Indonesia's Island Development Plans Hampered

Rempang Island residents aren’t at all happy with the "eco-city" project

A plan to build a major new modern, e-wired, ecological metropolis with trillions of rupiah in investment funds on an idyllic tropical island across the strait from Singapore has run afoul of the local residents who like it the way it is, leaving the Indonesian government struggling to get the project underway. It is the second major all-new metropolis …