Nadine Freischlad · · 1 min readHello Indonesia! Twitter officially opens its Jakarta office
It’s official: Twitter has arrived in Jakarta and opened an office space in the 15th floor of the One Pacific Place office building, SCBD, Jakarta. In November 2014 at our Tech in Asia Jakarta 2014 conference, Rick Mulia, head of business development for Twitter in Indonesia, announced that Twitter would open a local office by early 2015. It seems today he’s made good on that promise.
Unsurprisingly, the news first broke via Twitter when the official account of Twitter Indonesia, @TwitterID, sent out its first tweet to the world, Indonesia-style.
Selamat Pagi! @RickMulia sedang makan Nasi Bogana dengan kabar baik – Kantor Twitter hadir di Indonesia! #AwalBaru pic.twitter.com/cLPoJYZ118
— Twitter Indonesia (@TwitterID) March 5, 2015
“Good morning! @RickMulia is having a Rice Bogana dish while bringing you this good news – Indonesia now has a Twitter office! #NewBeginnings”
The opening was confirmed with a photo of the space from the Twitter account @justmaul which belongs to Maulana Nurhadi. Nurhadi is Twitter’s campaign manager for Southeast Asia.
Teman, please spread the words. Now we are officially open in Indonesia! @TwitterID pic.twitter.com/2lnMvSQFFi
— Maulana Nurhadi (@justmaul) March 5, 2015
With this move, Twitter has become the second social media network giant after Facebook to set up shop in Indonesia. Facebook opened an office in Jakarta in March last year.
Beyond that, the private social network Path is also due to open an office in Indonesia soon, having appointed William Tunggaldjaja as country manager.
Editing by Leighton Cosseboom and Jeff Quigley, images from Rick Mulia and Maulana Nurhadi
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