Spanning 126 hectares, BYD’s Indonesian factory offers an annual production capacity of 150,000 units. The Chinese automaker is currently employing over 5,000 employees at the new plant and could potentially increase that figure to over 20,000. The Chinese automotive company has built facilities for four manufacturing processes at this site: stamping, welding, painting, and assembly.
The first vehicle to roll off the assembly line at BYD’s Indonesian plant was the M6 DM plug-in hybrid MPV, which can travel up to 110 kilometres in EV mode, as per NEDC. The company also builds the Atto 1 – marketed as the Dolphin Surf in Europe – at the new facility. The city car was Indonesia’s best-selling electric car in 2025, registering 22,582 units.
According to a report from CNN Indonesia, BYD will start building the M6 EV and the D9 locally later this year. While the Chinese automotive giant generally gives a choice of plug-in hybrid and purely electric variants for the D9 in its international offerings, in Indonesia, only purely electric variants will be on offer. As agreed to adhere to Indonesia’s local production drive, BYD has entirely stopped importing cars into Indonesia and has not announced any plans to localise the other models in its local line-up: Dolphin, Atto 3, Seal, and Sealion 7, which all but points to their temporary, if not permanent, discontinuation.
