Internet for Development? Patterns of use among Internet café customers in Indonesia

摘要: Internet cafes are important for people's access to the in poor countries. These venues offer a potential gateway valuable information, meaningful communication, and political participation ordinary citizens. They may also represent possible threat traditions cultural values. In this paper, we analyse use of among cafe customers city Yogyakarta, Indonesia. A main objective is assess importance human resource development. Three categories identified, namely instrumental, recreational. The two first mentioned by far most our sample. Those who mainly instrumental purposes, i.e. seeking reading online news, research, generally older more highly educated with higher personal financial capability. This fact points direction increased individual usefulness over time.