Indonesia's fast-laners doing just fine

For the Indonesian elite, life must be getting better. It would appear BMW is fast replacing IMF as the best-known TLA (Three-Letter Abbreviation), if latest sales figures are anything to go by. In the first half of the year, sales of new BMWs soared a massive 733% to more than 1,000 units, while for Asia as a whole the rise was a more modest 17% to 27,476. The German automaker expects its Indonesian new car sales to reach around 2,500 this year û a major recovery towards the 4,000 achieved in pre-crisis 1997.