Sales Of Moving Vehicles Makes You Work, Jokowi Asks Automotive Entrepreneurs To Export

President Jokowi (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) appreciates the achievement of the automotive industry in the rapid sales of vehicles. However, this has caused congestion in various big cities.

This was conveyed when he opened the 2023 Indonesian International Motor Show (IIMS) automotive exhibition at JIExpo Kemayoran, Jakarta, on Thursday, February 16.

Jokowi complained about the congestion that occurred everywhere, one of which was Jakarta. In fact, according to Jokowi, traffic jams not only occur in the capital city, but in Bandung to Medan.

Jokowi assessed that this was due to the rapid increase in car and motorcycle sales in 2022. He explained that 1.04 million cars were sold last year, while for motorcycles there were 5.2 million sales.

"As a result, we are currently jammed everywhere, Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung is jammed, because car sales have reached 1,048,000 and motorbikes are more than five million," said President Jokowi.

According to Jokowi, the trend of selling cars and motorcycles in Indonesia is very high, especially last year.

"Sales for cars reached 1.04 million and motorcycles were 5.2 million. This is a very large number," he said.

Therefore, he invites the entire automotive industry to be more export-oriented. This is a solution so as not to get stuck.

"In order not to get jammed, I invite the entire automotive industry to be more export-oriented," he said.

He said the increase in vehicle exports was quite sharp in 2021 to 2022. Where, from around 300 thousand units rose to almost 600 thousand units.

He also appreciated the automotive industry for increasing exports by 100 percent. However, this achievement is still inferior to Thailand.

"So I want to push again, so that exports are higher and increase every year," he said.

Even so, Jokowi continued, the trend of vehicle sales has shown that the automotive industry in Indonesia has a positive growth outlook.

"Our automotive industry has very bright prospects, it grows very significantly every year. In 2022, it will grow 18 percent, an increase from the previous year," he said.

For your information, IIMS 2023 was held by Dyandra Promosindo by presenting 45 automotive brands.

The four-wheeled brands that also attended were Astra Daihatsu, BMW, Chery, DFSK, Honda, Hyundai, Mitsubishi, MG, Subaru, Suzuki, Toyota and Wuling to Indomobil Group presenting five brands, namely Audi, Citroen, KIA, Nissan, and Volkswagen (VW).

Furthermore, the two-wheeled brands that attended were Astra Honda Motor, Benelli-Keeway, Energica, Husqvarna, Italjet, KTM, Niu, Royal Alloy, Royal Enfield and Yamaha. Meanwhile, the brand of two-wheeled electric vehicles was followed by Gelis, Ion Mobility, Rakata, Selis and Smartby.