TransJakarta’s features include:

• All 8 lines of TransJakarta available. Double-tap or pinch to zoom in and out.
• Complete listings of all stops with newly-released Google Maps of Jakarta.
• Easily switch the direction of the routes.
• Live updates on new stops, new corridors and new maps.
• Coming soon: Tweets from TransJakarta passengers.

Jakarta Globe app will offer:

• Simple navigational menu with City, National, Business, Sports, Opinion and Life sections.
• Customize the menu bar.
• Store the articles you like on the “Favorites” page.
• Email articles to friends.
• Read stories in portrait view or turn for landscape viewing.
• Remembers your last viewed title for instant checking.
• Small memory footprint to conserve battery life.

BuUuk features include:

• Over 800 listings for Jakarta, Bali and Surabaya and over 4500 for Singapore.
• Use location-based navigation to find food and drink near you.
• Search by cuisine, location and rating.
• Leave ratings and reviews.
• Have your reviews and ratings sent to your Twitter account.
• View your location and the restaurant’s location on a map.
• View offers for free and discounted food and drinks at the hottest places in town.

Regarding the Tranjakarta app, according to Mark Hanusz of Equinox Apps, they are using static maps instead of pulling them from Google. “Too slow,” he said  in an e-mail correspondence.

Ah, yes. Love to know that Equinox also included Twitter-things in their apps :-)

You can download these apps from iTunes App Store for free: TransJakarta, Jakarta Globe and buUuk.

Opening Hours at Pacific Place, new entrance at the South Pavilion :

March 20:  8:00PM – Midnight
March 21: 10:00AM – 10:00PM
March 22: 10:00 AM – 10:00PM

Starting Monday (March 23), the Apple’s device will also be available from official distributors across the wider Jakarta area, while the country’s biggest operator will roll out sales nationwide from Saturday March 28 (please check-out www.telkomsel.com/iphone/wheretobuy).

Here is the Telkomsel iPhone pricing plan (please note: US$1 = IDR12,000):

Telkomsel will offer a number of local iPhone apps which can be downloaded for free for a limited time from the Apple App store. These local apps include: TransJakarta (Jakarta busway information), Aphrodite (world sport schedule), Jakarta Globe (daily English news), BuUuk (recommended culinary places in Jakarta and Bali), Foyage (local city map), Detikcom (news), Angklung (music), SCTV (national TV), Kapanlagi.com (lifestyle and entertaiment site), Macetlagi.com (traffic monitoring portal and content streaming) and Kompas (daily Indonesian news).

[via 3GWeek, Telkomsel press release]

The price, according to 3GWeek, will touch more than IDR 10 million, roughly equals to US$ 900 (1 US$ = IDR 12,000). According to a local blog Ndorokakung,  with IDR2.5 million upfront plus IDR750,000 monthly installment for 18 months,  users can bring their 8 GB iPhone 3G home.

The country’s first operator to launch 3G services in September 2006 had 67 million customers or more than 50% market share.  The operator had the biggest 3G community with more than 6.2 million subscribers in more than 120 cities.

Indonesia’s largest full-service telecommunications operator, Telkom and SingTel, one of Asia’s leading telecommunications service operators, owns 65%  and 35% of Telkomsel’s issued share capital.

[via 3Gweek]

Previously, 3Gweek reported that Apple most likely has inked the agreement with Telkomsel, the country’s largest operator, to distribute the iPhone 3G in Indonesia.

Indonesia, the 5th largest country in the world in term of population, has more than 120 million cellular subscribers.

So far, Indonesia itself isn’t appeared yet in the iPhone country list.

UPDATE (1):Telkomsel accepting seemingly employee-only preorders for iPhone 3G in Indonesia through its site:  http://www.telkomsel.com/tridentclm/ (Thanks, @aulia!)

UPDATE (2):Telkomsel Manager Corporate Communications, Suryo Hadiyanto, just informed me the offiicial URL for iPhone 3G preorder: http://www.telkomsel.com/iphone — just need KTP (no need NIK CSDM!)

UPDATE (3):Indonesia is now listed in “Now Available” of iPhone’s countries list .