Translation Results Requested Through Conyac Made Public

Overall, the projected number of Internet users in Indonesia will reach 168 million by 2015, marking 70 percent of the entire Indonesian population. Though Indonesia adopted Twitter late in comparison to North America, it has become the third largest Tweet producer after Brazil and US since November 2010. It is understandable for a nation that also has the second largest Facebook users to easily dominate the internet market. We have seen a few Indonesian brands successfully use social media to maximize their marketing campaign such as XL Axiata, Rexona Men, and Dunia Cewe. Realizing this growing market, many businesses are redefining their marketing and customer servicing model by installing social media to be a part of their marketing campaign and by incorporating their Twitter handles and Facebook page to ads, billboards, and their sites. There are also a lot of social media meet ups, also known as kopdar in Indonesia, held almost every other day by the close-knit online communities to exchange experience, tips, and tricks from each other. All together, Indonesians love to share and have fun at the same time. To continue building and celebrating the Indonesian HootSuite community, we are working on translating the dashboard and mobile apps to Bahasa Indonesia. We are also listening to the user’s needs to closely find what features and integrations we can offer next.

HootSuite has also built great successes in other countries including bringing HootSuite to the popular Keitai phone in Japan and integrated the popular social network Orkut for the Brazilians.

So far, we’ve released Bahasa Indonesian for iPhone, Android and Blackberry – all of which are popular with Indonesian users – and we invite anyone to lend a hand to translate the web application via http://translate.hootsuite.com. What’s inside your To-Do List for Indonesia this year?

We see a great opportunity with Indonesia and have a local Indonesian “owl” currently traveling around Indonesia to host HootUps and to engage with the community, both online and offline.

Part of this includes sharing practical workshops as well as cultural activities like our Indonesian Owly stickers and fun HootSuite treats like playing cards, pins and masks.