally to usher in a new era for the archipelago. 
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