Indonesia - officially the Republic of Indonesia - is a nation of about 17,500 islands in South East Asia, and the world’s largest archipelagic state. With a population of 237 million (237,512,355 population for 2008, according to US Census Bureau).

Indonesia Internet and Broadband Services
This report presents an overview of Indonesia’s Internet market and looks at the changes that have been taking place as the telecommunications industry got back on its feet following the economic crisis of the late 1990s. Commercial Internet services commenced in Indonesia in 1995. Coming into 2008, Indonesia had an estimated 25 million Internet users. This, however, represented only around 10% of the population. And broadband Internet services were still very much in their infancy. Problems with inferior telecommunications infrastructure were likely to continue to impede Internet growth. However, the country is considered to have enormous potential as an online market.

Broadband and Consumer E-Commerce in Indonesia
AUGUST 2007 REVIEW
Telekomunikasi Indonesia will invest more in high-speed Internet services to counter market share gains by new entrants in the cellphone industry, including the Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing. The West Java company will spend $50 million this year to upgrade its network, Rinaldi Firmansyah, president director, said in an interview resently in Jakarta. He declined to provide a comparative number or a time frame for the investment. "Competition in the cellular business" is a concern, he said. "What we'd like to do is increase broadband sales."

Increased competition lowered average revenue per customer at Telkom's cellphone unit, Telekomunikasi Selular, descending 8 percent to 78,000 rupiah, or about $8.40, during the first six months of this year. There are 8.5 million personal computers in Indonesia, but Telkom has just 150,000 high-speed Internet customers, Firmansyah said. "There is a big opportunity for broadband," he added.