JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – National motorcycles sales reached 534,490 units in July 2014, dropped 28.8% from 650,829 units in previous month, the Indonesia Motorcycles Industry Association (AISI) reported.
For January-July period, national motor cycles (wholesales) amounted 4.736 million units, inched up 2% compared to 4.643 million units the same period of 2013.
Honda sold 327,364 units in July, followed by Yamaha 172,377 units, Suzuki 20,921 units, Kawasaki 12,709 units, and TVS sold 1,119 units.
For January-July 2014 period, Honda sold 1.95 million units (62.29%) and Yamaha sold 1.5 million units (31.72%).
AISI is optimistic national motorcycles sales to reach 7.7-7.9 million units this year as sales during first half exceeded 4 million units.
While national car sales is expected to grow by 5% to 1.28 million units this year, compared to 1.22 million units last year.