December 18, 2018 4:45 PM

JAKARTA – Earlier this year, as Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe was considering teaming up with arch rival China to help deliver infrastructure projects under the country’s US$1 trillion Belt Road Initiative (BRI), his ambassador to Indonesia was overseeing the finishing touches of an early study to construct a railway between Jakarta and the country’s second city, Surabaya.

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