BYD has opened an assembly plant at Subang in West Java. It is the second of its overseas factories to reach production this year, and it did so while the European one was slipping a year.
Affected#
Nobody’s car here. It is worth setting beside the Hungarian delay, because the two together are the clearest available picture of how BYD’s localisation is actually going: on schedule in South-East Asia, a year late in Europe.
Confirmed#
| Investment | 16 trillion rupiah, about $908 million |
| Capacity | 150,000 vehicles a year |
| Site | 126 hectares |
| Models | Atto 1, M6 and M6 DM, Denza D9 |
| Staff now | more than 5,000 local technicians and operational staff |
The plant carries stamping, welding, painting and final assembly on one site. BYD states it is intended to serve both Indonesian demand and regional export, and says it plans to scale the workforce toward 20,000 and to add local battery assembly and component supply later.
Unconfirmed#
- The opening date, precisely. Reports give 3 September, described as a Thursday, which 3 September 2026 is. One outlet dates it 7 September, which reads more like its own publication date. We have not seen a BYD announcement fixing it.
- Every figure here. All of them are BYD’s, carried by trade press. No independent verification of capacity, investment or headcount exists, and the 20,000 figure is a plan rather than a commitment.
- What “local battery assembly” means. Assembling packs from imported cells and making cells are very different undertakings, and the reporting does not distinguish them.
- Whether anything reaches Europe. The stated export market is the region. Nothing suggests Indonesian-built cars are destined for European or Moroccan showrooms.