The small percentage of sales matches the slow progress of Indonesia’s energy transition: Despite receiving billions of dollars in funding to retire coal and transition to greener energy, the country's renewable energy mix was just 14% in 2024, with a majority of energy coming from highly-polluting fossil fuels such as coal.
The future of Indonesia’s automobiles and motorbikes is electric — at least according to exhibitors at the Indonesia International Motor Show, which opened in the country's capital city of Jakarta on Thursday.
The show opened as the country faced a slowdown in it's automative industry last year: In 2024 sales fell by nearly 14% — from 1 million units in 2023 to 866,000 in 2024 according to the Indonesian Automotive Manufacturers Association.
That's despite the country's own slow uptake of electric vehicles and motorbikes, which only make up a small fraction of the vehicles in the world's fourth most populated country.
Indonesia’s Minister of Industry, Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita, said the event is expected to be one of the main drivers in the recovery of the country’s slowing automotive sector.
