Jokowi Meet Owner "Facebook", Mark Zuckerberg

On Monday morning (13^th October), Governor of Jakarta, Indonesia, Joko Widodo (Jokowi) received a visit from the creator and owner of social media, Facebook up from the United States, Mark Zuckerberg. They met at Jakarta City Hall. Zuckerberg came to City Hall at around 8:55 pm, he was immediately accepted by Jokowi and was shown into the room. Zuckerberg's arrival was a series of Internet.org campaign.

The meeting lasted approximately 30 minutes. Jokowi and Zuckerberg looked wearing the same black suit. Both are largely discusses the development and benefits up to the development of Indonesia. They spoke of how to utilize Facebook to be useful for the community and economic benefits in order to move the small micro enterprises. Jokowi said that Mark would help to cooperate with Indonesia in the framework of these two things. In addition, the issue of taxes and internet access were also discussed in the meeting. Although talks have not done in more depth again.

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They talked very much about the use of Facebook during the campaign. Indonesia has a large population, to 240 million peoples, 70 million of them are Facebook users. That is, the Internet is a potential market and also a good opportunity that could be used to provoke better governance.

Jokowi also convey to Zuckerberg that there are benefits gained from social media, such as Facebook are real to the state and society. Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg expressed himself very happy to come visit Indonesia and meet with elected RI president, Jokowi. Furthermore, Zuckerberg also said he was happy to see the growth of Internet access by millions of people in Indonesia as well as business growth.

Earlier, Commissioner of PT Owen Strategic Media, Maria Tiurma, who was invite Zuckerberg said his company in order to introduce a global initiative on Internet.org. The program aims to reduce the barriers to citizen access to the Internet, so expect Indonesian citizens who are connected to the Internet is increasing.

Mary deliver, Zuckerberg delivered a few things in his meeting with Jokowi. In addition to congratulate him on his election as president Jokowi, he also mentioned the use of Facebook applications in the democratic process in Indonesia. He expressed his intention to continue to support the Facebook to the elected president Jokowi in governance and public aspiration with affordable Internet access solution.