(29 Jul 2024)
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Nusantara, Indonesia – 29 July 2024
1. Exterior of Garuda Palace in Nusantara
2. Indonesian President, Joko Widodo, walking into media room at new Garuda Palace
3. Widodo talking to journalist and sitting down
4. Various of chairs
5. Widodo fixing chair position
6. TV screen reading “New Nusantara, Indonesia forward”
7. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Joko Widodo, Indonesian President:
"Today I have started receiving (officials) for meetings here, in the president’s office, but I can not take you (to see the meeting) because there are still a lot of workers around so we don’t want to disturb them. There are cleaning and finishing works happening and everything is in good progress.”
8. Main hall of the Garuda Palace
9. Worker cleaning floor
10. Workers entering main hall
11. Worker walking up stairs
12. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Joko Widodo, Indonesian President:
“We came here to check the latest progress of the IKN, especially the construction of the palace, I see everything is still in process."
13. Various of Widodo at viewing point at the Garuda Palace
14. Various of crane lifting materials
15. Wide of building under construction
16. Excavator lifting dirt
17. Various of building under construction
STORYLINE:
Indonesian President Joko Widodo, who intends to spend his last few months of his presidency in the country’s ambitious new capital, began to work on Monday from the new presidential palace there, despite the ongoing construction and lack of first-class facilities.
"Today I have started receiving (officials) for meetings here, in the president’s office," Widodo told reporters at the new presidential palace.
Authorities are racing to complete other key infrastructure projects in the future capital city of Nusantara, known also as IKN, in East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo, in order to host Independence Day celebrations next month.
Widodo said first on the agenda on Monday was a meeting with executives of the Nusantara Development Authority.
He is also scheduled to meet with provincial leaders of East Kalimantan.
To facilitate the move, the presidential secretariat is preparing all the necessary furniture for the presidential office, including tables, chairs, and lighting, while the supply of clean water, electricity and internet was "all running well," Widodo said.
When asked about the possibility of him holding the first Cabinet meeting in Nusantara, Widodo said that the cabinet secretariat would provide further details as some ministers were still on duty abroad and the construction of key projects was still ongoing.
AP video shot by Fadlan Syam
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