Report: Indonesia will be ASEAN's leading automotive market

2005 Toyota Kijang Innova

Reports from Paultan.org said that a country like Indonesia is set to become ASEAN's number one automotive market, overtaking Thailand because of the recent Thai Flood disaster since October.

New vehicle sales in Indonesia for the first 11 months of 2011 has been peaked to 17%, about over 800,000 units sold. Some say that Indonesia will be the safe haven for Japanese car factories and serve as an alternative to the flood-stricken Thailand.

The Philippines often sourced Japanese cars from Thailand but could we consider a country like Indonesia to source some Japanese vehicles? Not sure but be patient...

Scoop: http://paultan.org/2011/12/27/indonesia-set-to-be-no-1-automotive-market-in-asean/

Indonesian Golden Gate bridge disaster!

Markham II bridge tragedy

Would you look at that? This is just like what happen at some Final Destination movie where the teenage boy notices that the bridge is about to collapse. Well, this here's no movie, this is real. In a country like Indonesia, a bridge that resembles San Francisco's Golden Gate bridge over the Mahakam River was unexpectedly collapsed, leaving 11 people killed and over 30 are believed to be missing after the tragedy.

It's hard to count how many people are missing on the Indonesia Mahakam II Bridge Tragedy because nobody knows how many cars and people fell due to "zero visibility".

Our thoughts belong to those who are affected from this tragedy.

Scoop: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/indonesia/8919923/11-dead-after-Indonesias-Golden-Gate-bridge-collapses.html

Photo: Reuters