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Indonesian President Joko Widodo attended the ground-breaking ceremony Wednesday for the second train line of Jakarta’s mass rapid transit system, financed by a loan from Japan of about 140.7 billion yen ($990 million). The MRT railway — the first phase of which, a 15.7-kilometer stretch on the North-South Line, opened in 2019 — “has changed the face of Jakarta and Indonesia,” the president popularly known as Jokowi, said during the ceremony at the site for Thamrin Station of the new East-West Line. The North-South Line has carried about 120 million passengers since its opening, he said. The…

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