Indonesia's president-elect Joko Widodo has met Facebook chief executive and founder Mark Zuckerberg in the country's capital of Jakarta to discuss ways the social network can contribute to his country's economy.Indonesia, which has a population of more than 250 million people, is one of the top five global users of social media.
Jakarta's citizens are considered the most active users of the social media site Twitter.
Mr Widodo, who is also known as Jokowi, asked Mr Zuckerberg to help promote Indonesia's small businesses.
"We talked about Facebook users in Indonesia and how to use Facebook to push micro-economy," Mr Widodo told reporters after their meeting on Monday.
"He said he was ready to work with the government.
"There are 70 million Facebook users in Indonesia, which provides great market potential, but I told him that [Indonesia] should also benefit [from the platform]."
According to the World Bank, less than 16 per cent of Indonesians use the internet, but that figure is more than double what it was five years ago.
Mr Zuckerberg is using his trip to Indonesia to promote Internet.org, a Facebook-led project aimed at boosting internet access around the world.
The 30-year-old billionaire said improving internet connectivity could help to "transform the economy".
"When we think about which countries to focus on with Internet.org and Facebook [we consider] how many people can use the services and also how much better and stronger the economy can be if everyone's on the internet," Mr Zuckerberg said.
"Here I think there are 150 million or 200 million people who don't have access to the internet and unlocking that can transform the economy, can help create jobs and help small businesses grow.
"There's a lot of data that suggests that business that use the internet to communicate with customers grow twice the speed of small businesses that don't use internet."
Mr Widodo, who used social media in his political campaign, will be sworn into office next week.
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