JAKARTA (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Indonesia’s first high-speed train linking capital Jakarta and the country’s fourth most populous city Bandung will begin operations in early October, with the aim of reducing huge economic losses caused by severe traffic jams in both cities, among other issues.
“We hope people shift from using private cars to using high speed rail, MRT, LRT... so traffic jams, pollution can be reduced. Economic losses due to jams in greater Jakarta and Bandung have reached over 100 trillion rupiah annually,” said President Joko Widodo after travelling on the high speed rail on Wednesday .
The train reached Padalarang station, just outside Bandung, capital of Indonesia’s most populous West Java province, in half an hour, compared to three hours by normal train. He was accompanied by several Cabinet ministers including State-Owned Enterprise Minister Erick Thohir and Cabinet secretary Pramono Anung, along with a select group of reporters, social media content creators and prominent TV personalities.
Construction of the 142km-long project began in 2016. It forms part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and makes Indonesia the first South-east Asian nation to have a high-speed railway.
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