Indonesia president begins working from new capital despite construction delays

Nusantara scheduled to host Independence Day celebrations instead of Jakarta next month but relocation plan has come into question

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has begun working from the presidential palace in the country's ambitious new administrative capital, the flagship project of his two terms in office but which has been plagued by delays.

The capital is due to move from traffic-clogged and sinking Jakarta to the planned city of Nusantara in East Kalimantan province on Borneo, but the $33bn project announced in 2019 is months - even years - behind schedule.