Indonesia's general election will take place in 2014, but already one of the biggest political parties in the country, Golkar, has laid out its plan to utilize social media sites - such as its Facebook page - to win votes. As we have said many times, Indonesia ranks among the top social media countries in Asia, and indeed the world -- so it is understandable that Golkar will try to win over the nation’s netizens. Sharif Cicip Sutardjo, the Golkar deputy chairman, looked at potential voters between 25 and 45 years ...
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Jul 26 2011
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Zynga’s Chinese CityVille Coming to Tencent
Tencent gamers have news to be happy about today — Zynga’s CityVille is about to become available in simplified Chinese and will be hosted on Tencent’s Pengyou.com platform. The new localized initiative in China will be called Zynga City - a smart way to get Chinese gamers familiar with the Zynga brand. Other Tencent platforms like QZone will follow suit in the near future. Zynga's full announcement is below, but here’s an excerpt of how Zynga City will attempt to localize: Zynga city will include brand-new decorations and architecture the Chinese ...
Jul 26 2011
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Chinese Netizens Protest Google+ Real-Name Policy, as Users Get Booted
There are increasingly loud protests and pleas among Chinese users of Google Plus, Google's new social media site, that the real-name policy is endangering users who might want to speak openly, without fear of state persecution. As each day goes by, more Chinese users are getting deleted from G+ due to their usage of a nickname on the site. For some it's a habit carried over from their Tencent QQ profiles, but for others it's about having a degree of anonymity for safety's sake, to be able to engage in debates ...
Jul 28 2011
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Indonesia’s Telkomsel Brings Facebook App to Feature Phones
Here’s some good news for Indonesia’s many social networking fans. Telkomsel will put a tiny but fully-functioning Facebook app onto some of their SIM cards phones.* The Facebook-created application can be run on more than 800 types of JAVA-based mobile phones. With no need for an expensive smartphone, this tiny app works on more affordable local feature phones. The application is only 128kb, where Telkomsel customers will be able to enjoy this Facebook service just by accessing *252# on from their phones. Ririn Widaryani, Deputy Vice President of Lifecycle Management at Telkomsel, said: ...
Jul 23 2011
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Facebook Button Phones, The Next Big Thing in Indonesia
Android-powered phones with a dedicated Facebook button could be the next gadget Indonesians go gaga for. With over 38 million Facebook users in the country, social network addicts would surely love these phones. Within a span of ten days, HTC has brought in two ‘Facebook Phones’ to Indonesia: the ChaCha and most recently, the Salsa. And from the looks of things people are very enthused about the Salsa. As reported by Okezone yesterday, dozens of people are queuing as early as 8am in hope to be the first two hundred HTC Salsa ...
Jul 22 2011
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Google Chairman Eric Schmidt: Asia is the future, not the U.S
“Entrepreneurs never give up.” That’s the opening line Google chairman Eric Schmidt said in front of an Indonesian crowd at the start of his keynote in the Regional Entrepreneur Summit (RES) in Bali, Indonesia. Schmidt thinks that Indonesia can be the next Brazil. “Indonesia has grown so quickly… at a growth rate that Americans will die for,” said Schmidt. “You know what I mean.” Schmidt explained that Indonesia has a loud democracy, a flourishing society, and an integrated media. With so many people on Facebook and Twitter, Indonesia is indeed ...
Aug 19 2011
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Japan’s CyberAgent Continues Overseas Adventure With World Chef
Many of you may be familiar with CyberAgent’s Ameba Pigg (Pico) Virtual World, which after becoming popular in Japan was expanded globally via Facebook. CyberAgent claims a user base 3.5 million for Pico, which seems pretty good to me for an Asian company exploring foreign territory. Today the company announced a spin-off Facebook game of sorts called World Chef, which will allow users to play using their Ameba Pico avatar. The game is a culinary variant of Ameba Pico world, with the same look and feel, but this time challenging users ...
Aug 2 2011
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Indonesian President Warms Up To Social Media, But Still Some Resistance
An the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting last Tuesday, president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono stated: There is no government in the world that has all the answers to this new trend. ASEAN, too, must get into the act. We must be creative and open minded in harnessing the power of technology to promote people-to-people contact.” As we have reported previously, the president previously criticized the social media due to terrorism threats and slanderous news. But it seems he now realizes that at a broader level, the use of social media and other communication tools are ...
Aug 2 2011
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Indonesia’s Tifatul Sembiring: From Government Minister to Net Celeb
Fame is not always limited to just artists or musicians. Politicians - for better or worse - are often the center of attraction too. This is especially the case in today’s social media age, where the words and ideas of many political figures are often exposed raw to the world. Such fame has been attained by Tifatul Sembiring, the Indonesian Minister of Telecommunications and Information. Indonesia’s love/hate relationship with Tifatul is producing some interesting conversation in cyberspace recently. According to Famecount, Tifatul is ranked as number 24 on a list of ...
Aug 2 2011
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Drug Dealers Plead For Mercy Through Online Petition, Facebook, and Twitter
Due to the Internet having the power to form and move communities, people are now using the web as a tool to call for help and attract sympathy. That's what Australian lawyers are currently doing to help two Australian citizens, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, who were convicted of drug trafficking and have subsequently been sentenced to death by firing squad in Indonesia. They are starting an online movement titled the ‘Mercy Campaign’ for Andrew and Myuran. The two were arrested in 2005 in Bali with their group of drug smugglers, ...
Jul 19 2011
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Indonesian Gaming Publisher Puts Facebook Credits on Prepaid Cards
Lyto, Indonesia’s largest online gaming publisher, recently announced its partnership with Facebook and Live Gamer to provide a payment gateway for users in Indonesia. So if you can’t get enough of games like FarmVille, Football Saga or another Facebook game, you can purchase your virtual needs using Facebook Credits. This partnership enables people in Indonesia to purchase Facebook Credits through Lyto’s Game-On prepaid cards. There’s no need for credit cards or a Paypal account anymore. Just simply scratch the security code protector on the card and use the printed special code. ...
Jul 19 2011
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Train Accident Victims Identified with Facebook’s Help in India
Three dead bodies were identified by their family members when their photographs were uploaded onto Facebook by a government official. The Times of India reports that the people identified were said to be missing since the recent Kalka Mail (express train) accident in India in which over 80 people died near Kanpur, a city in North India. It seems that no one had contacted the government officials claiming the bodies and so the official used Facebook, to get the bodies identified quickly by family members. It must be noted that India ...
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