GM staff returning to RI

GM staff returning to RI

SINGAPORE (Reuters): General Motors expatriate staff have begun returning to Indonesia, the company said in a statement.

Eleven employees were in the first wave which returned from Singapore on Monday, it said, and the remainder should be back in country by the end of the week.

"The situation continues to improve and is beginning to return to normal. We anticipate that families will be able to return soon," the statement quoted Bill Botwick, president of GM Indonesia, as saying.

The statement, released late on Monday, said 20 employees and 38 family members had left Indonesia on May 16. The company's international headquarters had said on May 15 that a plant in Indonesia which made Opel Blazers for the Indonesian market had stopped production as of May 14.

The latest GM statement said normal operations were resumed on May 18.