Opera in its April 2011 Opera Mini access statistic, focused on social media websites access, shows clear fact that Indonesia is “Facebook Republic”. A total of 77% Opera Mini users access Facebook.com, and its equal with 69% page views total by Indonesian Opera Mini users. The number is also equal with Philippines and is the largest percentage in the world for social media statistic.
However there are some countries where Facebook isn’t dominating. In Brazil. 40% users access Google’s orkut.com. In Uni Soviet’s ex nations vkontakte.ru dominates the statistic by 47% in Russia and 11% in Kazakhstan. Lesser number went to renren.com in China (4%) and zing.vn in Vietnam (9%)
As for Indonesia despite 3% decline on page views rate compared to April 2010, there’s a rise of 41.9% for unique users on the same period. The statistic said that in general every users access 477 page with average data transferred of 5MB per user.
Other than Facebook.com, a number of websites that keep appearing dominated Top 10 access, with detik.com and vivanews.com as two local sites. Detik managed to grab third position after Facebook and Google, while Vivanews grabbed the 10th position. Twiiter.com grabbed 5th position. As for Opera users’ Top 10 Handset, all dominated by Nokia with their Nokia 5130 XpressMusic on top of the list, followed by Nokia C3 and Nokia 2700c.
In total, Indonesia still becomes the second largest users in the world after Russia. Generally, statistic in Indonesia is still similar with Philippines, although in here Friendster is no longer in the Top 10 Accessed Websites. In Philippines, Friendster still occupies 5th position.
Indonesia at the moment is the second largest Facebook access after USA. At the moment, approximately 50 million people in Indonesia estimated as Internet users with cell phone penetration reached 180 million customers.
