Social media giant Facebook opened its office in Indonesia on Monday, after years of operating in the country. Facebook Indonesia country director Sri Widowati invited journalists for a tour of the office in South Jakarta.

“With the opening of our office here, we want to show our commitment to what we have done so far in Indonesia,” Sri said.

Indonesia is home to the world’s largest number of Facebook users, with about 115 million connecting to the social media platform every month, according to the company’s July data.

The figure is a 40 per cent increase from March last year, which reached 82 million, Sri added. Meanwhile, Indonesia’s daily number of Facebook users currently stands at 65 million.

Sri added that the company had established a representative office in the country in 2014. She declined to elaborate on whether the new office was part of the company’s efforts to become a permanent business entity, which is required by the government in order to legally operate in the country.

“As a company, we respect the regulations of every country in which Facebook operates,” she said, declining to specify the legal and fiscal steps the company had taken to open the office.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/Startup_and_IT/30323833