After the excitement of Foxconn’s intention to build a factory in Indonesia, it looks like Samsung Electronics is not sitting idly by letting the moments to pass. The company is also said to be considering plans to build a mobile phone factory of its own in Indonesia. The head of Samsung Indonesia, Lee Kanh Hyung, had met with Industrial Minister MS Hidayat to discuss this possibility, according to Dow Jones.
Hidayat said that the government is currently preparing incentives to help persuade Samsung to go ahead with this plan. neither Hidayat nor Lee did not provide a time frame as to when the factory will be built. Currently Samsung already has plants for consumer electronics products in the country.
We have previously reported several times on the Indonesian government’s incentives to bring Foxconn’s electronics plants to country. Foxconn is Apple’s largest manufacturing partner.
If Samsung is going to actually build a mobile phone plant in Indonesia, this will be the third major investment decision by the Korean company in this past month. TheNextWeb reported that Samsung had agreed to renew its chip factory in Texas for $4 billion, while in China the company is also building a NAND flash memory plant for $7 billion.
At the moment Samsung still has several feature phones in its lineup even though it is concentrating its efforts on smartphones running Android and Windows Phone. According to recent results Samsung is the largest mobile phone company in the world, pushing Nokia to second place.
