"We have predicted that the sales up to December 2011 will reach 310 thousand units," President Director of PT Toyota Astra Motor (TAM) Johnny Darmawan said here on Saturday.
With that figure, the Toyota sales in Indonesia could exceed that in Thailand, a county where Toyota sales so far is the biggest in Southeast Asia.
"It is likely that the sales in Indonesia will exceed that in Thailand because that country is being hit by a flood disaster," Johnny said.
Based on data at the Indonesian Motor-vehicle Industry Association (Gaikindo), Toyota sales up to November this year has reached 285,034 units, exceeding the 2010 figure of 280,989 units.
He predicted that the sales in December would be better than that in November which reached 15,256 in line with spare parts stock recovery and import from Thailand.
"The impact of the sales in Thailand turned out to be bigger than that of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan," he said.(*)
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