First launched for Singapore, BuUuk, a free iPhone app, will soon allow iPhone 3G users in Indonesia to collectively rate a restaurant in Jakarta and Bali.

CORP TALK: Looks like all five countries HWM is in (Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines) will finally see the Apple iPhone 3G officially being launched and made available to all. Indonesia’s Telkomsel will be launching the phone on the same day as Malaysia’s Maxis (as announced a few days ago), completing the much documented and final official push of the iPhone 3G (and its highly attractive App Store) into the region. 

The Indonesian launch will be held at Pacific Place South Pavilion, Jakarta and customers can buy the iPhone 3G during the launch period over three days starting from 10pm on 20 March 2009.

One-year service plans include the cost of the iPhone 3G with the lowest being 2,622K rupiah (US$219) for the 8GB to the highest being 5,912K rupiah (US$493) for the 16GB. Subscription plans, which offer free data capacity of either 500MB or 1GB with different free talktime minutes and SMS, would then cost between 354K rupiah (US$30) and 733K rupiah (US$61) per month.

Customers who registered with Telkomsel before 5pm on 13 March 2009 will be able to enjoy service priority and iPhone 3G reservation during the event. On their website, Telkomsel also listed the 25 cities in Indonesia where the iPhone 3G will be available.

Besides the usual App Store goodies which users will access and upload to their iPhone 3G via their iTunes (on PC or Mac), Telkomsel will also make available localized content at launch. It has listed these on its site:

• 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 (Entertainment & Lifestyle website)
• Macetlagi.com (Traffic monitoring portal and content streaming)
• Kompas (Daily Indonesian news)