The Astra was an Americanautomobile manufactured in 1920. The car was built by a subsidiary concern of Dorris, and was shown that year in its native St. Louis. It featured a 108_inch wheelbase, a Leroifour_cylinder engine, and a slightly pointed radiator. Some five or ten units were built before the company failed in June of 1920.
Astra International was founded in 1957, based on a small trading business operated by brothers Tjia Kian Tie and William Soerydadjaya, part of an ethnic Chinese family that had already lived in Indonesia for several generations, adopting the "Muslim" name of Soerydadjaya.
Astra's response was to begin exports of a number of automotive components, including spark plugs and car batteries, as well as Toyota engines and Komatsu forklift frames.
Astra took steps to reduce its reliance on the automotive market, which accounted for 80 percent of its sales in the late 1990s, by extending into a variety of diversified areas, including an entry into the agribusiness industry with the purchases of a number of palm oil, tea, rubber, and cocoa plantations in 1995.
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