Automotive

As a medium for the testing of performance, safety, comfort, and stability of the vehicle, and the road of different types of vehicles. The Salim Group still imports Volvo trucks, buses, and construction equipment as of 2017, through a company called PT Indotruck Utama. Since January 2017, Garansindo is the sole importer and distributor of Volvo automobiles in Indonesia. In 2012, GM announced that it would reactivate the Bekasi plant to assemble a compact MPV, the Chevrolet Spin for Southeast Asian market. The 58,000 square meter plant represents an investment of USD 150 million, employs 700 people and was planned to produce 40,000 vehicles a year. GM said that the Bekasi plant was a critical part of GM’s growth strategy in Indonesia and Southeast Asia.

Even as the Indonesian automobile market has grown rapidly after the Asian Crisis Holden did not return, as GMH’s export manager Bob Branson decreed …