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| A man opens Facebook on his laptop at a coffee shop in Jakarta. — Afp pic |
JAKARTA, Jan 5 — Indonesia, a developing Muslim nation which claims the world’s third-largest community of Facebook users, has become a showcase for the social networking site’s global power and reach.
Facebook has broken technological and social barriers to connect 40 million users in the sprawling Indonesian archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, some without even landline connections.
Its remarkable ascent has for many users rendered the rest of the Internet obsolete, as well as attracted allegations that it is responsible for encouraging pornography, premarital sex and adultery.
For many Indonesians, ‘Fesbuk’ is the only Internet
