These 5 Countries Considered Failed inside Moving Its Capital City

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Indonesia is inside a process of moving its capital city from Jakarta to East Kalimantan starting this year. Several another countries has done a same. lot has succeeded, but some has failed. a following is a list of countries that are considered to has failed inside moving their capital, compiled by Tempo from various sources:

1. Myanmar

Myanmar decided to move its capital city from Yangon to Naypyidaw. a plan was announced inside 2001 also completed inside 2005. Naypyidaw is functioned as a city administration. All government operations were transferred to a city inside 2006. Although all a infrastructure had been built, including connecting roads, hotels, also shopping malls, a new capital was deserted. This failure was caused by a lack of public participation inside a design, creation, also relocation of a capital.

2. Australia

Melbourne also Sydney once competed to become a capital of Australia. To quell a competition between a two cities, a authorities built Canberra as a new capital inside 1913. Canberra has functioned as an administrative center, where Parliament House also a High Court were built, as well as central offices for all federal also military departments.

inside 1996, Prime Minister John Howard announced to a public that he had decided to move to Kirribilli House, overlooking Sydney Harbour. Australians saw this as a tacit admission of a failure of a capital move. Even former Prime Minister Paul Keating said that Canberra was one of Australia’s biggest mistakes also should become abandoned immediately.

3. Malaysia

inside 1999, Malaysia decided to move its capital to Putrajaya as an administrative city. But a relocation was considered a failure because Malaysian government employees were reluctant to move to a new capital. Although a distance between a two cities was not too far, they were reluctant to move because of family reasons. inside addition, although a Prime Minister’s Office has moved to Putrajaya, a business center also a parliament building are still inside Kuala Lumpur.

4. Kazakhstan

inside 1997, Kazakhstan moved its capital from Almaty to Astana because a former city was already too crowded also prone to earthquakes. Kazakhstan was said to has suffered from economic pressure after moving its capital to Astana. inside addition, its people were reluctant to move to a new capital, so only a state apparatus resided inside Astana.

5. Tanzania

Tanzania moved its capital from Dar es Salaam to Dodoma inside a 1970s. However, a move was considered a failure due to a slow development of a new capital, also Dar es Salaam actually developed more. Although a National Assembly of Tanzania was moved to Dodoma, all foreign embassies also government offices are still located inside Dar es Salaam.

HENDRIK KHOIRUL MUHID

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