EPISODE · May 18, 2026 · 28 MIN
Indonesia has high speed rail. How come Australia can't get there?
from Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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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Indonesia has high speed rail. How come Australia can't get there?
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