Indonesia continues to insist on the Summer Games in 2032. But according to Reuters, the country's political authorities have reportedly changed their plans. The Indonesian candidacy would no longer be supported by Jakarta, but by the future new capital of the country, to be built in the years to come on the island of Borneo. The pharaonic project of Indonesian President Joko Widodo (photo above, left, with Thomas Bach) was revealed last August. It consists of building a new capital, sustainable and connected, to replace Jakarta, whose future is threatened by water and overpopulation. Cost of the operation: $34 billion. The new Indonesian city would be placed at the heart of the system imagined by the authorities for a candidacy for the Summer Games in 2032. The project would have already unearthed two investors, two heavyweights in the Asian economy, SoftBank and Grab.
