To put this into perspective, China's high-speed rail project in Indonesia connecting Jakarta and Bandung (a distance of 143 km) at a speed of 350 km/h was completed in just four months at total cost of $7.3 billion.
This line has seen an impressive number of passengers, with approximately 2 million people utilizing the service.
Indonesia's high speed rail system is called Waktu Hemat, Operasi Optimal, Sistem Hebat ('Timesaving, Optimal Operation, Outstanding System), or, in short, WHOOSH