Indonesia and Türkiye Join Hands to Boost EV Battery Industry

Indonesia-Türkiye Joint Push to Boost EV Battery Industry

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Indonesia’s Minister of Industry, Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita, has articulated with admirable candor the nation’s readiness to collaborate with Türkiye in the burgeoning battery industry, a sector now synonymous with the future of mobility and energy security. Speaking at the Annual Teknofest Aerospace and Technology Festival in Istanbul, the minister underscored Indonesia’s willingness to pursue joint research, investment, and technology transfer, thereby fortifying regional supply chains while advancing the country’s own industrial transformation agenda.

His visit to Aspilsan Türkiye’s eminent battery technology firm with an impressive annual capacity of 21.6 million lithium-ion cells symbolizes a burgeoning synergy that may well reshape the contours of the electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem across both nations.

With Indonesia’s EV fleet swelling from 116,000 units in 2023 to 207,000 in 2024, and a colossal USD 5.9 billion megaproject recently inaugurated by President Prabowo, the demand for batteries is no longer speculative but immediate, urgent, and expansive.

Yet Teknofest was more than a venue for industrial courtship; it became a crucible of ideas, aspirations, and youthful ambition. Agus lavished praise upon Indonesia’s young delegates who competed in science and technology contests, describing the festival as both a “golden opportunity” and a “learning space” to kindle domestic innovation.

The minister was particularly struck by how Türkiye has woven national pride into the very fabric of its technological renaissance, a model Indonesia is keen to emulate. He rightly observed that when youth take pride in scientific achievement, innovation ceases to be an obligation and becomes a vocation.

Indeed, Türkiye’s strategy of embedding science and technology centres across its provinces is a salutary example of how healthy competition can galvanize a nation’s creativity. Indonesia, standing at the cusp of its own industrial reawakening, must draw inspiration from this ethos, nurturing a culture where science is celebrated, innovation is instinctive, and industrial progress is inseparable from national pride