Indonesia.id Onno W. Purbo
Brief Overview
Population (Million)
ICT Facts
WITSA –
HW, SW & Services (US$M)
ICT/GDP (%)
ICT/Capita
PC Installed (x1000)
Internet % Total Commerce
Content Consumed – Calamaris Log Report Produced – Google Search
Typical Consumed Yahoo.com & its family - number one. Search engine & web mail are the most accessed sites. News & online media are next in the row. Not much Porn sites accessed.
Typical Produced (% in Indonesian Language) Commerce & tourism7.1% Industry/Business11.6% Civil society12.1% Government15.7% Culture and literature16.9% News & current affairs22.0% Education18.9% Technology27.1% Political groupings11.2% Health/Nutrition23.7% Rural development17.2% NGO8.5% Agriculture9.7%
Content Source – search engine search engine media online – media online mail & portal – media online mail – web hosting yellow page yellow page
Online Services
E-government - government parliament house telecommunication industry
Distance Learning “Illegal” - gov’t open university distance learning Mostly informal over mailing lists
E-commerce / e-business Many URLs – google search 150+ Indonesian business mailing list In 2001, 0.1% of total commerce US$2.11 per capita
Telemedicine Research Groups in Universities, eg, Most public sites & mailing list – health consultation.
E-communities Mostly at
Evaluate yahoogroups.com indonesian mailing lists Mostly <100 subscribers Evaluate only >100 subscribers
Evaluation Total mailinglist49913 Evaluated30195 (60.5%) Mailing list > 100 subs1247 (4.2%)
Mailing lists total 1247 Pornography 73 (5.9%) Social350 (28.1%) Religion 155 (12.4%) Politics 94 (7.5%) Knowledge 257 (20.6%) Hobby 110 (8.8 %) Economics 16 (1.3%) Business 192 (15.4 %)
Subscribers total Pornography (13.2%) Social87875 (19.4%) Religion (12.2%) Politics (7.1%) Knowledge (18.5%) Hobby (10.7 %) Economics 4595 (1.0%) Business (17.8 %)
Messages in 2001 total Pornography (2.7%) Social (23.3%) Religion (12.0%) Politics (11.7%) Knowledge (18.3%) Hobby (14.8%) Economics (0.8%) Business (16.4%)
Activeness (msg/subs/month) Pornography 0.71 Social4.23 Religion 3.46 Politics 5.81 Knowledge 3.48 Hobby 4.88 Economics 2.95 Business 3.25
Bandwidth (Kbps) total 1,711 Pornography 704 (41.2%) Social236 (13.8%) Religion 146 (8.5%) Politics 113 (6.6 %) Knowledge 270 (15.8%) Hobby 103 (6.0%) Economics 9 (0.6%) Business 128 (7.5%)
ICT Industry
Top Internet Services- 133 Internet Provider- 90 Software- 88
ICT Industry
Indonesia Internet Infrastructure 170+ Principal ISP lisense Holder 125 Member APJII 50+ active in providing services in 100+ cities, all provinces APJII provide common facilities, such as, APJII Indonesia Internet Exchange (IIX) APJII IDNIC Domain Registration & NIR (APNIC)
Internet Users & Subscribers (x 1000)
User Profile Male Years Old Educated 60-70% access via Internet Café
Internet Café (
Peak IIX Bandwidth (Mbps)
Community “WiFi” Based Infrastructure
Enabling Policy Cost US$ 34.5 Million World Bank Loan – mostly concept & paper work. Director of Vocational School managed to integrate 1500/4000 Voc.School to the Internet
Regulatory Environment Electronic transactiondraft Cyber-crimedraft Consumer laws for e-commercen/a Data protection and privacyn/a Broadcasting licensing and content regulation1997 Act Internet-related licensing1999 Act Digital signaturedraft Convergence and multimedia regulationn/a Intellectual property rights regime2002 Act WTO statusWTO Member Telecommunication Act1999 Act Local domain name registry & dispute resolution2001 Ministerial Decree
Open Source Movement
Very Intense (2-3 Seminars / Week) HQ - & its mailing listswww.linux.or.id Three (3) Indonesian Distributions LTSP for Internet Café & Schools Linux Magazines, InfoLinux & Neotek Lots of Book written by Indonesians
Open Source Vote Results Favorite Distro- RH, Mandrake Favorite SQL server- MySQL Favorite Environment- KDE Favorite Processor- AMD Linux vs. Microsoft- Linux Win
Research into ICT Last 10 Years ~ US$ 3 Million Ministry of Research & Technology- 88 Ministry of Education- 36 MRT – 65% electronics & telecomm; 20 software. 40% by Institute of Technology Bandung MoE – 40% electronics; 20% software
Future Trends Wireless Linux Youth driven Problem Source / “Opportunities” Accountable Leaders
Strategic Plan