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Digital Review Asia Pacific (Indonesia Chapter)




Indonesia, with the amount of citizen that was in the fourth largest population in the world (with 220 million people) consists of more than 1000 island, and has its own characteristic in developing its information and communication technology infrastructure. Even the government through the Presidential Decree No 6 Year 2001 about œInformation and Communication Technology (ICT) Development and Usability in Indonesiaâ asserted that efforts to make the use of ICT optimal were really need to endeavor public and to unify the nation.

Because of that, the ICT teledensity rate in Indonesia, even it is expanding, it is still not enough. For fixed telephone lines teledensity, there are 13 million lines or about 6 lines for every 100 citizens (6%). On telecommunication industry, mobile telephone was growing rapidly. The average growth of cellular user in Indonesia since 1999 until 2005 is 63.7% per year. Until mid of 2006, penetration rate of cellular user in Indonesia were about 50 million people or about 22 million units for every 100 citizens (22%).

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