Nuuk international airport to the northeast of the town centre. Built in 1979, it is a hub for Air Greenland, which is also headquartered in Nuuk, and operates its technical base at the airport. There are flights inside Greenland and to Iceland. There is a decision to extend the runway so that there can be flights to European destinations like Denmark. As a result of the high cost of flying goods to Greenland, Nuuk and other towns in Greenland are connected to Denmark by cargo vessels which sail mainly from Aalborg during the warmer months after the winter ice has melted.
Indonesian future capital city proposal Jakarta by reviving the idea of relocating its political and administrative center elsewhere. In 2010, debate continued about the creation of a new capital city that would be separated from the urban, economic, and commercial center of the country. Former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono supported the idea to create a new political and administrative center of Indonesia, due to Jakarta's environmental and overpopulation problems. Bandung, the planned capital of the Dutch colonial era, was ruled out however, since the capital of West Java province itself is currently overpopulated and suffering ecological breakdown. In April 2017, the Joko Widodo administration contemplated