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 (RM24.4bil) project linking the capital Jakarta with Bandung some 150km away is expected to cut the travel time between them to about 40 minutes.
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