The Internet is becoming an increasingly vital tool in Indonesian information society. More and more "Indonesian" are going to conduct such day-to-day activities as education, business transactions, personal correspondence, researches and information gathering and job searches. Each year, being digitally connected becomes ever more critical to economic and educational advancement and community participation. Now that a "piece" number of Indonesian regularly use the Internet to conduct daily activities, people who lack access tools are at a growing disadvantage. Yet even as the Internet races ambitiously toward critical mass, some social scientist and experts are beginning to examine carefully the policy implications of current demographic and geographic pattern of Internet access and usage in Indonesia. In the meantime the Indonesian Government may likely declare universal access for approximately 190 million people with country performance is becoming even more marginal - ironic!
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