{"id":150362,"date":"2026-04-26T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150362"},"modified":"2026-04-26T01:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:00:13","slug":"muddy-yet-clear-cut-how-chinese-investors-are-turning-jungle-into-indonesias-new-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150362","title":{"rendered":"Muddy yet clear-cut: How Chinese investors are turning jungle into Indonesia\u2019s new capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAfter an hour\u2019s drive through the jungle of Borneo, you reach more jungle. Your rental van from the Balikpapan city airport shakes precariously, navigating a partial bridge washout. A roadside sign admonishes against poaching the endangered sun bears.<br \/>\nBy hour three you\u2019ve arrived at Indonesia\u2019s new capital, which is due to start taking over from gridlocked, polluted and seaward-sinking Jakarta in 2028.<br \/>\nWelcome to Ibu Kota Nusantara, known locally as just Nusantara or IKN. Eventually, if all goes&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3350981\/muddy-yet-clear-cut-how-chinese-investors-are-turning-jungle-indonesias-new-capital?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAfter an hour\u2019s drive through the jungle of Borneo, you reach more jungle. Your rental van from the Balikpapan city airport shakes precariously, navigating&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150362"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}