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JAKARTA -- Indonesia's plans to build a trans-Java railway with aid from Japan have ballooned to include many upgrades, quadrupling the projected cost to around 100 trillion rupiah ($7.42 billion) and ...

JAKARTA -- Indonesia will ask Japan to contribute to a trans-Java railway that promises to more than halve the 10-hour travel time between the country's capital and Surabaya, its second largest city, ...

East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa (right) having a conversation with British Ambassador to Indonesia and Timor-Leste Dominic Jermey in Surabaya, East Java, on Friday (December 15, 2023).

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