Indonesia car sales plunge 96% in May, Astra sees June reboundFILE PHOTO: A model poses next to a Mitsubishi Xpander during the 2018 Indonesia International Motor Show in Jakarta on April 21, 2018. (AFP)JAKARTA: Car sales in Indonesia plunged 95.8% in May from a year earlier to 3,551 units, industry association data cited by the country's largest auto distributor PT Astra International showed on Monday. Indonesia's car market is dominated by Japanese brands, with Toyota and Daihatsu usually leading sales, but Mitsubishi and Suzuki led in May. But Astra, which controls about half of the Indonesian car market, saw signs of an improvement in June after selling only 1,102 cars domestically in May, down 97.6% from a year earlier. Astra sold 134,649 cars domestically in January-May, down 40.6% from a year earlier.

Source: Bangkok Post June 16, 2020 07:18 UTC