In a statement on Opera’s Web site, cofounder Jon von Tetzchner said Indonesia for the first time ranked first among Opera Mini users from May 2009 to May 2010, displacing Russia from the No. 1 spot, which it had held for two years.
Since May 2009, Von Tetzchner said, the number of Opera Mini users across the world had increased by more than 140 percent to 61.4 million. Indonesia had one of the highest growth rates at 317 percent.
According to the report “Opera: State of the Mobile Web, May 2010,” the most visited Web site in Indonesia is social-networking platform Facebook, followed by search engine Google.com and news portal Detik.com.
Most Indonesian users, it said, browsed the Internet from 8 p.m. to midnight, and 23 percent were aged between 20 and 24 years.
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Data from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology’s Directorate of Post and Telecommunications showed that Internet penetration in Indonesia had reached 14.6 percent by last December, while cell-phone users accounted for 66.3 percent of the total population during the same time.
Koesmarihati, a member of the ministry’s study group on telecommunications regulation, said at a Japan-Indonesia Information and Communications Technology symposium on Monday that the government planned to complete 100 percent of its Universal Service Obligation program by 2014.
This would make ICT available in every village, in border areas, on the outermost islands, and in other non-commercial areas.
(Source: Jakarta Globe)
