Rooting for the Esemka

Students of a vocational school constructed a sports utility vehicle from scratch. It can only be ready for mass road use once it passes emission tests.

January 11, 2012

History is sort of being rewound in Solo. On a day in 1894, the first automobile trader in Indonesia, John C. Potter, delivered a German-made Benz Phaeton, ordered by Pakubuwono X. History says this was the first car in Indonesia.

Last week, the city once again acquired special automobiles - namely two Kiat Esemka 1.5i sport utility vehicles (SUV). Ordered by Solo Mayor Joko Widodo, these cars were not made in Germany, but rather by students of v

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