{"id":529635,"date":"2022-10-14T10:45:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T05:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=529635"},"modified":"2022-10-14T11:38:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T06:08:29","slug":"indonesia-gears-up-to-start-its-first-high-speed-rail-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indonesia-gears-up-to-start-its-first-high-speed-rail-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia gears up to start its first high-speed rail line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesia is preparing to start Southeast Asia\u2019s first high-speed rail service that will cut travel time between two cities from the current three hours to about 40 minutes. <\/p>\n<p>The railway line, which connects Indonesia\u2019s capital Jakarta and Bandung, the heavily populated capital of West Java province, is part of China\u2019s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative. As the Jakarta-Bandung portion of the rail project approached 90% completion, Indonesia\u2019s President Joko Widodo on Thursday visited Bandung\u2019s Tegalluar station \u2014 one of the railway\u2019s four stations \u2014 where eight train cars and an inspection train that arrived from China in early September were parked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesia is preparing to start Southeast Asia\u2019s first high-speed rail service that will cut travel time between two cities from the current three hours to about 40 minutes. The railway line, which connects Indonesia\u2019s capital Jakarta and Bandung, the heavily populated capital of West Java province, is part of China\u2019s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative. As the Jakarta-Bandung portion of the rail project approached 90% completion, Indonesia\u2019s President Joko Widodo on Thursday visited Bandung\u2019s Tegalluar station \u2014 one of the railway\u2019s four stations \u2014 where eight train cars and an inspection train that arrived from China in early September were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}