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Jakarta, on the island of Java, is the capital of the modern state of Indonesia. In the early modern period, the city was known as Batavia,<ref>The name Batavia derives from the Batavi, a people who in the first centuries CE inhabited the lands that today comprise the Netherlands.</ref> and was the center of the Dutch East Indies, and the headquarters of the [[Dutch East India Company]] (VOC) operations in the region.
Jakarta, on the island of Java, is the capital of the modern state of Indonesia. In the early modern period, the city was known as Batavia,<ref>The name Batavia derives from the Batavi, a people who in the first centuries CE inhabited the lands that today comprise the Netherlands.</ref> and was the center of the Dutch East Indies, and the headquarters of the [[Dutch East India Company]] (VOC) operations in the region.
The city was home to roughly 10.37 million people in 2017, and has continued to grow. Extensive construction, extensive draining (use) of the underground aquifers, and other processes, however, have also caused the city to sink, in some places quite dramatically. Though seawalls and the like have been constructed, many areas of Jakarta have already become flooded and have been lost to the sea in the 2000s-2010s. In 2019, the Indonesian government announced a plan to designate or construct a new national capital within the next ten years.
==History==
The VOC established a foothold in the area around [[1610]], and made Batavia their headquarters in [[1619]].
The VOC established a foothold in the area around [[1610]], and made Batavia their headquarters in [[1619]].