China-led Jakarta-Bandung Rail Project Stumbles

Far behind schedule, with costs climbing, a Belt and Road project is a headache

By: Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat and Yeta Purnama

The 150-km Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed ​​Train project was envisioned as China’s most important Belt and Road Initiative venture in Indonesia, if not Southeast Asia, a propaganda coup in which it pushed Japan aside after years of Nippon dawdling over details.

But it now is also at least three years behind sche…