Indonesia may be next Asian country to spurn China

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.