Overturned train cars. Broken rail tracks. Collapsed bridges. Malfunctioning signals. Closed switches when a train is about to cross roads. Mysterious happenings blamed on dark acts by the enemy."

That is not a description of present-day conditions. It's a narration of the situation on the eve of the Japanese invasion, cited from the book Kereta Api Indonesia (Indonesian Railroads) by M. Gani, Ministry of Information, 1978. The preceding pa