Facebook Indonesia Outpaces Southeast Asian Counterparts in 2008
At a growth rate of 645% in 2008, Indonesia has been the fastest growing country on Facebook in Southeast Asia, outpacing growth in China, India, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore.
Surprisingly, the 831,000 Indonesians on Facebook are a small minority in their own country. With 0.4% penetration, they represent just a small portion of the of 237 million people in Indonesia.
There is stiff competition amongst social networks in southeast Asia. Friendster is the largest social network in Asia with about 65 million users. Following Friendster is Facebook (14 million), MySpace (15 million), CyWorld (Korea, 14 million), Hi5 (10 million), Orkut (10 million), Xiaonei (China, 5 million), 51.com (China, 5 million), and Bebo (4 million).
In Indonesia, Friendster was the first social network to translate into Bahasa Indonesian in March of this year. At the time, the social network already had ten times the number of users that Facebook has now and enthusiastic Bahasa speakers were signing up in droves. Friendster now claims almost 45% of the Indonesian market and has consistently been ranked by Alexa as the third most visited site and the largest social network both in Indonesia and in Asia.
Nevertheless, loyal Facebook users from Indonesia were requesting their own Bahasa Indonesian translations for months earlier this year. Today, both Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Melayu translations are available via Facebook’s crowd-sourced Translations tool.
Facebook’s strong growth that Indonesia shows that despite the large number of social networking services in Asia, Facebook can still grow significantly. We looking forward to seeing how Facebook finds new ways to grow in the region in the coming year.
January 6th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
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January 19th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
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January 21st, 2009 at 4:18 am
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February 2nd, 2009 at 6:01 am
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February 14th, 2009 at 4:28 am
Kami ingin seluruh masyarakat di asia mempunyai facebook dengan masing2 bahasa.Juga bahasa indonesia.
February 20th, 2009 at 2:12 am
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March 9th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
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March 23rd, 2009 at 10:49 pm
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April 12th, 2009 at 3:15 am
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June 28th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
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March 27th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
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April 15th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
[...] ^ Facebook Indonesia Outpaces Southeast Asian Counterparts in 2008 [...]
May 1st, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Indonesia mrupakan pasar potensial dengan jumlah penduduk 300 jutaan, dan juga sebagai negara islam terbesar di dunia… maka adalah sebaiknya juga diperhatikan mengenai sensitifitas mengenai agama, yang akhir-akhir ini banyak pelecehan tentang islam akan tetapi dibiarkan saja oleh facebook .. tetapi begitu isu sedikit saja mengenai yahudi.. maka akan segera di respon dan diblokir.
facebook akan kehilangan potensi pasarnya di Indonesia jika terus menerus melakukan diskriminasi dan bukannya MINIMAL bersikap netral.
October 8th, 2010 at 5:59 am
yes’emang betul loe bilang makin lama bukan hanya facebook yg bakal khlangan potensinya tp negara pun bakal tertinggal jauh dari potensi pasar internasional,