Google 'to open Indonesia office before 2012'

Google 'to open Indonesia office before 2012' - Google is planning a branch in Indonesia, as soon as it opened the country to tap a huge growth in Internet user sees, the office of the country's vice president said Friday.

The announcement came after talks between Eric Schmidt, chairman of the U.S. Internet giant met Vice President Boediono in Jakarta, said a spokesman.

Said, "held the Vice-President and chairman of a meeting of Google, where Google announced their interest to invest here and open a local office before 2012," the spokesman Hidayat Yopi Dow Jones Newswires.

However, he did not give an exact time frame for the opening.

Indonesia's population of more than 230 million only 40 million were connected to the Internet, so that the country an attractive market for Web companies.

A study by rival Google Yahoo! found that Indonesia is the largest and fastest-growing online market in Southeast Asia, with online experience growth of 48 percent in 2010, compared with 22 percent in 2009.

The country is also square with the majority of registered Facebook users third - after the U.S. and Britain - with more than 22 million users.

"They have been great Facebook and Twitter communities. You have to use Google already very high," he told reporters after the meeting.

"There are 50 million small businesses in Indonesia, I had no idea it was great. Those (small businesses) is the engine of economic growth to be the future," he added.

Google last Asia Business Development Director Emmanuel Sauquet years said that Indonesia had "come to the right place for us" because of its rapid economic growth.

Source : http://news.yahoo.com/google-open-indonesia-office-2012-152318101.html