JAKARTA -- Indonesia's state-owned enterprises minister had a joke ready when she arrived late to an infrastructure conference in September. "The traffic jams are getting worse because we are building so many projects," Rini Soemarno told the audience.
Traffic crawls next to a construction site for a commuter line in Jakarta. (Antara Foto)
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