This series of Citiestalk discussed a plan to develop ten new cities and metropolitan areas, as well as the discourse on moving the capital city. Through Indonesia’s Ministry of National Development Planning, Indonesia’s government planned to develop ten areas/regions into a new metropolitan area to decrease the regional disparity. The talks presented Bernardus Djonoputro as the moderator and Indonesian and International experts with various backgrounds.

The discussion summarized that many financing alternatives encourage accelerating new city development. In this session, Tory Damantoro emphasized the importance of establishing a dedicated delivery unit to manage the new capital’s development in an agile and integrated manner, ensuring revenue opportunities can be identified, secured, and implemented more effectively than through conventional institutional approaches.