Off the rails – Indonesia's Belt and Road rail mess
South-east Asia's first bullet train is half-way there, according to the Indonesian government. Others say the much-delayed $7.8 billion project, part of China's Belt and Road Initiative, should never have begun.
Sydney/Jakarta | Earlier this year, the Japanese International Co-operation Agency team working on a new rail link between Jakarta and Surabaya, the country's second-biggest city, was taken aback by a request from the Indonesian government.
Could JICA speak to the Chinese-backed venture behind another new line, the much-anticipated, high-speed link from the Indonesian capital to Bandung in West Java? Perhaps the two projects could be combined?
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