YAHYA Ombara is now well-versed with the meanings of train traffic signals. For example, he is able to tell the meaning of periuk gandar golong, “A sign that the brake should remain active when the train stops,” says the entrepreneur from Yogyakarta.

Trains is now Yahya’s new business. Following his appointment as commissioner of PT Kereta Api Indonesia (the state railway company) in late August 2007, he has been making a diligent inspecti