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<h4 style="text-align: justify;">Humbler and quieter than the flashier economic stars of China and India, Indonesia offers spectacular opportunities for tech investors wanting to get in on the ground level of an economy that is expected to exceed the size of Germany and the UK within two decades. Indonesia is already one of the world’s top five markets in mobile subscribers, Facebook users, Twitter users and mobile ads, yet we still believe it can deliver a number of surprises on the upside. And with a burgeoning middle class and an average age of 28, its highly favourable long-term demographics mean that tech opportunities will abound.</h4>
<h5 style="text-align: justify;"><b>Rapid growth driven by strong fundamentals</b></h5>
<p style="text-align: justify;">By any measures, all the tech numbers for Indonesia look good: its base of 55 million internet users today (larger than Korea’s) will grow rapidly to 125 million users by 2015 (more than Japan’s). And in parallel with this expansion, everything from e-commerce to online media to B2B applications will grow rapidly.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This growth is driven by one of the world’s most vibrant mobile markets: Indonesia’s huge and growing mobile market now has 278 million subscribers, 15% of mobile users already have smartphones, and the mobile ad market delivered around 200 <i>billion</i> impressions last year, second only to the US. On top of this, Indonesia is in the top five countries for both Facebook and Twitter usage, as well as having the world’s most active Twitter city, Jakarta.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Sitting behind all these numbers is a well-managed economy whose growth from 2012-2107 will only be exceeded by China among the world’s major economies. Indeed, over the past decade or so, the Indonesian economy has been so robust that it sailed through the 2008 financial crisis with barely a blip on growth.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But these numbers – while hugely positive in themselves – sit on top of a far more exciting story: Indonesia’s internet market is likely to offer some of the biggest opportunities for tech investors in Asia over the coming decade.</p>

<h5 style="text-align: justify;"><b>A huge consumer market with step-change growth spurts</b></h5>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Indonesia’s middle-class is already big, and it's booming. It will double over the next seven years to 85 million people, and by 2030 there will be 135 million middle-class consumers. At that point, Indonesia’s economy will be the 7th largest in the world, exceeding the economies of both Germany and the UK.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And to put the size of today's Indonesia into perspective, its dynamic, fast-growing capital Jakarta has a population and GDP equivalent to that of the whole of Malaysia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But this expansion of the middle-class is only half the story – the other half is technology affordability. Indonesia is a young, tech-savvy nation, full of people who are extremely enthusiastic to own and use the latest gadgets and technologies. The main barrier to ownership is not interest or desire, it is price.</p>
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