JAKARTA: Car ownership is not for the fainthearted in Indonesia, thanks to erratic fuel supplies, awful roads and hilariously high price tags. Yet new auto sales are overtaking expectations despite an economy still stuck on the hard shoulder.
A brand new family car can cost as high as 280 million rupiah (RM115,000), an extraordinary sum in a country where most people struggle to survive on a few dollars a day.
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