Mitsubishi to Produce MPVS Locally

Mitsubishi Motors announced plans to build a new automobile factory in Bekasi in May 2017. According to plan, the new factory will produce multi-purpose vehicles (MPV) with a production capacity of 160,000 units and will continue to develop until it reaches 240,000 units a year.

"We'll begin production in 2017 with a total investment of US$600 million (Rp7.2 trillion)," Mitsubishi CEO Osamu Masuko said at the Industry Ministry last week. He added that 20,000 of the Japanese corporation's total production in Indonesia will be exported to Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines. "The rest will be marketed in Indonesia," he said.

September 23, 2014