Japan puzzled by Indonesia's policy shift over high-speed rail plan

Japan has been perplexed by Indonesia's abrupt policy shift on a high-speed railway project, now asking Tokyo to join in on the major infrastructure deal that it originally lost out to China."Normally, (Indonesia) should have talked to us first," a Japanese government official said, referring to Jakarta's new proposal to integrate the China-led project with a medium-speed railway plan involving Japanese assistance in what would amount to an extension of the high-speed project.Work on the approximately 140-kilometer high-speed rail service linking Jakarta and Bandung, the capital of West Jav…READ FULL ARTICLE