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Tax payments, Tasmanian whisky and a jungle capital on ABC News In-depth

The channel's weekly slate pairs domestic financial pressures with Tim Swanston's visit to Indonesia's vast new government city.

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Inside the $45 billion megacity trying to become the new capital of Indonesia | ABC News

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1:40Wide, quiet highways and modern government buildings emerge from the forest at Nusantara.
3:29Around 10,000 people live in the city center, with large office complexes remaining vacant.
4:02Authority employee Ranty Wiyati describes the appeal of quiet living and drinkable tap water.
7:13The report explains how President Prabowo Subianto's changed priorities have sharply reduced the city's budget.
10:02Authority deputy director Dr. Alimuddin argues that commercial hesitation is normal and government backing remains.

A credit card ban and a whisky downturn might seem like modest subjects beside a new capital rising from Borneo's forests. Together, though, they give ABC News In-depth's week a clear thread: ambitious plans meeting financial reality.

The Indonesia report was comfortably the most-watched of the week's uploads, reaching about 680,000 views. Tim Swanston finds wide highways with little traffic and government buildings awaiting occupants, but also a resident unwilling to dismiss Nusantara as a ghost city. Capital Authority employee Ranty Wiyati values its quiet lifestyle and drinkable tap water. That lived-in perspective complicates the picture of a project facing sharply reduced funding.

Back in Australia, David Speers' Insiders interview brings a concrete acknowledgment from Assistant Treasurer Daniel Mulino: the government knew months earlier that the tax office was considering banning credit card payments. It is the channel's next most active upload right now, followed by Adam Langenberg's report on Tasmanian distilleries facing rising costs and falling demand.

Sarah Ferguson also brings former Labor leader Bill Shorten and former Liberal minister Christopher Pyne together to discuss political disruption. A separate Shorten excerpt borrows the spirit of Darryl Kerrigan, the stubborn suburban patriarch from The Castle, for his response to the Greens' ambitions.

ABC News In-depth added roughly 10,000 subscribers over the week. Across its fifteen uploads, the strongest fresh interest belongs to Nusantara, while the newer Insiders and whisky reports keep the focus close to Australian household and business concerns.

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