Kota Nusantara, Feb. 7 -- Indonesia's Nusantara Capital City (IKN) Authority is working with a Dutch university consortium and a local Indonesian university to develop research on sustainable development education as the country builds its new capital, officials said on Saturday.

"This collaboration follows up on a memorandum of understanding on research into sustainable urban development and landscape-based management," said Myrna Asnawati Safitri, an official at the IKN Authority.

Speaking in Nusantara, Safitri said the authority has signed an MoU with the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus (LDE) Universities consortium from the Netherlands, which has since attracted strong interest from students, particularly master's candidates from various acade...