New vehicle sales in Indonesia fell 9.8% month on month to 30,050 units in August, Dow Jones reported, citing the car assemblers’ association, Gaikindo.
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Passenger car sales – a barometer of consumer confidence – fell to 3,101 units from 4,338 in July, the report added.
Commercial vehicles accounted for 26,949 of all vehicles sold, down from 28, 970 units a month earlier, the association said in a statement, according to Dow Jones, which added that, so far this year, Indonesians have bought 234,162 new vehicles.
The country’s largest vehicle maker, PT Astra International, which has a joint venture with Toyota to assemble and distribute the company’s vehicles in Indonesia, saw a 12% month on month decline in domestic sales to 15,384 units in August, Dow Jones said.
