WhatsApp: The Most Frequently Used Social Media Platform for Information Sharing by the Public
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Indonesian society is quite "literate" in using social media. This has led to a number of social media platforms being frequently used in citizens' daily lives.
According to the *2021 Digital Literacy Status in Indonesia* report released by the Ministry of Communication and Informatics together with the Katadata Insight Center (KIC), WhatsApp is the most frequently used social media platform by Indonesians.
Specifically, 27.6% of respondents said they use WhatsApp very often and 52% said they use it often daily. Only 16.6% of respondents said they rarely use it, and 3.8% said they very rarely use the social media platform.
Next, Facebook is the second most frequently used social media platform by Indonesians. Specifically, 14.6% of respondents said they use it very often and 43.2% said they use it often.
TikTok is also frequently used by Indonesians. 13.1% of respondents said they use it very often and 42.8% said they use it often.
Meanwhile, the least frequently used social media platform in the survey was Line. Only 6.2% of respondents said they use it very often and 19% said they use it often.
This survey was conducted from October 4-24, 2021, using face-to-face interviews. The survey sample consisted of 10,000 respondents spread across 34 provinces, with criteria of being aged 13-70 years and having accessed the internet in the last 3 months.
The survey has a margin of error of approximately 0.98% at a 95% confidence level using multistage random sampling.
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