Travel Time: Project and Indonesia

travel time: The project in question is the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway that Indonesia signed up for in 2015 as part of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative BRI . Despite controversies, the project, part of President Joko Widodo's ambition to upgrade Indonesia's lagging infrastructure, will cut travel time between the two cities in western Java from more than four hours to about 40 minutes, if completed, according to Global Times China. Rabble-rousing rhetoric that fuels suspicion about the prospect of the project is irresponsible and is aimed at driving a wedge in China-Indonesia relations. Bloomberg said, Indonesia may be the next Asian country to spurn China in elections, citing concerns over transparency of a China-invested infrastructure project as well as promises made by Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto in January to review the project and also to get a fairer trade deal with Beijing. Subianto pledged to review the BRI project. China's growing economic clout has increasingly become a key election topic in Asia and around the world. But it's too early to say whether he could be elected or whether he would really dump it if elected. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.