Isuzu to increase local content

Isuzu to increase local content

JAKARTA: Isuzu Motors of Japan, together with a local
Indonesian partner, will build a casting plant in an effort to
help lift local content of the Panther.

The plant will produce material for cylinder blocks and heads
with monthly production reaching about 500 tons when it starts
operation in the first quarter next year.

Isuzu -- which will have a 49 percent stake in the joint
venture -- will be the second Japanese carmaker to set up such a
facility in Indonesia following Toyota.

Both companies are in partnership with Astra International
producing vehicles here.