Economics
Indonesia May Be Next Asian Country to Spurn China in Election
- Prabowo vows to review $6 billion high-speed rail project
- Jokowi’s dilemma: Embrace China or fail to fund infrastructure
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Across vast tea plantations that sit atop the rolling hills separating two of Indonesia’s largest cities, excavators dig out a series of giant tunnels for the country’s first high-speed rail line.
The $6 billion project linking the capital Jakarta with Bandung some 150 kilometers (93 miles) away is expected to cut the travel time between them to about 40 minutes. The journey now takes about four hours on a road clogged with trucks packed to the brim, and it can easily double when the wet season brings daily downpours.