Bottom Up Indonesian Internet Infrastructure

1. Bottom Up Indonesian Internet Infrastructure Onno W. Purbo Onno@indo.net.id Independent IT Writer

2. Important Key Factor • Human • Community • Society • NOT Technology • NOT $$$

3. Overview • Commercial ISP Development • Historical View & Tech. Aspects • Internet Community Development • Major Achievements • No backup from World Bank, IMF, ADB • Bottom-up Community based Sustainable development

4. Key Strategies • Human factor is the most important KEY. • Provide Free Education to the Society • Copyleft & Copywrong movement • Free? How about the reward? • God provides reward in unimaginable ways.

5. Society Education Process

6. Commercial ISPs • APJII = Indonesian ISP Association • http://www.apjii.or.id • IndoNet • the first Indonesian commercial ISP in 1994.

7. APJII Membership • 150+ Principal License Holder • 80 Member APJII • 40+ active in providing services • 100+ cities, all provinces • Common Facilities • APJII IIX • APJII IDNIC • Domain Registration & NIR (APNIC)

8. Principal & Operational License

9. Subscriber Distribution

10. Targeted Total Indonesian Internet Users

11. Indonesia Internet Exchange GLOBAL INTERNET ISP ISP APJII – IIX (GCC TELKOM)

12. Some grassroots movements • Internet Café • High Speed Wireless Internet (11-54Mbps)

13. Indonesian Internet Cafes • 2000+ Internet Cafes • Mostly self-finance • Hangout at asosiasi-warnet@yahoogroups.com • Fight for expanding own network & concept towards community based network.

14. Indonesian Wireless Internet • Close to 1000 corporate users • Uses 11Mbps (soon 54Mbps) wireless connection • 2.4GHz (soon at 5-5.8GHz) • Hangout indowli@yahoogroups.com • Fight for free frequency license

15. Historical View • Social (human) Aspects • Technological Aspects

16. Network Topology: Jan 1993

17. Homebrew Radio Modem

21. Software & PC based • 286 & e-mail only • Freeware network operating system (NOS) • Downloadable from ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/hamradio/packet/

22. CA*net3 AI3 Indonesia: 1997 STARTAP WIDE TransPAC AI3 S-One / SingaREN APAN vBNS AI3 Indonesia IIX

23. Current Technology Push • Wireless Internet 11-54Mbps • Estimated cost US$150 / unit • Unlicensed band 2.4Ghz, 5-5.8GHz • Build own network, no Telco!

24. Wireless 11Mbps PCI Card

25. 2.4Ghz Ant.

26. Success Factor • Community based development. • Human Resource Development • Culture! • Shifting mind set! • Self-financing. • Human is the key factor!

31. Access Behaviour • Source: Adi Nugroho adi@internux.co.id • 50% Internet Café in Makassar, Sulawesi • 20-27 January 2002.

32. Logged Access Sites in Makassar

33. Access Behaviour • Search engine & webmail are the the most accessed site. • News & online media are next. • Indonesian pornograhics site is next in the row (not much). • 2.98% users normally mistype the URL. • Yahoo.com & its family is the most (13%) accessed site.

34. Indonesian Internet Communities • http://www.yahoogroups.com • http://groups.yahoo.com • http://groups.plasa.com • Survey done at yahoogroups.com

35. Historical Perspective • ’90: Indonesians@jamus.berkeley.edu • ’96: Mailing-lists@itb.ac.id • ’99: Mailing-lists@yahoogroups.com

36. Evaluate yahoogroups.com • 45.000+ indonesian mailing lists • Mostly <100 subscribers • Evaluate only >100 subscribers

40. Evaluation

41. Mailing lists

42. Subscribers

43. Messages in 2001

44. Activeness (msg/subs/month)

45. Bandwidth (Kbps)