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Capital city determining itself leaves Indonesia for starters (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dili

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'capital city' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'determining itself leaves indonesia for starters' is the wordplay.
'for starters' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letters of 'determining itself leaves indonesia' is 'DILI'.

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