Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) and partner PT Krama Yudha have held a ground-breaking ceremony for its new manufacturing facility in the GIIC Industrial Estate, Bekasi, Indonesia. Under the joint-venture, called Mitsubishi Motors Krama Yudha Indonesia, the next-gen Pajero Sport, the Colt L300 truck/van and a new small MPV are set to be built here from April 2017.
Through the new plant, Mitsubishi will expand its Indonesian business by switching from the current consignment production to in-house production, and some parts of the vehicles made here are set to be exported to other ASEAN nations. The plant will be Mitsubishi’s second-biggest in ASEAN after the main Laem Chabang, Thailand production hub.
“We will further contribute to the development of Indonesia’s automobile industry and society through employment of 3,000 staff at the new manufacturing plant, development of new part suppliers, promotion of local part procurement, technology transfer, and export,” said MMC chairman and CEO Osamu Masuko.
Situated 37 km east of Jakarta, the new Bekasi plant covers an area of 30 hectares, and has an estimated production capacity of 160,000 units a year. Mitsubishi also has a base in Santa Rosa, Philippines (former Ford factory site). The Japanese carmaker says it considers ASEAN its most important market.
What could this “new small MPV” be? Could it be something to go up against Indonesian-market stalwarts Toyota Avanza and Honda Mobilio?
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There gone another investment in our local motoring industry…. First, there was Thailand, now Indonesia, won’t be surprise later if Vietnam overtakes us. Damn BN !
Malaysians have already suffered so much. For 30 years, 30 million people suffer so much. We struggle paying for our high car prices all because of one man’s dream of benefiting his friends and relatives through the AP system and the government protecting Proton.
Malaysia was on its way to becoming the Detroit of Asia in the 90s. But the AP system cost us hundreds of billions in ringgit in investments from car companies who moved to Thailand and Indonesia. Car companies got fed up with Malaysia’s MITI for protecting Proton and telling other companies what to price their cars. They got sick and tired of the AP system and how genuine brands cannot get enough APs to import their cars in (like Mercedes, BMW and Honda).
They thought that if they set up their brands and plants in Malaysia, they knew they had to share the pool of APs with the cronies and they knew 90% of all APs go to the cronies. They all moved their operations to Thailand making it the AutoCity of the world.
Recently GM announced that they rolled out already 1 million cars from Thailand. Imagine if GM was in Malaysia and we taxed GM a mere RM10,000 per car. Calculate that with 1 million cars. Just from GM alone, we lost Billions in USD. Imagine what will the amount be from other car companies if they had set up in Malaysia?
Because of Mahathir and his AP system, as well as Proton, we lost hundreds of billion of ringgit in investment and trillions of ringgit from jobs lost. If Malaysia was the autocity of Asia, hundreds of thousands of jobs would have been created for Malaysians. We lost all that. Trillions of Ringgit and hundreds of thousands of jobs. Now, Thailand is benefiting from this trillions lost.
So, in summary, the 30 PEKEMA AP members and Proton have solely caused Malaysia to lose trillions in investments.
A word of caution to the idiots at MAI and the idiots in MITI, Malaysia might even lose existing companies who are already CKDing in Malaysia. BMW, Mercedes, Nissan, Honda and Toyota might even close up their plants in Malaysia to open up in Thailand.
This is so worrisome. Despite Thailand having an unstable economy with riots and bombing, no stable government, yet car companies still prefer Thailand to Malaysia. Makes us wonder…..what is wrong with Malaysia?
What is wrong with Malaysia? UMNO/BN and Corruption.
Ribu ribu tahniah to Dr MITI the founder bapa industri otomotif Indonesia.
May I know where is the 1st largest base in ASEAN?
MALAYSIA
isuzuki please do not behave like a primary school kid asking question with answer found on this page.
Just can’t take my eyes off that orange spray cleaner.
hahaha…eagle eyes!
pls, Dr M stop it
and also G resign too
Terimkasih Tun Mahthir!!! Bapa Pemodenan Industri Kereta Thailand dan sekarang Bapa Pemodenan Industri Kereta Indonesia!
Very soon, he will be known as Bapa Pemodenan Industri Kereta ASEAN!!!
the existence of small MPV in indonesia has been quite a while. go google Mitsubishi Kuda (similarly looking like a Pajero but a lot smaller in dimensions)
In other side Malaysia has a lot better transportation system compare to us in Indonesia. The blood sucking Japanese firms sold the car with the high margin here, then with the money they got from us, they bribe our government to not built good mass transportations.