Latest / Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald
Indonesia has high speed rail. How come Australia can't get there?
Indonesia's 'WHOOSH' train does exactly that. The high speed link from Jakarta to Bandung used to take three to four hours, now it's a 35 minute journey, peaking at speeds of 350 km/hour.
It's a remarkable piece of high tech infrastructure, but it's also been the subject of corruption investigations and questions over debt to China.
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