“The grant support reflects international trust in the vision of developing IKN as a future city based on technology and sustainability,” said Head of the Nusantara Capital Authority (OIKN), Basuki Hadimuljono, in Nusantara on Thursday.
The project is supported through a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), aimed at promoting economic development in developing countries while strengthening trade and investment partnerships.
A cooperation contract for the technical assistance was signed at the OIKN office a day earlier, the authority said.
“This cooperation is a strategic step to strengthen planning of IKN’s integrated, investment-ready and implementable smart city blueprint, in order to accelerate Nusantara’s transformation into a smart, sustainable city that is attractive to global investors,” Hadimuljono stated.
The technical assistance will produce strategic and technical documents, including a Smart City Enterprise Architecture, procurement-ready request-for-proposal packages, a financial and investment model, an ESG-compliant framework, a capacity-building roadmap and an implementation phasing plan
OIKN said all of these components are designed to ensure that the implementation of IKN’s smart city is carried out in a structured and transparent manner, aligned with Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles, through a consortium-based project approach.
“Digital transformation is the main foundation of Nusantara’s development. Moreover, the vision is very clear, Nusantara must become a green, sustainable, and fundamentally smart city,” Hadimuljono added.
Meanwhile, Subhranshu Sekhar Das, an advisory board member of Frost & Sullivan America and project director of the initiative, outlined the long-term vision for developing a cognitive city.
“Nusantara has the opportunity to become more than just a smart city — it can evolve into a cognitive city. As the global knowledge industry transforms, cities must shift from static digital infrastructure toward adaptive intelligence systems,” he said.
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