With 64 Million Monthly Facebook Users in Indonesia, Is it Opening an Office Soon?

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Indonesia has been in the top five countries in terms of Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) users for quite a while, and we’ve been hearing rumors that the California-based company is gearing up to open an office in Indonesia later this year. In that regard we spoke with Charlene Chian, Facebook’s head of communications for Asia-Pacific, to see if the rumor is true.

Before we get to the answer, Charlene reveals to us that Facebook now has 64 million monthly active users in Indonesia. We also heard from Dan Neary, Facebook VP for Asia-Pacific, at the recent IDByte conference that the company has identified Indonesia as one of the key countries to help Facebook reach the next billion in its user-base. Charlene helps explain how they plan to reach out to more users in Indonesia:

Given that Indonesia is one of our top five countries with most users (as of October 2012), we are definitely looking at how we can help Indonesians be able to benefit more from our platform. For a start, we are looking at working closer with digital media agencies through creative workshops to help them gain better skills and knowledge to better help their clients.

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In the end, after understanding that Indonesia is a key component to Facebook’s plans, we asked if they plan to set up an office here. Sadly, she says, “No, we currently have no plans to set up an office in Indonesia.” That answer leaves Indonesia as the only country in the top five Facebook user-base not to have an office.