PT Suzuki Indomobil Motor (formerly PT Indomobil Suzuki International until December 2008) is a joint venture between
Suzuki Motor Corporation and the
Indomobil Group. The company is located in
Jakarta,
Indonesia and specializes in manufacturing Suzuki vehicles for the domestic and international markets. A separate company, PT Suzuki Indomobil Sales (SIS), previously PT Indomobil Niaga International,[1] handles sales and marketing of Suzuki automobiles and motorcycles.
Suzuki's first activities in the Indonesian market in 1970 were through its import firm PT Indohero Steel & Engineering Company. Six years later Suzuki built a manufacturing facility (in Jakarta) which is the oldest part of the Indomobil Group.
Suzuki's first product was the
ST20 Carry (introduced in 1978), which saw extensive use as an
Angkot.[2] Nicknamed "Turungtung" (an
onomatopoetic word for the sound made by the Carry's two-stroke engine), it was built until at least 1983.[3]
In 2011, the company invested $800 million to produce the
Low Cost Green Car (LCGC) in Indonesia. In 2015, Suzuki opened another plant in
Cikarang with a total investment of $1 billion.[4] The plant manufactured the Ertiga MPV for both domestic and export markets and the K10B engine for the Karimun Wagon R.[5]
^Trisulo, Bambang; Samudra, M; Firmansyah, Arif (2003). Arsip mobil kita: Tamasya sejarah seabad perjalanan mobil di Indonesia [Our cars archive: Sightseeing through a century of the car in Indonesia] (in Indonesian). Jakarta: PT Temprint. p. 109.
ISBN9789799768506.