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WhatsApp appears to be the most frequently used social media application by Indonesians on a daily basis.
This is recorded in the *2021 Indonesia Digital Literacy Status Report* released by the Ministry of Communication and Informatics together with the Katadata Insight Center (KIC).
Of the 10,000 respondents surveyed, 72.5% used WhatsApp for more than 2 hours/day.
The breakdown is as follows: 15.9% used WhatsApp for more than 8 hours/day, 16.3% for 5-8 hours/day, and 40.3% for 2-5 hours/day.
Other social media applications, in general, were accessed for shorter periods, as detailed in the graph.
Facebook, for example, is used by a majority (58.6%) of its users for less than 2 hours/day.
Furthermore, 75.5% of respondents used Line for less than 2 hours/day, 73.3% used Twitter, 69.9% used Telegram, 57.6% used Instagram, 54.9% used YouTube, and 52.6% used TikTok.
The survey was conducted on 10,000 respondents spread across Indonesia in October 2021. Respondents were aged between 13-70 years and had accessed the internet within the last 3 months.
The survey method used was multistage random sampling with a home visit technique in the survey area. The margin of error of this survey is approximately 0.98% at a 95% confidence level.
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