Indonesia may be next to spurn China in election

Indebted to China: Jokowi with his Malaysian counterpart Dr Mahathir. China has presented a dilemma for Jokowi from early in his presidency.

JAKARTA: 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 US$6bil project linking the capital Jakarta with Bandung some 150km away is expected to cut the travel time between them to about 40 minutes.