Indonesia’s LCGC: what’s going right, and wrong, so far

In 2013, Indonesia's President signed a regulation which exempts low-cost and energy-efficient cars from luxury sales tax, provided they are assembled locally with a minimum amount of local components. That first year, 51,180 low-cost and green cars (LCGC) meeting the specifications were sold. The following year this jumped to more than 172,000 units. But has the project panned out according to plan?

Not exactly, as Domy Halim, Indonesia Senior Consulting Manager at Ipsos Business Consulting, told Automotive World.