Happy New Year 2002 and after trying accessing your site for several days at the end of Dec 2001 finally your site is up again (maybe down for end of year maintenance ?)

Anyway glad to have you back because we also rely on your data, this is why we also provide data on Indonesia to you and thank you for the cooperation so far.

Following the workshop done by ITU called Internet in South East Asia2001 , Komitel (Koperasi Komunitas Telematika or Cooperative on Telecentre Community) a cooperative on cybercafe in Indonesia made a study on the internet user collected data from warnet (Indonesian term of internet kiosk or cybercafe)

We expect the internet user in Indonesia around 4.4 millions entering year  2002 and more than 40 % of Indonesian access internet thru internet kiosks and also office is a favourite place to access internet.
Considering the number of population exceeding 220 million the density of the internet is still low approaching 2%.

The number of internet kiosks at the end of year 2000 is around 2,500 and we expect the number to exceed 3,000 by the end of 2001 (,some of them are also act as multiplayer game centre that is also popular in Indonesia, playing Counterstrike in local area network).

Majority of these cybercafe or warnet still use dial up POTS, especially in urban area, but in Jakarta area many already use Cable Modem along with the cable TV for their access (Hybrid Coax/Fibre).

Information from one largest Cable TV provider, Cablevision is out of 70,000 cable TV user , around 2,000 houses, warnet and corporate account
use it for internet access. ADSL is still not popular and ISDN has problem because of cable quality in last mile.
There are other new cable TV provider such as Telkom MMA(Multimedia Access) , Indovision, IM2 (Indosat Mega Media) but the number of broadband internet access from these new provider are still small compared to Cablevision.
There are more than 150 ISP  and about 5 NAP (Network Access provider ) and 5 new VOIP licensing in Indonesia at the end of 2001. Domestic Fixed Basic Telephone service still provide by PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom ) and International line by PT Indosat, Satelindo although in the near future Indosat and Telkom can both provide domestic and international telecommunication.

Some warnets(cybercafe) in a remote island in Sulawesi use wireless WLAN 2.4Ghz to share VSAT access(asymmetric uplink or downlink). Also wireless Outdoor WLAN is also use in some cities in Jakarta, Jogyakarta, Bandung and Surabaya because wireline is not readily available.

In the future VSAT and combination of one way downlink receiver and uplink using the terrestrial wireline infrastructure will be popular because Indonesia is an largest archipelago nation, spread thru 13,000 islands with three timezones and more than 70% of the area is water or seas.

Whatever people say .... for me this  is the best.
Please pardon me, Happy Idul Fitri and also Happy New Year

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