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    Indonesia's capital move Indonesia is building a new capital from scratch — no matter the environmental impact

    by David Pierson, Los Angeles Times Sep 24, 2019 5 minutes

    EAST KALIMANTAN, Indonesia - A tower inside the Samboja Lestari Orangutan Sanctuary offers a panorama of more than 4,000 acres of dense tropical forest packed with slender sengon trees that poke out of the jungle canopy over a smattering of sugar palm, bamboo and rambutan trees bursting with bright red fruit.

    Rapid deforestation in this rugged corner of Borneo has diminished vistas such as these, shrinking habitats for wildlife including orangutans, Sumatran rhinos and proboscis monkeys - named for their pendulous noses - animals that can rarely be found elsewhere in the world.

    The culprits behind the shrinking forests have long been the same: the coal, palm oil and timber industries, to name a few. But the region is now facing something entirely unexpected. Indonesia's president has picked the remote province of East Kalimantan to build a new capital from scratch to

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