(Kuala Lumpur, 26th) Indonesia's Whoosh High-Speed Rail (also known as the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Rail) has recently sparked a wave of heated discussions on local social media. The reason comes from a set of data recently released by the Indonesian authorities: from January to March this year, among the foreign passengers carried by this high-speed rail, passengers from Malaysia ranked first, surpassing other countries, which has attracted a lot of attention and discussion.
According to data from Indonesia Railways (Persero), the Whoosh high-speed rail had 87,077 foreign passengers from January to March this year, an increase of 79.9% from 48,391 passengers in the same period last year.
Indonesian officials believe that the increase in the number of foreign passengers shows that Whoosh high-speed rail is not only popular among the domestic community in Indonesia, but has also become the main choice for foreign tourists visiting Indonesia.
Indonesia's Whoosh High-Speed Railway is the first high-speed railway in Southeast Asia.
The increase in the number of foreign tourists also shows that Indonesia's tourism promotion strategy of combining technological facilities and convenient transportation has begun to yield positive results.
The data also showed that the country with the most foreign passengers came from Malaysia, followed by Singapore and China.
After the release of this data, domestic social media platforms sparked heated discussions on the high-speed rail issue. Some netizens mocked Whoosh for relying on Malaysians for support, but some netizens said that the people of our country chose to use Whoosh in Indonesia because they were disappointed with the cancellation of the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail.
However, some netizens said that if the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail had been built, our country would have had a high-speed rail system by now.
In addition, according to the latest official data in February this year, since its opening in 2023, the Whoosh high-speed rail has transported more than 8 million passengers, with an average daily passenger flow of 20,000, greatly activating the development of the economic belt along the Indonesian high-speed rail.
Indonesia's Whoosh High-Speed Railway is the first high-speed railway in Southeast Asia.
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