JAKARTA: State-owned agriculture enterprise PT Agrinas Pangan Nusantara has partnered with Indian automotive giants Mahindra and Tata Motors to procure 105,000 vehicles for the government’s Red and White Rural Cooperatives programme.
The announcement comes as Indonesia pushes for self-sufficiency in many industries, and critics say domestic carmakers, which are grappling with weak consumer demand, would have adequate capacity to meet such an order.
According to press releases from the two Indian companies, Indonesia is set to procure 70,000 vehicles from Tata Motors, marking the company’s “biggest order”, and the remaining vehicles from Mahindra, which the firm also describes as its “biggest ever export order”.
Additionally, the procurement from Tata Motors comprises 35,000 Yodha pickups and 35,000 Ultra T.7 light trucks, to be supplied to Agrinas through its Indonesian subsidiary PT Tata Motors Distribusi Indonesia.
Tata Motors Indonesia Distribusi director Asif Shamim said the products were designed “for sustained performance, high uptime and efficient operating economics”, and the order reflected continued acceptance of Indian commercial vehicles in international markets.
“Their deployment will support agricultural logistics in Indonesia by improving connectivity, enabling more efficient movement of goods across rural and regional networks,” he said, as quoted in the press release published on Feb 10.
Meanwhile, Mahindra is to ship 35,000 Scorpio pickups starting this year. — The Jakarta Post/ANN
