Jakarta –
The Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan has not been able to say much about investment Tesla in the Motherland. However, Luhut ensured that the talks were still ongoing.
Luhut said that his party was bound by a Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) or confidentiality agreement so he could not say much.
“Our Tesla has an NDA, so we can’t open it, but what I can confirm is that we are still talking to Tesla,” he said at the GBK Complex, Jakarta, Friday (13/1/2023).
Luhut also could not say much about the possibility of investing in Tesla. Again, he stressed that his party was still in talks with Tesla and would continue next week.
“(How close is the possibility?) I don’t want to, but yes, the point is we were still talking yesterday, next week we will still be talking again,” he said.
On that occasion, Luhut said, both the government and Tesla were interested in this investment. “Yes, they are interested, we are interested,” he said.
Previously, a report said Tesla would soon set up an electric car factory in Indonesia. The CEO Elon Musk immediately responded to the news.
In his reply to a Twitter user’s tweet, Elon Musk asked to be careful with articles that mention anonymous sources. Such sources are judged to be often wrong.
“Please be careful writing articles that cite ‘unnamed sources,’ as they are often wrong,” Elon Musk tweeted.
Previously in a Bloomberg report, according to an unnamed source Tesla is close to a preliminary agreement on building a factory in Indonesia. The production facility will reportedly have a capacity of 1 million cars per year.
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