According to a report by the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), there were around 258 million active mobile phone subscriptions in Indonesia as of the end of 2016. This corresponds to a penetration rate of around 115 percent, which is significantly higher than the global average of around 73 percent.
The majority of mobile phone users in Indonesia are using prepaid SIM cards, which accounted for around 97 percent of all subscriptions in 2016. This is in …