Sales Of New Electric Motors 108 Units, Moeldoko Reveals The Cause

Electric motor (Photo: dock. Antara)

JAKARTA - Presidential Chief of Staff (KSP) and Chair of the Indonesian Electric Vehicle Industry Association (Periklindo) Moeldoko revealed that to this day sales of electric motorcycles have only reached 108 units.

In fact, according to him, the government has provided relief by providing incentives of Rp. 7 million for people who will buy electric motorbikes.

"The growth in motorcycle purchases is still slow. Yesterday I chaired a meeting on Friday, there were only 108 motorcycles. Why was there relief being welcomed by the public. We are evaluating it," he said at the Green Economic Forum, Monday, May 22.

He added that the purchase of a low electric motorbike was due to the fact that there were still many people who did not know about the incentives provided by the government for the purchase of Battery-Based Electric Motor Vehicles (KBLBB) and Ministerial Regulations related to the Batu KBLBB issued.

He also assessed that the use of the Sisapira application had not been well socialized so that the public did not know how to access electric vehicles.

"There is an application called Sisapira which at any time wants to check the growth of the population of motorcycle purchases, especially how many and if you want to buy the requirements, it is there," continued Moeldoko.

The third cause, continued Moeldoko, is that this KBLBB incentive program has not become public consumption and has not been well socialized.

"We haven't talked about this anywhere so it's still big, wait and see," continued Moeldoko.

Muldoko continued, the concern of electric vehicle entrepreneurs is that there are still many dealers who are worried that the issue of restitution or reimbursement of incentives by the government will not be carried out quickly.

For this he admitted that his party had held a meeting with the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Menko Marves) Luhut Binsar Panjaitan regarding the restitution given.

"There are thoughts that develop if the restitution will take a year to collect it. Yesterday we closed it at will, for this restitution, if possible a month or two, why should it be a year. This is being evaluated," he explained.

As is known, the government has issued a policy of providing assistance for the purchase of two-wheeled electric vehicles, namely in the form of discounted prices of IDR 7 million for the purchase of one unit of two-wheeled electric vehicles. The assistance is intended for people who meet certain requirements. Namely, registered as KUR beneficiaries, micro business productive assistance, wage subsidy assistance, and recipients of electricity subsidies up to 900 VA.

Meanwhile, government assistance for four-wheeled electric vehicles is in the form of providing 10 percent VAT-DTP incentives.