Apple previously sold directly to Indonesia residents via its website as recently as late 2010, when it shut those sales down and began selling through local, authorized third-party dealers instead.

The Investment Coordinating Board also tells NZWeek that a physical Apple Store in Jakarta won’t be far behind:

Azhar Lubis, deputy chairman of BKPM said Apple will open its store in Indonesia’s capital city, Jakarta. “The investment is worth around $2-3 million,” he said.

The Next Web notes that Apple had been advertising for several key positions for its Indonesian operations in summer 2012.

Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment on this story.

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Those access points will be used to shunt traffic off of Telkom’s cellular data networks, greatly increasing their overall capacity. Cisco said that these access points will be Passpoint certified, which means customers will be able to automatically connect and authenticate to them whenever they’re in range.

That network is big, but it’s actually the second network of its size in Asia. Last year Japan’s KDDI deployed a 100,000-node network using Ruckus Wireless gear. Though the networks are the same size, Telkom has a lot more ground to cover. It has 22.8 million residential customers (using either wireline or fixed wireless access technologies) and 107 million wireless customers spread across the sprawling archipelago nation. That means it will have a Wi-Fi node for every 1,000 mobile customers.

KDDI is a smaller operator, with about 40 million customers, meaning there’s an access point for about 400 customers. But compared to other global Wi-Fi deployments, both operators are being very aggressive. In the U.S., AT&T has been the most pro-Wi-Fi mobile carrier, and it has a hotspot for every 4000 subscribers. In some cases, though, AT&T has deployed multiple access points in hotspot clusters so its density is higher.

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That, as TechBerlin neatly spotted today, is exactly what the Samwer brothers’ operation has just done. The site’s called Lazada and it’s now open for business in Indonesia, selling… well, pretty much what Amazon sells.

A job ad that went up on Monday for a senior HR manager confirms it’s a Rocket enterprise, while describing the parent company in a way that almost rings true:

Our team comprises of highly entrepreneurial individuals from the best business schools and companies around the world. This is an incredibly rare opportunity to work for a highly reputed international company, which offers you a challenging, but also fun working atmosphere.

The first bit sounds right, but what comes afterwards depends on your definition of “highly reputed” and “fun.” I don’t know, is being told to sign your business plans in blood fun? Maybe for some.

TechBerlin pegs ex-McKinsey man Maximilian Bittner as Lazada’s CEO, which squares up with a recent edit to his LinkedIn profile. And, since you ask, Amazon is not currently itself operational in Indonesia.

I’ve asked both Rocket and Amazon for comment, and will of course let you know when they get back to me.

Update: Turns out Lazada’s also operational in Egypt and the Gulf states, the Philippines and Thailand, and will soon open in Malaysia. And not only that, but Rocket’s also given birth to another Zappos-esque outfit in South East Asia — this time called not Zalando, but Zalora. They sure like their Zs. Did I mention they have a heavy focus on execution?

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