Heavy Trails

Amid always late and insufficient subsidies, Indonesias railway system is hurting.

October 10, 2006

LIVING in East Depok and working in the Senayan area of Jakarta forces Bambang Widjojanto to spend most of his time on the road. In the morning, immediately he steps out of his complex on his way to the officelocated 50 kilometers awayhe is confronted by streets chock-full of cars. It may take more than two hours by car, he said. The same goes for afternoons.

Exhausted by such situation, the lawyer who was formerly Director of the Indonesian Legal

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