REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, KARAWANG -- The Industry Ministry has forecast Indonesia's car exports to reach 200 thousand this year, up 13 percent from 173 thousand last year.

"We exported 173 thousand cars last year. The figure is expected to increase to around 200 thousand in 2014," the ministry's director general for high technology priority industry, Budi Darmadi, stated after inaugurating the second unit of PT Honda Prospect Motor's plant in the Karawang District, West Java, on Wednesday.

The car exports will represent 15 percent of the total car production, which is projected to reach 1.3 million in 2014, he claimed.

He noted that the countries which have become the market for our cars were satisfied with the performance of Indonesian cars, thus the chances of increasing car exports were high.