The cyber world is a popular playground for
many Indonesians, who mostly use it to seek information on subjects of
interests, according to findings from market researcher and processing company
Ipsos Indonesia released on Monday.
Iwan
Murty, managing director of Ipsos Indonesia, said the Internet was used by more
than six out of 10 Indonesians to seek information.
“The
majority of Internet users in Indonesia said they liked to surf Web sites
related to their interests,” Iwan said.
Downloading
and streaming music, enjoyed by two-thirds of those polled, are the activities
most frequently conducted by Internet users in Indonesia, according to Ipsos’
findings.
Meanwhile,
43 percent said they liked to download films and just under a fifth had watched
live television through online streaming during the past three months, Iwan
said.
Ipsos,
which is headquartered in Paris, conducts monthly surveys on Internet users in
24 countries through the Online Ipsos Panel. The countries surveyed were mostly
G20 members from around the world.
The
country with the highest percentage of internet users seeking information was
Turkey, followed closely by China and Hungary. In China, 72 percent of the
Internet users download music online, 71 percent download films and 55 percent
like to watch television programs over the Internet.
“We
found that three out of every 10 Indonesians questioned, or 27 percent, like to
play online video games, while China tops the list with 61 percent of Internet
users playing online video games, followed by Poland with 47 percent and Turkey
with 38 percent,” Iwan said.
With a
population of 240 million, a fast-growing middle class as well as growing
access to the Internet through mobile smartphones, it is estimated that 45
million of Indonesia’s population are Internet users.
The
Ministry of Communication and Information Technology has said that by the end
of this year, every subdistrict in Indonesia would be connected to the
Internet.
“We
have to have 100 percent [connectivity] this year,” Ashwin Sasongko, the
ministry’s director general of IT applications, told The Jakarta Globe earlier
this month.
Last
year, the ministry introduced Mobile Internet Service Centers (MPILK), which
are essentially small buses equipped with six laptop computers with a satellite
Internet connection. Each unit also features a 124-centimeter flat-screen
television and a telephone line.
Ashwin
said that there had so far been 5,748 MPILKs, each dedicated to a single
subdistrict. Each unit costs around Rp 500 million ($55,000), with their
operating funds are collected from cellular and Internet providers in
Indonesia.
“Each
[provider] contributes about 1.5 percent of its profit [for the program],”
Ashwin said.
Indonesia
ranks the second-highest countryin the world in the number of Facebook users,
while it comes in third place for Twitter users.
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