{"id":35258,"date":"2023-10-02T05:40:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T05:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=35258"},"modified":"2023-10-02T05:40:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T05:40:25","slug":"china-belt-and-road-indonesia-opens-whoosh-high-speed-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=35258","title":{"rendered":"China Belt and Road: Indonesia opens Whoosh high-speed railway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Indonesia has inaugurated its first high-speed railway, a $7.3bn (\u00a35.9) project backed by China under its Belt and Road Initiative.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Joko Widodo launched the service, which connects the capital Jakarta to Bandung, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/business-42889855\">a top economic hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The railway is named Whoosh, a Bahasa Indonesia acronym that translates to time-saving and reliable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Widodo has prioritised projects like Whoosh to ease the country&#8217;s severe traffic jams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The railway was originally scheduled to open in 2019 but was delayed due to land disputes, the Covid-19 pandemic and a $1.2bn (\u00a3984m) budget overrun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monday&#8217;s inauguration was pushed back from Sunday to accommodate Mr Jokowi&#8217;s schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: Indonesia has inaugurated its first high-speed railway, a $7.3bn (\u00a35.9) project backed by China under its Belt and Road Initiative. President Joko Widodo launched the service, which connects the capital Jakarta to Bandung, a top economic hub. The railway is named Whoosh, a Bahasa Indonesia acronym that translates to time-saving and reliable. Mr Widodo has prioritised projects like Whoosh to ease the country&#8217;s severe traffic jams. The railway was originally scheduled to open in 2019 but was delayed due to land disputes, the Covid-19 pandemic and a $1.2bn (\u00a3984m) budget overrun. Monday&#8217;s inauguration was pushed back from Sunday&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35260,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35258\/revisions\/35260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}