Basuki's Story of Living in IKN: Plenty of Culinary Options to Keeping Five Birds

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - The Head of the Nusantara Capital Authority (IKN) Basuki Hadimuljono revealed that he has been living in IKN and feels comfortable in the new capital. “Top. Here, the deputy, so I said I no longer have Fridays off, ‘Sir, tomorrow I’ll ask permission to go back to Jakarta’, no more. To Jakarta, going to Jakarta. So tomorrow I’ll go back to IKN to sort out my heart and mind,” Basuki said at the Parliamentary Complex, Jakarta, on Monday (30/3/2026). Basuki revealed that IKN now has a variety of culinary options. “Last year when I moved there during Ramadan, it was still using boxes. Now there’s Bebek Sunan. There’s Bakso Lek No. Wow, there are many already, there are many vendors,” he said. Feeling so comfortable living in IKN, Basuki now keeps five birds. “Oh yes, I myself have five birds. Cucak rawo birds, kacer birds,” revealed the former Minister of Public Works and People’s Housing. Several housing and government office constructions, such as the DPR Building and the Supreme Court (MA), are also priorities. “This is just recent land clearing, yes, maybe after Eid it will be accelerated. The current ones have the field preparations done, land clearing done, now about to start the foundations,” said Basuki.