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Indonesia's rapid infrastructure drive takes deadly toll with serious accidents

Published Wed, Mar 7, 2018 · 09:50 PM

Jakarta

A STRING of fatal accidents is threatening to derail Indonesia's relentless infrastructure drive ahead of the Asian Games, a push seen as a key to revving up growth in South-east Asia's biggest economy.

President Joko Widodo - who is counting on the construction advance for his 2019 re-election bid - temporarily halted all elevated transportation projects, after a dozen major accidents killed five and injured dozens more in recent months.

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