To ensure the Jakarta-Bandung rail project is economically viable, President Joko Widodo has ordered the track be extended to Surabaya, a city about 760 km (472 miles) east of Jakarta, and for Japanese investors to be brought in.
JAKARTA: Indonesia plans to extend a high-speed rail project being built with China and bring in Japanese investors, as part of 89 priority projects slated for Southeast Asia's biggest economy over four years, a minister said on Friday.
The extension of the $6 billion Jakarta-Bandung rail project is among 1,422 trillion rupiah ($97.30 billion) of national strategic projects for the 2020-2024 period, Chief Economic Affairs Minister Airlangga Hartarto said.
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