{"id":281824,"date":"2026-02-13T07:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T07:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/281824\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T07:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T07:25:12","slug":"indonesia-eyes-public-funds-to-pay-china-debt-for-high-speed-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/281824\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia eyes public funds to pay China debt for high-speed railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/transportation\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Transportation<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Troubled project suffered from rosy cost and ridership projections<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20260212N Indonesia shinkansen\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Ridership on the railway was projected at\u00a0over 18 million passengers per year, but only 6.2 million rode in 2025. (Photo by Tomoyoshi Oshikiri)<\/p>\n<p>TOMOYOSHI OSHIKIRI<\/p>\n<p>February 13, 2026 06:26 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">JAKARTA &#8212; The Indonesian government will repay debt to China related to a financially troubled high-speed railway with public funds, as Beijing&#8217;s initial claims that its proposal would result in no financial burden turned out to be overly optimistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transportation Troubled project suffered from rosy cost and ridership projections Ridership on the railway was projected at\u00a0over 18&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,607,5399,219,2753,36091,47360,5696,111,139,69,2744,3109,46868],"class_list":{"0":"post-281824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-debt","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-eyes","13":"tag-funds","14":"tag-high-speed","15":"tag-indonesia","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-pay","20":"tag-public","21":"tag-railway"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}