Analysis 3

Indonesia

I chose to compare Indonesia to India, because although India is much larger than Indonesia in population and square miles, it is indeed the next largest country by population after the United States. I also thought it would be interesting to compare Indonesia to another country Asia to see the differences and similarities that can be recognized between countries that are geographically closer to one another. I also chose to compare Indonesia to Brazil, because these two countries are very similar in size, but they differ more drastically geographically. I thought it would not only be interesting to see the differences between Indonesia and each of these countries, but also interesting to compare the comparisons because one of closer to home and much larger and the other is farther away but much similar in population. Indonesia India Brazil
Population 258 million 1.31 billion 208 million Government Republic Federal republic Federal republic GDP per capita $3,346.49 $1,581.59 $8,538.59 Pop density (people/sq. mile) 142.2 441 24.87 Rural pop 46.26% 67.25% 14.31% Urban pop 53% 32% 86% Adult literacy rate 95.44% 72.23% 92.59% Internet users (per 100 people) 21.98 26 59.08 Internet servers (per 1 mil people) 6 6 69 Mobile subscriptions (per 100 people) 132 79 127 Info & comm tech spending (US$) $17.47 billion 52.35 billion 73.05 billion Households with TV 65.38% 32% 90.9% There are a few interesting observations that can be made from these compared statistics. We can draw from these statistics that there are clear connections between a country's GDP, media use and literacy. When looking at India, you can see that with the greatest population and population density, it is the country that has the greatest rural population and seems to lag behind in terms of adult literacy rate and technology purchases and used. While in Brazil, with a significantly higher GDP per capita, they spend more money on information and communication technology. Another stat that cannot be ignored along with this is their adult literacy rate is also higher than the other two countries who spend less. Indonesia seems to have a bit of a different situation where they have a higher GDP than India, but they actually spent less on information and communication technology, they have fewer internet users, but they have significantly more mobile subscriptions and household TVs. However, in contrast to the other observation, Indonesia has the highest adult literacy rate out of all of them. Some explanations for this could be that they have other means of educating their youth, possibly by making more use of television and phones for purposes of education.

Analysis 1:
Indonesia’s Distinctive Media, Arts and Cultural Environments

Analysis 2: Indonesia’s Media Power, Rifts, and Freedom

Analysis 4:
Indonesia Communicating to the World