KARAWANG, Indonesia — Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto on Sunday led the groundbreaking ceremony on a $5.9 billion project to build an electric vehicle battery plant and other facilities backed by China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), as the Southeast Asian nation accelerates its drive to become a regional tech hub.
Prabowo inaugurated the project in the West Java town of Karawang, where Chinese-Indonesian consortium Contemporary Amperex Technology Indonesia Battery (CATIB) is building a factory that will churn out lithium-ion batteries at a starting annual capacity of 6.9 gigawatt hours.
