Orders come for Esemka cars

JAKARTA: Although the Kiat Esemka, a car assembled by students of a vocational high school in Surakarta, has not passed the roadworthiness test yet, Surakarta Mayor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo claimed that as of now, the administration had received at least 5,000 orders for the car.

“I don’t know the people who ordered the cars. Please ask for the details about business queries at the Esemka workshop. I only help promote the car,” Jokowi said Friday on the sidelines of a discussion titled “Realizing Regional Administration Free from Corruption for the People’s Welfare,” at Hotel Sultan in Jakarta.

He said the car would be brought to Jakarta next week to undergo emission tests.

“I hope it will pass the test,” he said, as quoted by tribunnews.com.