In one of his last acts as serving Indonesian president Joko Widodo this week officially broke ground on three projects by foreign investors at the from-scratch new capital, Nusantara, on the island of Borneo.

Indonesia plans to impose a moratorium on new-build hotels, villas and nightclubs in some areas of the popular resort island of Bali to tackle over-development, Reuters reports.

Indonesia’s outgoing president Joko Widodo started working this week from the country’s unfinished new capital “Nusantara” on the island of Borneo, 1,200km away from the rest of his government in…

Vietnamese EV-maker VinFast has broken ground on a $200m factory in Subang in West Java. The plant, which will have a maximum capacity of 50,000 vehicles a year, will contain…

The head of the government authority responsible for building Indonesia’s new capital city on the island of Borneo has resigned along with his deputy two months before a scheduled relocation,…

Construction students from Indonesia’s Universitas Indonesia have won the Chartered Institute of Building’s coveted Global Student Challenge for the second year in a row.

L&T Construction has won a rail systems contract worth at least $120.7m to fit out the Jakarta Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Phase 2A extension project through its Japanese partner, Sojitz…

Next week’s presidential election in Indonesia on 14 February has introduced a note of suspense over Nusantara, the country’s new capital under construction in the forests of East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo.

DP World and Indonesian conglomerate Maspion Group have begun building a new container terminal in Gresik, East Java. The joint venture DP World Maspion East Java will operate the terminal…

Indonesian president Joko Widodo has inaugurated a new light rail system connecting central Jakarta with the neighbouring cities of Depok and Bekasi.

A consortium of Indonesian companies led by property and construction group Agung Sedayu broke ground yesterday on the first private sector development in Indonesia’s new capital of Nusantara in East Kalimanatan, Borneo Island, Jakarta Post reports.

President Joko Widodo of Indonesia has pledged to fix the Greater Jakarta Light Rail Transit line after technical issues came to light following its inauguration on Monday 28 August. Local…

Indonesia’s parliamentary budget committee approved an extra $1bn last week to hasten work on the country’s planned new capital city, “Nusantara”, in East Kalimantan province on Borneo island, Reuters reports.…

A team of four construction students from Universitas Indonesia have won the Chartered Institute of Building’s (CIOB) coveted Global Student Challenge. They fought off competition from nine other teams in…

The governments of China and India have agreed to a budget increase of $1.2bn to complete the China-financed high-speed railway running between the Indonesian capital Jakarta and its third largest…

Indonesia plans to start building 184 residential towers in this year’s second quarter to house 14,500 civil servants at the new capital, called Nusantara, it is building in the forests…