Twitter has appointed Roy Simangunsong as the company’s country business head in Indonesia.
“It’s my first day at work, so there’s no strategy to apply yet, but what is important for the audiences and advertisers are my confidence in running and developing this company. Because, at the end of the day, Twitter wouldn’t want us to innovate on things that disrupt the users’ experience,” said Roy as quoted by Antara news agency on Tuesday.
Indonesia has around 80 million Internet users, according to Roy, and around 150 million smartphone subscribers and almost 80 percent of Twitter users worldwide access the application from their mobile phones.
Prior to Roy, the business head position had been held by Rick Mulia from November 2014. Rick resigned in June, leaving the position vacant for two months.
Roy was previously the country business head at Yahoo! Indonesia and other multinational companies like Microsoft and IBM. His last position before becoming Twitter Indonesia’s number one person was chief executive officer for Okezone digital media company.
