Mitsubishi Motors Krama Yudha Indonesia


PT Mitsubishi Motors Krama Yudha Indonesia is a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Motors Corporation for its passenger cars and light commercial vehicle production in Indonesia. A separate company, called PT Mitsubishi Motors Krama Yudha Sales Indonesia handled the marketing and sales of Mitsubishi passenger cars and LCV in Indonesia. The company was a result of restructuration in April 2017 when Mitsubishi Motors operations and Mitsubishi Fuso operations were separated from the former company, PT Krama Yudha Tiga Berlian. Today, KTB exclusively handled Mitsubishi Fuso production and sales in Indonesia.
In 2018, Indonesia emerged as the largest market for Mitsubishi Motors, recording 146,805 total sales.
In 2019, MMKI surpassed Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia as the second largest car manufacturer in Indonesia by production output, behind Astra Daihatsu Motor. At the same year, Mitsubishi Xpander is the most exported car from Indonesia. That year, MMKI sent 64,714 Xpander to various countries, including Vietnam, the Philippines and Thailand.

History

As the Indonesian government encouraged investments in Indonesia, PT New Marwa was established as the sole distributor of Mitsubishi vehicles in 1970. In 1973, New Marwa changed their name to PT Krama Yudha Tiga Berlian Motors. At the same time, both PT Krama Yudha Ratu Motor and PT Mitsubishi Krama Yudha Motors and Manufacturing was established to operate their new manufacturing plant in Pulo Gadung, Jakarta. Mitsubishi then quickly gained popularity in Indonesia as the manufacturer of durable LCVs and heavy commercial trucks. The 'Colt' nameplate, being the most popular and most used commercial vehicle nameplate in the country helped Mitsubishi gained with popularity.
In 1980, KTB took over PT Pipit Motor Jakarta, converting it to PT Krama Yudha Kesuma Motor to assemble passenger cars in Tanjung Priok, Jakarta. As their passenger car sales swiftly declined, KTB closed the plant in 2005, effectively ending Mitsubishi Galant and Mitsubishi Kuda assembly in Indonesia.
In 1997, KTB was planning to launch an Asian Utility Vehicle designed to compete with Toyota Kijang, the best selling car in Indonesia for more than a decade. However, the Southeast Asian economic crisis pushed back the launch schedule to 1999 when Mitsubishi Kuda was launched in Indonesia. However, the car was never a big success, it was quickly discontinued in 2005 following the closure of the KKM plant.
In 2015, Mitsubishi Motors announced that it would launch an entry-level MPV in Indonesia to compete with Toyota Avanza. On March 24, 2015, Mitsubishi Motors started the construction of a new manufacturing plant in Cikarang, West Java, with the maximum production capacity of 160,000 vehicles per year and established MMKI at the same time. The plant was opened in April 2017. Per 1 April 2017, the passenger cars and LCV operations was transferred from PT KTB to PT MMKSI. Mitsubishi Xpander, the entry-level MPV, was launched in August 2017.
As the demand for the Xpander model is higher than expected, Mitsubishi Motors invested an additional Rp 540 billion to increase the plant production capacity from the current 160,000 units to 220,000 units in fiscal 2020, and to open up to 800 jobs, bringing the total to 4,100 workers. Of the 220,000 units, the Xpander would contribute around 160,000 units of production.

Facility

MMKI began passenger cars and LCV production in April 2017. The manufacturing plant is located in Greenland International Industrial Center, an industrial estate located in Kota Deltamas, Cikarang, Bekasi Regency, West Java. The total investment is approximately 20 million yen. It has the maximum production capacity of 160,000 vehicles per year in a total area of 30 ha with the number of employees of approximately 3,000 people. The plant manufactured the Xpander, Pajero Sport, L300 and supplied Xpander-based Nissan Livina to Nissan Motor Indonesia as a Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance strategic partnership. MMKI also exported the Xpander to various countries, including Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Egypt, Bolivia and other countries.
Meanwhile, the predecessor company, KTB operated an automobile assembly facility PT Krama Yudha Ratu Motor in Pulo Gadung, Jakarta. The facility was opened in 1973 and manufactured passenger cars, LCVs and heavy commercial vehicles throughout the years. It has the maximum production capacity of 150,000 vehicles per year. The plant manufactured Mitsubishi Fuso vehicles, while previously it also produced the Colt L300 and Colt T120SS light commercial vehicles, and Outlander Sport from kits imported from Japan.

Models

Current models

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