When Mr William Sabandar, president director of MRT Jakarta, opened the company's head office on the rim off the Hotel Indonesia roundabout in 2016, one of his first acts was to set up a countdown clock in the lobby.
For Mr Sabandar, who oversaw disaster recovery on Nias island after the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, it was a move right out of his crisis management playbook: to create a sense of urgency among his staff and set them a deadline.
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