Indonesia Could Pass Thailand To Become The Largest Vehicle Market

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Indonesia on the road to overtaking Thailand

THIS year Indonesia could pass Thailand to become the largest vehicle market, by unit sales, in Southeast Asia.

BANGKOK: -- That's no small thing, given Thailand has edged into the world's top 10 vehicle producers and Indonesian output, at the growth rate of the past five years, will get there by 2020.

The potential of this market for Australian components makers was acknowledged, belatedly, when the Federation of Automotive Products Manufacturers sent its first delegation to Jakarta in November.

Industry and Innovation Minister Greg Combet has recently appointed former Ford Indonesia president Will Angove to the new position of automotive supplier advocate with a brief to help auto components suppliers "compete in new markets".

Less innovatively, Mr Combet's headline task for Mr Angove is getting local fleet managers to buy more local vehicles. His focus should be assisting Australian suppliers to escape the orbit of a fading industry that builds 220,000 units annually to engage with the vastly larger and growing Southeast Asian auto sector.

Indonesia and Thailand produced more than a million vehicles for their domestic markets for the first time last year but the Thais are still far ahead in quality, quantity and value to the national economy.

However, Indonesia has the advantage of potentially greater domestic scale, international makers keen to commit, a ready-made export opportunity and -- if planners care to study the Thai industry -- a successful development model.


Full story: http://afg-thailand.blogspot.com/2013/03/indonesia-on-road-to-overtaking-thailand.html

-- Automotive Focus Group 2013-03-06

[billd766]

Lost the first place in world rice sales and now this?

Good old PTP the world leader in something but I forget what..........................

[waza]

Another good result for the Thai economic miracle thanks to the PTP government mismanagement

[Payboy]

Indonesian output, at the growth rate of the past five years, will get there by 2020

Until then, guess where they will be importing most of their vehicles from?

[rfukata]

" if planners care to study the Thai industry"

just ask the Japanese automakers, they succeeded in Thailand, not the Thai's, so bringing the knowhow

to Indonesia will be easy and most likely surpass Thailand before 2020.

[chainarong]

If you stand back and rest on your laurels this will happen , just ask Greg Combet , whats happened to Australian manufacturing and of late the future of Ford and The General M Australia.

[soi41]

Lost the first place in world rice sales and now this?

Good old PTP the world leader in something but I forget what..........................

Another good result for the Thai economic miracle thanks to the PTP government mismanagement

Wow, you guys must really love your new country of residence!

That Indonesia is going to surpass Thailand as a MARKET, is hardly surprising considering they have a population 4 times that of Thailand. And where do you think the cars are coming from?

I guess you all have missed the news in the the last half year, where all the big carmanufacturars have announced big investments in Thailand in the years to come?? Ofcourse, you have missed it, as it doesn't fit your agenda.

So back to the stonetable @ 7-11 with your Leos. You don't even have to go to your 10 baht/hour internetcafe to answer this, because it really doesn' matter

[billd766]

Lost the first place in world rice sales and now this?

Good old PTP the world leader in something but I forget what..........................

>Another good result for the Thai economic miracle thanks to the PTP government mismanagement

Wow, you guys must really love your new country of residence!

That Indonesia is going to surpass Thailand as a MARKET, is hardly surprising considering they have a population 4 times that of Thailand. And where do you think the cars are coming from?

I guess you all have missed the news in the the last half year, where all the big carmanufacturars have announced big investments in Thailand in the years to come?? Ofcourse, you have missed it, as it doesn't fit your agenda.

So back to the stonetable @ 7-11 with your Leos. You don't even have to go to your 10 baht/hour internetcafe to answer this, because it really doesn' matter

An awful lot of those cars are actually built in Indonesia the same as most pickup trucks for the Asian market are built in Thailand or do you believe that the only country producing cars is Thailand?

[ronrat]

Bali and Jakarta are already choked with vehicles. By 2050 SE Asia will be a carpark. The WHO had better come up with some infrastructure for roads because the Governments will be too busy taking kickbacks from the car makers. Whover thinks the standard car in Thailand should be a bloody big pick up is an idiot. If they do the same in Indonesia it will be awash with what is known by expats in Balikpapan on Borneo (my brother is one) as "another bastard ute" and traffic will be at a standstill.

[samran]

" if planners care to study the Thai industry"

just ask the Japanese automakers, they succeeded in Thailand, not the Thai's, so bringing the knowhow

to Indonesia will be easy and most likely surpass Thailand before 2020.

you'd hope so, the market is four or five times bigger than Thailand's.