Indonesian Languages Diversity on the Internet

Abstract. The paper gives an overview and evaluation of language resources of Asian languages, in particular of Indonesian official and local languages that are currently used on the Internet. We have collected over 100 million of Asian web pages downloaded from 43 Asian country domains, and analyzed language properties of them. The presence of a language is measured primarily by number of pages written in each language. Through the survey, it is revealed that the digital language divide does exist at serious level in the region, and the state of multilingualism and the dominating presence of cross-border languages, English in particular, are analyzed. From this survey as well, the diversity of Indonesian official and local languages on the Internet is observed