As mentioned above, economic growth and car sales have a strong relation. When we see an increase in car sales it - generally - means that economic growth is rising accordingly. Vice versa, when car sales are declining it tends to go hand-in-hand with slowing economic growth. Indonesia’s GDP growth has slowed to 5.02 percent (y/y) in 2014, the slowest growth pace since 2009, and down from the 5.8 percentage point growth in 2013. Therefore, car sales figures have been under pressure as well. In 2014, a total of 1,208,019 cars were sold in Indonesia, down 1.8 percent (y/y) from 1,229,916 car sales in the previous year.