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Boeing ‘looks forward’ to competing with China’s Comac for Indonesian market
As it inaugurates its first representative office in Indonesia a few months after its Chinese rival, the US-based aerospace company notes that it has collaborated with Comac in the past.
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Boeing Commercial Airplanes vice president of sales and marketing global strategic initiatives John W. Bruns (left to right), Boeing marketing and sales representative executive vice president Erika Pearson, Boeing Southeast Asia president Alexander Feldman, Garuda Indonesia CEO Irfan Setiaputra, US Ambassador to Indonesia Sung Kim, Boeing Indonesia managing director Zaid Alami, Ministry of Law and Human Rights Immigration Director General Silmy Karim and Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry First Regional Destination Development director Utari Widyastuti pose for a picture following the inauguration of Boeing Indonesia's office in Jakarta on Oct. 4, 2023. (-/-)
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pening its first office in Indonesia, Boeing has extended a welcome to China’s Comac, which entered the country’s commercial aviation market just a few months ago.
The United States-based aerospace giant said it was gearing up for competition, but also cooperation with the much younger Chinese company.
“We look forward to work with [Comac] in this market and to compete,” Boeing Indonesia managing director Zaid Alami told The Jakarta Post at the launch event for its Jakarta office on Wednesday.
Zaid noted that collaboration with Comac and other potential business partners was in the cards, adding that Boeing and Comac had previously collaborated in China.
“We are very excited about the major opportunity that we have here in the country, in terms of developing the market and working together with our [business] partners,” he elaborated.
Comac inaugurated its Indonesian representative office back in July, its first outside China.
The Shanghai-based aircraft maker sold its first ARJ21-700 to Indonesian carrier TransNusa in December last year in a challenge to Boeing and Europe’s Airbus, which dominate the Indonesian and global market.
