TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Toyota Manufacturing appoints first Indonesian CEO
Change Size
PT Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia (TMMIN) vice president director Warih Andang Tjahjono (right), administrative director Bob Azam (second right) and technical director Yui Hastoro (third left) observe the activity of a company employee during the Manufacturing Skill Interchange Festival (MASIF) at the TMMIN Learning Center Karawang Plants in West Java on Feb. 21. (Antara/Ferdi)
J
apanese automobile maker Toyota has announced the first Indonesian president director for Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia (TMMIN) as vice president director Warih Andang Tjahjono will replace Masahiro Nonami on April 1.
Warih will become the first local talent to be the president director of Toyota Manufacturing arm in Asia outside of Japan, controlling 23 manufacturing companies.
"Let's do it!," Warih said at the State Palace, responding to his appointment after a meeting of Toyota Motor Corporation president director Akio Toyoda with President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Monday.
(Read also: Toyota sources plastic resin from Chandra Asri)
Toyoda came to Indonesia to report the appointment of Warih and to update the President about the progress of Toyota's investments in Indonesia.
Having committed to invest US$15 billion gradually until 2019 for expanding production facilities, as of January the company already reached 70 percent of its goal.
Established in April 1971, TMMIN produced 218,000 cars and 210,000 machines last year. Of that number 169,100 vehicles were exported to 80 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Middle East. That represented 87 percent of Indonesia's total car exports in 2016.
Toyota Motor Corporation owns 95 percent of the company while the remaining 5 percent is owned by Astra International. (bbn)
