Asia and Pacific Region Forum

For Singapore's case, are you counting Malay
(the offical and National) lanaguage only?

That is wrong in more ways than I can say..

Non-Malay Singaporeans like myself [who make up some 70% or more of the whole population], never took any Malay Language courses. It's quite shameful to admit it but, I would guess that many of us would find it difficult to explain to a visitor, what the lyrics in the National Anthem actually means.

As for the bilingual policy, once again you are right. But it's interesting to note that Chinese/mandarin which is my mother tongue, was once refered in schools as a "Second Language"..

Observers have commented that the standards of Mandarin,and to a lesser extent Malay has fallen over the years, and in time to come, the new breed of Singaporean would be far more comfortable in English than in their mother tongue.

So the fact that Malay is the National language is in fact, a fairly useless statatic, while the category listing of "main language" is factually correct, it really doesn't really represent anything.

BTW, what does SES, dirs stand for?

Although it is difficult to find really accurate information,
this seems to be the best there is at the moment, provided
by Budi Rahardjo of IDNIC.

Internet Users :

· Number of paid (dialup) subscribers: 400.000 users
· Number of total Internet users : 1.5 million users
(from : [insan.co.id...]

Internet Service Providers
Licences issued : 156
Operating ISP's : 47

Some of the major ISP's (May, 2001) :-

ISP Name Number of Subscribers
LinkNet 100,000
TelkomNet 100,000
IndosatNet 41,000
CBN 35,000
IndoNet 15,000 (Jakarta only)
RadNet 20,000
Centrin 20,000
Dnet 10,000
MegaNet 10,000
Idola 4,000 (mainly corporate users)

Internet Domains (.id)
Domains are maintained by IDNIC, a single central registrar and
are available only to applicants with valid company or personal
Indonesian ID
[idnic.net.id...]

Table of Growth to March, 2001 :

Year Number of Total domains
new domains
1995 87 87
1996 240 327
1997 722 1049
1998 1484 2533
1999 2163 4696
2000 4266 8962
2001 823 9785

Forecast to have >16,000 by end of year.

Domain Categories, March 2001 :

ac.id 291 university
co.id 6115
mil.id 6
net.id 130
or.id 1571
sch.id 578 school
web.id 1059
war.net.id 34 internet cafe
go.id N/A

Portals
Almost daily start-up of new portals and the number is
therefore unknown, some popular shown below :-

· Astaga! Bought by M-Web
[astaga.com...]
· Bolehnet
[boleh.net...]
· Detik.com
[detik.com...]
· Kompas Cybermedia
[kompas.com...]
· Lippostar
[lippostar.com...]
· M-web
[m-web.co.id...]
· Satunet group. Bought by M-Web.
[satunet.com...]
· Tempo
[tempo.co.id...] and [temponews.com...]

TC

[Woz - adjusted layout for easier reading]

>I'm sure Woz can fit this in somewhere.

Yep! When we have an "Indonesia" thread I will transfer this over. I guess I will have to start one soon.

I'm working on an update now and will post soon.

It goes without saying that if you need any assistance here,
don't hesitate to knock.

let me know via stickymail when you have an update together and we will start an Indonesia thread.

"Portals" is still one of the buzzwords and playthings and there are more than you can shake a stick at. However, they are pretty much churning out the same content of trashy celebrity news, gossip and not very veiled links to p*rn and s*x chatting sites.

More later