Internet Usage seems not to be easy to determine. Statistics vary a lot, perhaps depending on how usage is defined and the data collected. Do you count only the number of subscriptions? How about all the people sharing internet accesss in an office or in a internet café?

For example, Internet World Stats claims there were

2,000,000 Internet Users in 2000 and
20,000,000 Internet Users in 2007

in Indonesia.

That makes for a 8.9 % penetration and a use growth of 900.0 % between 2000 and 2007.


PT Insan Komunikasi, on the other hand, comes up with only

393,670 Users in 2000
and 739,571 Users in 2003 (more recent data not available)

at a growth rate of 23%

Hmmm.... neither of the sites state in detail how the data is obtained. I wonder where I can get reallly reliable stats?