Texmaco Perkasa
Texmaco Perkasa is a family of medium-duty commercial vehicles manufactured by Indonesian automaker PT Wahana Perkasa Auto Jaya, which is a company under the Texmaco group. Started production after the New Order in 1999 by making trucks, and in 2001 finally participated in producing variants of bus vehicles. Perkasa means "mighty" in Indonesian. These vehicles are well known in Indonesia for being the standard trucks and buses operated by the Indonesian Armed Forces. Perkasa truck was first launched in late 1998, with a claim of 90% local content. TNI (Indonesian armed forces) and Polri (Indonesian national police) are the first customers, intended as military vehicles (kendaraan militer — ranmil) and tactical vehicles (kendaraan taktis — rantis). Perkasa stopped production in 2004 after the Texmaco group went bankrupt by IBRA. Description Truck The Perkasa truck is claimed to have a local content of more than 90%, and was claimed as using the best technology in its class. Texmaco licensed technology from a variety of well-known truck and spare parts manufacturers in the world. As a core part, Texmaco licenses diesel engines, gears, axles, from Austrian manufacturer Steyr, they also licensed Cummins diesel engines from the United States. The diesel engine licensed