JAKARTA - Indonesia is dangling long-term lease concessions in the prime central district in Jakarta – where ministries and government agencies are located – to private investors as a sweetener if they participate in developing
“Jakarta will remain crowded and good for business. Everywhere else when a country moved its administrative capital, the original capital city got even more crowded because it became a purely trade and metropolitan city. Look at KL, which today has more crowds and jams,” Mr Totok told The Straits Times.
When contacted by the Straits Times, Ms Merry Morfosa, head of the Jakarta administration department in charge of spatial planning, declined to give details on possible concession terms, saying they for the national government to decide. On Monday, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Malaysia will take a positive approach and seek ways so that the development in Nusantara would also benefit Malaysia, especially Sabah and Sarawak which are nearer to the proposed capital.