Indonesia automotive product exports is currently larger in worth than their imports. In 2017, Indonesia is the 17th largest passenger automobile producer on the planet and the fifth largest passenger car producer in Asia, producing 0.98 million autos. Major car manufacturing nations just like the US, Germany, China, Japan and South Korea, in addition to Volkswagen, Toyota, Peugeot, Honda, Nissan and Hyundai, didn’t pledge. In case of issues of safety, danger, product defect or faulty procedure in the course of the manufacturing of the motorcar, the maker can request to return either a batch or the whole production run. This process is called product recall.

The first motorized vehicle to reach in Indonesia is reported to have been a German Hildebrand & Wolfmüller two-cylinder motorbike, brought in by Briton John C Potter who was a machinist at the Oemboel Sugar Factory in Probolinggo, East Java. The first car arrived shortly …