South-east Asia's first high speed rail project in Indonesia is 64% completed
JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Railway developer PT Kereta Cepat Indonesia China (KCIC) said it has completed 63.9 per cent of construction on the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail (HSR), overcoming delays due to the coronavirus pandemic. The tunnel drilling for South-east Asia's first HSR project has reached 74.94 per cent completion, KCIC president director Chandra Dwiputra in a statement on Tuesday (Dec 15). KCIC has wrapped up the drilling of a tunnel, called Tunnel 1, which spans 1.8km and is located under the Jakarta-Cikampek toll road that connects Jakarta with Bekasi i...