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NEW CAPITAL OF INDONESIA

Abandoning Destitute Jakarta, Moving To Plundered Borneo

Andre Vltchek

Mira Lubis

Badak Merah Semesta

New Capital of Indonesia:

Abandoning Destitute Jakarta,

Moving to Plundered Borneo

Copyright 2020 Andre Vltchek &

Mira Lubis

All rights reserved

Proofreader: Arthur Tewungwa

Cover photo: Andre Vltchek

Cover design: Rossie Indira

Layout: Rossie Indira

1st e-book edition, 2020

Published by PT. Badak Merah Semesta

http://badak-merah.weebly.com

email: badak.merah.press@gmail.com

ISBN: 978-623-93644-0-3

Map showing relocation of the new Indonesian capital to the island of Borneo

(Map: Caitlin Dempsey using Natural Earth Quick Start)

Contents

Compliments.........................................	vii
Introduction..........................................
Foreword ..............................................
Before 1965 Socialist Attempt To Build New Capital in Borneo...............
Why Moving The Capital Would Be Immoral Now........................................
In Tortured Borneo, New Capital Would Become Yet Another Deep Wound....................................................
About The Authors ............................

Compliments

Andre Vltchek tells us about a world that few know, even when they think they do. That is because he tells the truth, vividly, with a keen sense of history, and with a perceptive eye that sees past surfaces to reality

~ Noam Chomsky

In an age of formula media, Andre Vltcheks work is truly exceptional fiercely independent and bracing in its challenge to the echoes and lies of great power.

~ John Pilger

This extraordinary research into a hidden history, by Andre and Mira - is a masterpiece of sleuthing the archives and memories of people of this once great country, Indonesia. The story is far wider than the making of the new capital of Indonesia. It portrays the abject betrayal by the West of a new and bustling socialist country under President Sukarno (1945- 1967) an honest man who was seeking to use the riches of this huge archipelago for the benefit of his people.

The book describes with ardor and passion, like a vivid movie, the atrocious mass genocide committed by the west in 1965 to cut Indonesias bright future short. It is a story and a lesson for scholars and students how western neoliberal, neofascist economics destroy the very fabric and culture of people and nations with corruption and killing for profit. This book is a treasure that must revive the eclipsed history of Indonesia in libraries, universities, theaters and wherever culture is preserved.

~ Peter Koenig

Introduction

Indonesia is the future of the "developing" world directed by neo-liberal capitalism. All decisions are made for personal profits. Its capital city has none of the amenities that a people who take pride in their habitat and its culture normally provide. It is literally sinking into the ocean. So miserable has it become because of the government's indifference that the government plans to abandon it. The island of Borneo, not long ago hosting one of the world's great forests, has been deforested so that individuals may profit from palm plantations. It is chosen as the place to move a government in the service of capitalists.

None knows better than Andre Vltchek what this kind of exploitative "development" does to land and people all over the world. Authors of this book had a special care for Indonesia ever since the days when it was well governed by persons who cared for both its people and its land. Perhaps this report of the victory of neoliberal economics may serve as a warning of where the international financial interests are luring other peoples. May it awaken many to what the world's financial leaders envision for them.

John B. Cobb, Jr

American theologian, philosopher, and environmentalist. Author of many books including China and Ecological Civilization with Andre Vltchek

Foreword

J akarta, the capital of Indonesia, is sinking. Overdeveloped, dirty, lacking parks, public beaches and public spaces, it is arguably one of the most repulsive urban sprawls in the world. A monstrous monument to turbo-capitalism, or call it market fundamentalism.

There, office towers, luxury hotels and shopping malls rub shoulders with slums; miserable and overcrowded neighbor-hoods called kampungs .

It is one of the most depressing, desperate, polluted, dirtiest cities I have ever seen, and I have seen thousands of them, on all continents, in about 160 countries.

You cannot do much if you live in Jakarta. First of all, you cannot walk, as everything is grotesquely fragmented, and most of the sidewalks lead nowhere, connect nothing, and there are very few of them, anyway. Filthy scooters are everywhere, riding and even parking on the walkways. Eateries selling food that is health-hazardous are omnipresent, arrogantly blocking the way.

Culture? What culture? Few sub-standard museums, one or two usually empty auditoriums, and cinemas which only show the most intellectually deranged Hollywood and Bollywood films. If there is a gallery, hiding somewhere, it exhibits the most vulgar and primitive pop art.

For an outsider, it is purgatory. Although many locals have been conditioned not to see the reality, and not to compare.

The city is literally going under. It is overdeveloped, its sanitation as well as water supply is at the level of some of the poorest capitals in Africa. The canals and river are clogged by garbage. In a couple of decades, some experts say, at least one third of the urban area could end up under water. All of this is addressed in the second chapter of this book.

In a normal, rational society, a national emergency would have been declared. The country would have started an intensive rescue operation, trying to save both the capital, and all the other cities that are presently in various stages of decay and destruction, even collapse.

But not in Indonesia! Here, the solution is simple: grab all that you can, pack your boxes and move your ineptness to Borneo, the third biggest island in the world, which has already been thoroughly plundered, robbed of its soul and culture, inhabited by trans-migrants, and stripped of all its beauty and wealth.

Although the Indonesian rulers have never built anything extraordinary, anywhere on the territory of their country, they are now bragging that the new capital city will resemble Brasilia or Canberra, Dubai or Manhattan. The megalomaniac dreams would be simply laughable, if many Indonesian people werent once again fooled and blinded by the false promises of their government and oligarchs (which often are the same entity).

The Indonesian rulers President Joko Widodo and his entourage, to be precise have been looking for godfathers who would be willing to promote the project. They have managed to engage the monarchs from the Gulf as well as Tony Blair, who is always ready to back fascist concepts, even serving, for years, as an advisor to Rwandas murderous dictator, Paul Kagame (who has been doing to the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, what Jakarta has been doing to West Papua, and to some extent, Borneo).

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