BlackBerry's annus horribilis in Indonesia

Few companies better understand the difficulties of doing business in Indonesia than BlackBerry maker Research In Motion. The government has had the Canada-based company jumping through hoops for most of the past year, repeatedly threatening to shut down its services unless it met a list of demands not required of its competitors. For RIM, trouble in Indonesia is particularly Painful as the country is the world's fasted rowing major BlackBerry market, according to industry statistics.Subscriptions are expected to almost double from five million to 9.7 million by 2015, RIM says, as sales elsewhere tumble. Demand is driven by Indonesia's burgeoning middle class, drawn to the BlackBerry for affordable access to the Internet and widely used BlackBerry Messenger testing service.Indonesia, Southeast Asia's most-populous nation of around 240 million people, is also the region's biggest economy and is forecast to have grown 6.5 percent in 2011.Indonesians are some of the world's most active users of social network sites.Of 41 countries surveyed, it had the highest percentage of Internet users accessing Twitter in June 2010, or more than 20 percent of its 45 million online population, online research firm com score said.