Sony to use local design

Sony to use local design

JAKARTA (JP): PT Sony Electronic Indonesia, a subsidiary of
Japan's Sony Corporation, will begin designing modified audio
products in Indonesia later this year.

Company president T. Tezuka said here over the weekend that
after a two-year period of training and preparation, Sony would
enter local design, mechanical design and electrical audio
production later this year.

"We will increase the number of employees and expand the
design functions," he said at the opening of the Sony exhibition
at the Jakarta Convention Center. The exhibition will run until
Feb. 2.

Sony Electronic Indonesia, set up to sell all its products in
the domestic and overseas markets, is a major producer of hi-fi
stereo sets, radio/tape recorders and compact disc/tape
recorders.

In Indonesia, PT Sony Indonesia is its marketing arm and its
television assembler is PT Sony Manufacturing Indonesia.

Sony said in Japan over the weekend it was considering
entering the digital broadcasting market after negotiations on a
possible capital participation with JSKyB. (icn)