Motorcycle Depreciation Rate in Indonesia: Matic vs Sport, By the Numbers
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Indonesia has 140.9 million registered motorcycles, 83.7% of every registered vehicle in the country (Korlantas Polri, 5 April 2025, via Kompas Cek Fakta). If you own one, or several, chances are you have never once updated what it is actually worth since the day you bought it. The motorcycle depreciation rate in Indonesia is not one number, and it is not close to the number most people assume. A matic scooter and a sport bike bought for roughly the same price can be worth wildly different amounts a year or two later. This article lines up real resale prices so you can see which motorcycles actually hold their value.
Depreciation is how much value something loses over time. A motorcycle is worth less the day you ride it out of the dealership, and it keeps losing value every year after that, even with no accidents and a perfectly running engine. This matters if you track your own net worth, because a motorcycle you bought for Rp20 million is not still worth Rp20 million two years on. Recording it at its purchase price forever overstates what you actually own, sometimes by half.
Matic scooters, the automatic-transmission bikes that dominate Indonesian roads, tend to lose value slowly. Sport bikes and naked bikes lose it much faster. Real listing data from 2024 through 2026 shows the gap clearly.
The Honda Beat, Indonesia's best-selling scooter for over a decade, is priced from Rp18.98 million to Rp20 million OTR as of August 2026 (Oto.com and Zigwheels Indonesia). Used units from the 2024 to 2025 model years trade at roughly Rp15.5 million to Rp17.5 million (AstraOtoshop, citing current market listings). That is a loss of about Rp2 million to Rp4.5 million, or roughly 8% to 22%, over a year or two of use.
Carmudi Indonesia's own reporting on the Beat's resale market puts it plainly in the headline: the Beat's used price is "stable," which the outlet attributes to Honda's dominant market share keeping spare parts cheap and demand for used units constant (Carmudi Indonesia, 2026).
The step-up Honda Vario 160 shows the same pattern at a higher price point. Its CBS Active trim launched at Rp26,639,000 OTR Jakarta in December 2024 (Astra Honda Motor's own published price list). By 2026, 2024-model-year units were listed from about Rp19.9 million up to Rp25.8 million on OLX and in resale roundups from Pikiran Rakyat and Katadata's Oto desk, a loss of somewhere between 3% and 25% depending on the individual unit's condition and where it is sold.
The Honda CB150R Streetfire tells a different story. Its standard trim launched at Rp31,780,000 OTR Jakarta in August 2024 (Suara.com Otomotif). A structured price check across 2018-2024 model years, published by TribunJualBeli in January 2026, put 2023-2024 model-year CB150Rs at Rp20 million to Rp25 million in the used market. That works out to a loss of roughly Rp6.8 million to Rp11.8 million, or 21% to 37%, in a year and a half or so.
If you already own a motorcycle, the number that matters for your net worth is not what you paid. It is what it is realistically worth today, adjusted for the category it falls into. A well-known matic like a Beat or Vario is reasonable to hold at a slowly declining value in your records. A sport bike needs a much steeper markdown, especially once it passes its first year on the road, or your recorded net worth will quietly overstate what you actually have.
NetWort's manual assets on your Holdings page let you record a motorcycle under the Vehicle category and update its value as it ages, the same way this article's own figures would. If you also track a car, our piece on Indonesia's car depreciation rate by brand walks through the same exercise for four wheels, where the petrol-versus-electric split does the work that matic-versus-sport does here.