Jotun opens Cikarang plant

Jotun opened a new water-based paint plant in Cikarang, Bekasi, on April 15, adding fresh manufacturing investment to one of Indonesia’s busiest industrial corridors. (antarafoto.com) PT Jotun Indonesia said the factory cost Rp1 trillion, or about $61 million at recent exchange rates, and is part of the company’s expansion in Indonesia. Kompas and Bisnis.com reported the site can lift output to 100 million liters a year. (kompas.com) (bisnis.com) (google.com) The inauguration took place in Cikarang, West Java, on Wednesday, April 15, 2026. Jotun President Director Arun Kumar said the plant reflects the company’s “confidence in the potential of the Indonesian market” and its plan to strengthen local manufacturing. (jawawa.id) The opening was presented alongside the Industry Ministry’s 2026 target for non-oil-and-gas manufacturing growth of 5.51 percent, backed by Rp852.9 trillion in investment. The ministry said that spending is meant to create jobs and raise welfare. (antarafoto.com) That pairing puts one factory opening inside a bigger policy push. Indonesia has been trying to keep manufacturing as a larger share of growth even as industrial estates around Bekasi and Cikarang compete for new capital from chemicals, autos, electronics, and building materials. (kontan.co.id) (kompas.com) For Jotun, Indonesia is already a large market. Company executives said Indonesia ranks among Jotun’s 10 biggest contributors globally, helped by steady construction demand and demand for coatings suited to tropical weather. (jawawa.id) The new site also shifts more of that demand onto domestic production. Kontan reported Jotun will focus the plant on Indonesia’s decorative paint market, where wall paint is the country’s largest paint segment. (kontan.co.id) Jotun already had manufacturing in Indonesia before this opening. A company profile distributed through Indotrading says Jotun set up local production in 1990, operates a powder-coating facility in Legok, Tangerang, and has run a liquid-paint plant in Cibitung, Bekasi, since 2005. (indotrading.com) Several reports said the Cikarang factory is Jotun’s third production facility in Indonesia. That gives the company a larger base in Bekasi at a time when developers and contractors are still a core source of paint demand. (inews.id) (kompas.com) The immediate next step is simpler than the ceremony: run the lines, move product, and test whether a Rp1 trillion bet in Cikarang can turn Indonesia’s construction demand into faster local sales. (bisnis.com) (jawawa.id)