Nature & Wildlife

Nusantara calls itself a "city in the forest, with a forest in the city," and that's not just a slogan about the built-up area's own green space. Nusantara sits inside one of the richest biodiversity hotspots on Earth, the island of Borneo, and its own master plan is built around a network of protected forests, wetlands, and wildlife corridors that stretch well beyond the capital's own boundary. Some of these sites sit inside Nusantara's territory; several sit just outside it, in neighboring Balikpapan or Kutai Kartanegara, but are named as part of the same connected wildlife network in Nusantara's official Biodiversity Master Plan.

Between them, these seven sites are home to Bornean orangutans, proboscis monkeys, Irrawaddy dolphins, sun bears, and dozens of other species found nowhere else on Earth.