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As expected, YouTube (and Google) force the mobile broadband issue.

Indonesia Internet and Mobile usage summary and market outlook.

Indonesia internet usage breakdown and 2009 e-commerce and broadband summary.

ASEAN have revealed their "ICT Masterplan" which includes provisions to create its own regional Internet exchange, complete with an "ASEAN broadband corridor linking key cities in the region". The ICT Masterplan also lays out a framework to increase access to affordable technologies, encourage and train Southeast Asian residents in ICT jobs, and other cross-country initiatives that help bridge the digital divide both between countries and within countries.

Being made up of islands, wireless coverage appeals more to the country than creating a fixed network, and most mobile carriers are offering their own wireless Internet flavors that range from USB broadband dongles to the more recently available portable WiFi hubs. WiMax is fully implemented, yet still has insufficient coverage in hard-to-reach areas, and the telcos are already at the LTE testing stage. Users' Internet connectivity is seen to be booming at a growth spurt of 61.74% since 2009, placing it in second place internationally.

Looking at this it might make sense why some websites are seemingly so slow. For example, if you are in Indonesia accessing a site hosted in Texas in the US, you can see how many hops there are. Or do a trace-route command on a website to see the actual number of hops to get to that site.