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A worker checks the plants used to decorate main lobby of Jakarta Convention Center, the venue for the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. Indonesian President Joko Widodo will welcome fellow Asian and world leaders with a captivating jungle scene of a two-story waterfall, wild orchids and even an orangutan perched up a tree. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

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An orangutan, chirping birds and a waterfall at ASEAN venue contrast to Jakarta's pollution outside
By EDNA TARIGAN AND NINIEK KARMINI - Associated Press
Tue,09/05/23-1:50AM , 62 Reads
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo will welcome fellow Asian and world leaders with a captivating jungle scene of a two-story waterfall, wild orchids and even an orangutan perched up a tree.
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A young boy plays as high rise buildings at the main business district are seen in the background, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. Indonesian parliament last week passed the state capital bill into law, giving green light to President Joko Widodo to start a $34 billion construction project this year to move the country's capital from the traffic-clogged, polluted and rapidly sinking Jakarta on the main island of Java to jungle-clad Borneo island amid public skepticism. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

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Indonesia's sinking, polluted capital is moving to new city
By EDNA TARIGAN AND NINIEK KARMINI - Associated Press
Tue,01/25/22-11:41PM , 57 Reads
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Jakarta is congested, polluted, prone to earthquakes and rapidly sinking into the Java Sea. Now the government is leaving, and moving the country's capital to the island of Borneo.
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