Synopsis
This report presents an overview of Indonesia’s Internet market and looks at the changes that have taken place over the last decade as the telecommunications industry got back on its feet following the economic crisis of the late 1990s. Commercial Internet services were launched in Indonesia in 1995. Coming into 2010, it was estimated that Indonesia had 26 million Internet users, up from 13 million at in 2007. The early 2010 user figure, however, represented only around 11% of the population. And at the same time broadband Internet services were still very much in their infancy. In fact, broadband services constituted only 18% of all Internet subscriptions by end-2009 and were estimated to only number around 1.2 million by that time. 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.