Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Southeast Asia Brief. The Chinese-built and -funded high-speed railway line is struggling with debt ...

At Halim Station here in the Indonesian capital, the first official train of the Jakarta-Bandung High-speed Railway (HSR) glided away from the platform and picked up speed amid applause from its ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia is launching Southeast Asia’s first high-speed railway, a key project under China’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative that will cut travel time between the ...

PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Indonesian Railways Company, or KAI) is the country’s state-owned rail operator and they have been, if you will excuse the pun, on something of a roll lately. Like any company ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Indonesia’s transportation ministry laid out a litany of shortcomings in plans for a $5.5 billion China-funded high-speed railway, casting doubt on the project and spotlighting ...

JAKARTA (Xinhua): Since the launch of commercial operations in October 2023, the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway, locally known as Whoosh, has ushered in a new era of modern transportation for ...

Indonesia has introduced a new rail service from Jakarta city centre to its international airport, which is expected to decongest the city’s roads and highways and provide a faster transportation ...

China’s high-speed rail line for Indonesia – the first system of its kind for the large Southeast Asian country – has attracted enough passengers to expand its service since its launch half a year ago ...

A colonial-era railway that was once the lifeblood of Indonesia’s Aceh could paradoxically be revived in the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami, which obliterated the coastline of the province. Built in ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Indonesian officials are scrambling to find a solution to the latest dangerous trend in Jakarta: people who roam the city's railway tracks looking for free "electric therapy." As ...