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Commercial operations for the high-speed rail (HSR) service between Jakarta and Bandung kicked off on Tuesday with a launch ceremony for the Indonesian-Chinese project coinciding with Jokowi’s visit to the Belt and Road Summit in Beijing.
China is also willing to boost imports of Indonesia's agricultural and fishery products, Xi said in a meeting with Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on the sidelines of the Belt and Road Forum, according to state media China Central Television.
The SOEs minister says the investment agreements signed thus far are part of the US$29 million in potential deals expected from the President's working visit to Beijing, which includes the Belt and Road Forum from Oct. 16 to 18.
Taliban officials and ministers have at times travelled to regional meetings, mostly those focussed on Afghanistan, but the Belt and Road Forum is among the highest-profile multilateral summits it has been invited to attend.
The 142-kilometre (88.23-mile) railway, one of President Jokowi's flagship infrastructure projects and part of China's Belt and Road Initiative, has faced problems ranging from land procurement issues, pandemic-related delays and ballooning costs.
Few nations have been transformed as radically by China’s Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI, as Laos. The US$5.9 billion China-Laos railway has pushed the small, Southeast Asian country closer to its dream of being land-linked, not land-locked.
