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Indonesia Seeks to Lure Tesla Battery Investment

President flies to Texas on US visit to meet with Musk

Our Correspondent
May 18
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Indonesia Seeks to Lure Tesla Battery Investment
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Indonesia is so eager to lure the US car manufacturer Tesla to build a battery factory in the country to foster a domestic electric vehicle industry that Joko Widodo himself recently flew to Texas to meet Elon Musk, violating the protocol that presidents do not fly to meet mere mortals, mere mortals fly to meet them.

But Musk is no mere mortal. He heads …

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