Google's Investment Potential of Young People Dig Indonesia

United States Government to encourage investment in Indonesia assessed Google will increase the potential of youth Indonesia. Google's investment could help develop human resource potential of Indonesia.

"Can you imagine if Google will become the largest investor in Indonesia, what does that mean? Indonesia are not only exporting palm oil, coal, and oil and gas, but also exports the power of young children Indonesia," said Charge d'Affaires Embassy of the United States to Indonesia, Ted Osius, in Jakarta, Wednesday (27/07/2011).

Why is that? According to him, the potential of youth Indonesia can be seen from the position of Indonesia as an electronic social media users, such as Facebook and Yahoo. "This is because Indonesia has been quite famous for its position as the second largest user of Facebook, and the third number for the Twitter world," he added.

"There is a large undeveloped talent in the industry of information technology (IT). And companies like Google, Facebook, and Yahoo want to come here and develop these talents," he said. With this potential, he added, the company Google, Facebook, and Yahoo also expressed interest in investing in Indonesia.

However, he regretted that a large corporate interests are hampered by government regulation is also the readiness of the infrastructure is not fully supported. The obligation to build data centers as it mentioned the U.S. government regarded as a strange regulations. Inadequate supply of electricity were also a concern if the data center must be built in Indonesia.
source: kompas.com