As of today, Coinciding with the launching of Nokia Lumia series, Windows Phone Marketplace Indonesia is officially go live. Apart of being directly accessed using Windows Phone (by choosing Indonesia region first), we could also take a look of what is it inside Marketplace throught its site, either for app or games. The frontpage however is still not fully translated from Spanish.
I had a chance to try Marketplace Indonesia few days back during limited preview of Lumia and found out it still lacks of popular apps, like Twitter, Facebook or Twitter. It’s supposed that every Windows Phone owner in Indonesia able to set their marketplace to Indonesia region and easily download the apps and games. For paid apps, the purchase is available using credit card. Hopefully, in near future there will be cooperation with telecom operators so that users may opt for operator billing as their primary payment. The latter method is preferred because the possession of credit card in Indonesia is still somewhat limited.
Nokia Lumia series contain several pre-loaded local apps, namely Planetix, Movreak and DailySocial. Other than that, Windows Phone users surely will be able to download and purchase several other local apps, like Kompas, Kompas TV, detikcom, and some couple apps made by Radya Labs, a dedicated local Windows Phone developer team.
