Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Nissan, expects the Indonesian economy to grow by 10% by 2013, comparing our ASEAN neighbour to the likes of Russia and Brazil. The Japanese automaker plans to ride the boom, and is said to have invested $20 million in its Indonesian assembly plant to double production for the market.
“We’ll start the expansion this year to boost production capacity to 100,000 cars from 50,000 currently. Today we have about 5% market share. This is far below our potential,” Ghosn said in Jakarta. The charismatic Renault-Nissan boss also revealed that Nissan will double its number of sales outlets in the country to more than 80.
Indonesia is currently seeking billions in foreign investment to help it achieve 7% growth by 2014, but is being held back by various red tape issues and lack of adequate basic infrastructure. “Indonesia can become an export force on the condition that the country improves its infrastructure, but most of the capacity that we will be building is mainly for Indonesian needs,” Ghosn said.
Current models available in Indonesia include the X-Trail, Grand Livina, Frontier, Serena and the Teana. In November the Japanese company will be launching the Nissan March which will be a competitor to the Honda Jazz and Toyota Yaris.
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We lost Ford and Mazda to Thailand. Its probably a matter of time for Nissan to leave for Indonesia. If one day, an auto maker shifts to, or prefers Singapore to our country, ..well I don’t know what to say if that happens.
Our NAP is killing the industry. Shame on you Proton.
Totally agree.
its related to cheap labour la deyyyy
Not really… Malaysia have been always a better choice as we have better communication & working skills compare to them. The only thing that chase them away is the unfriendly policies (NAP, AP, Undertable $$, 30% share..) which sides the local car maker.. Before this, we have a few China & European car maker want to come in to invest but who turn them down?
Later we all will be out of job.
Please Vote wisely in the next election
A living proof of NAp failure.
Hmmm…. does he has hints of Rowan Atkinson (Mr.Bean)??? :p
you r rite hehe
tau xpe
Yes, with more Asean made cars…Hopefully the prices of cars will go down due to the competition…
I guess Malaysia needs to do something to attract more foreign investors…
If we don’t wake up from our NAP, we’ll be exporting workers to Indonesia soon.
;-)
export back aa… they are too many here..
Now even Malaysian maids can be found in Australia…
All the investors will shut down their plant when economy going bad someday. so we cannot so much relying on foreign investor..we have to build & strengthen our domestic economic at any cost.
totally agree with you, mahathir is right on the path of the country. the country must have strong champion which can take on the world – like petronas. the rest of the GLCs only rely on government contracts.
problem is, most of the years in proton’s life being lead by somebody who has no business sense (read Tengku Mahaleel). he only wants to build sports car. Do you all remember last time, he even had the audacity to compare the Waja to the likes of BMW and Mercedes? And Savvy must have that bright orange tachometer to appeal to young drivers? I mean, is proton so dumb to create a totally new model for a niche market?
My only fond memory of Waja 1.8 renault engine is that when driving, the engine suddenly dies. and no spare part replacement currently in proton’s warehouse all over the country. can you believe that considering that the model is still being sold?
This is what happens when you have a CEO who ran the factory and marketing department at the same time. we have the biggest market for sedan for South East Asia and yet we are unable to fend off competition from the Japs, even Koreans build better cars these days. too much time given to proton actually, they SERIOUSLY need to catch up. We want to see more cars like Chevrolet Cruze which has a global presence.
I see some ray of light in the form of current CEO. At least he tries to make sure that Lotus isn’t sucking blood out of Proton. Lotus must do engineering work for Proton full-time, not some small projects by other manufacturers. Every model life cycle must not go beyond 8 years, that’s too long and it would just bring the value of the model down. And we don’t want another facelift of Perdana which an Alfa Romeo face. For the people to support Proton, they must prove that they are worth supporting.
I say all these because I love proton, mahathir left behind a good legacy, but how do we manage it?
hahaha…sorry man, but i think your logic is totally at messed. I mean we should promote local brand, but at all cost? I mean, this is the problem that cause Proton sucks until to day since do not meet the competition and improve, and abusing NAP.
If economic is down and no one buy car and investor move away, what make the sense that proton can survive? oh ya, forgotten, thats what all cronies wants. The money from Government regardless the company is making money or not. That is the whole problem..
Not learning how to fish, but looking the fish to be given.
That is NAP.
I just want all the Japanese Superbikers model to be local assemble here…that’s all..
That’s ridic… wait… oh… I think I know what you mean… ;)
But then, maybe not ;)
Nissan to double capacity in Indonesia. Comparatively to say that Indonesia is enjoying TWICE foreign direct investment (fdi) from Nissan alone (not to mention other car manufacturers). Indonesia’s car industry is thriving.
Contrarily in Malaysia, the government will double-triple taxing local consumers via NAP and AP and over protection of Proton to generate the same amount of investment. This in turn retards our car industry growth.
“Pampering one child is NOT the same taking care of the whole family”.
Does anyone know when Indonesia or our Tan Chong Motor will assemble the New Serena? Now its selling for Rp 575 million [about RM 195K] for the CBU 2010 Serena here in Jakarta
Hope that MITI is aware of what is going on in the motoring industry.
We currently have “world class assembly plants and infrastructure but
investors would rather build their own plant. We don’t want out
Tg Malim plant becoming a white elephant.
One can never survive doing it alone. JV’s and synergies with other
motoring co’s is the way forward.
While every country is trying to increase its FDI by offering attractive
and competitive incentives, we seem a little laid back and prefer
to be restrictive. Even maintaining current investors seems to be a problem
with investors prefering to downsize and relocating elsewhere.
“Houston we have a problem !!”
Another slap in the government’s face. Ouch. We’re supposed to be the best and the so-called leader of ASEAN (Singapore notwithstanding), why are we ending up this way? Or is it that we’re the best…. 20 years ago?
Yeah… 20 years ago.
Then we got complacent in out comfort zone. Other countries have caught up and leap frog us. While we’re still stuck with 20-year-old policies, 20-year-old strategies, 20-year-old bad habits, 20-year-old design, 20-year-old technologies, 20-year-old mentalities …..
Sad. Yes. :-(
SAD, This what happen when u don’t want to admit that proton’s make cars for local market only.Think how,not why can’t compete with korean cars.( how to jv with other manufacturer) instead of why they opt not to jv.